echinocorys ex. gr. scutata is one of the most important echinids in the upper cretaceous deposits. in this regard, a stratigraphic section of the farokhi formation in the central iran is sampled. this formation is less known and described in the geology of iran. according to the macropaleontological investigations, 1 genus and 1 specious of completely silicified echinocorythidae are determined...

Three teeth of the shark Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) from the Guinea Corn Formation (Central Inlier) represent the first recorded occurrence of fossil sharks from Cretaceous rocks of Jamaica. This occurrence increases the known palaeogeographical distribution of S. serrata, which appears to have been global. This species is largely known from the Upper Maastrichtian, which helps confirm the ...

As a tool for exploration of concealed coal seams by modern techniques, determination of the depth of erosion of coal seams with reference to the surface of angular unconformity underlying the remnants of a key bed is conducted for the first time in coal mines of Kerman region. The angular unconformity surface (the initial surface exposure of coal seams) separates the coal seams of Jurassic age...

koopan regional laterites located in north east of shiraz, fars province.the rock strata, koopan laterits set on neyriz ophiolites that these ophiolites are actually part of a series zagros ophiolite with of upper cretaceous age. these laterites are covered with nummulitic limestone equivalent jahrom formation with eocene age. the lateritization should be occurred after the upper cretaceous in ...

Recent geological and paleontological exploration in the Pab Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Balochistan Province has uncovered new terrestrial vertebrate remains. Together with Cretaceous vertebrates from India, the Pab vertebrates provide information about the paleobiogeographic history of Indo-Pakistan during its northward migration towards Asia. Vertebrate remains collected from several loc...

From the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber, the first known genera of Tingidae, Spinitingis n. gen. and Burmacader n. gen. with the species Spinitingis ellenbergeri n. sp. and Burmacader multivenosus n. sp., are described and figured. Their systematic placement and relationship to fossil and extant taxa are discussed.

The carnivorous Tyrannosauridae are among the most iconic dinosaurs: typified by large body size, tiny forelimbs, and massive robust skulls with laterally thickened teeth. The recently described small-bodied tyrannosaurid Raptorex kreigsteini is exceptional as its discovery proposes that many of the distinctive anatomical traits of derived tyrannosaurids were acquired in the Early Cretaceous, b...

Figure 1. A: Map of Charleston-Nebo salient and northernmost Book Cliffs showing rock units, thrust faults (dashed where buried), key seismic coverage (gray lines), measured stratigraphic sections (1–7; 8 is location of additional Blackhawk sandstone samples), and wells. Rock units: KTs—Cretaceous–Tertiary strata (North Horn and younger formations), Kmv—Cretaceous Mesaverde Group (Blackhawk, Ca...