The Mesozoic biogeographic history of Gondwanan terrestrial vertebrates: insights from Madagascar's fossil record

DW Krause, JJW Sertich, PM O'Connor… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The Mesozoic plate tectonic and paleogeographic history of Gondwana had a profound
effect on the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates. As the supercontinent fragmented into a …

Paleoclimatic variability in the southern Tethys, Egypt: Insights from the mineralogy and geochemistry of Upper Cretaceous lacustrine organic-rich deposits

D Fathy, M Wagreich, T Ntaflos, M Sami - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The effect of paleoclimate during global warming periods on Upper Cretaceous lacustrine
deposits is not fully understood. In this study, comprehensive sedimentological …

Provenance characterization of campanian lacustrine organic-rich mudstones on the southern tethyan margin, egypt

D Fathy, M Wagreich, T Ntaflos… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Campanian lacustrine organic-rich mudstones were deposited under a warm greenhouse
climate in Egypt. In this study, integrated elemental geochemical analyses have been …

Lagerstätte effect drives notosuchian palaeodiversity (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia)

A De Celis, I Narváez, A Arcucci, F Ortega - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Notosuchians are a crocodyliform clade with a rich Gondwanan fossil record, especially in
Cretaceous South American deposits. More than half of all described species come from …

The first side-necked turtle (pleurodira, bothremydidae) from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Egypt

M AbdelGawad, A Pérez-García, R Hirayama… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Quseir Formation is an Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) deposit in the Kharga oasis of
the Southwestern Desert (Egypt). This formation comprises a clastic sequence of bioturbated …

The postcranial skeleton of Cerrejonisuchus improcerus (Crocodyliformes: Dyrosauridae) and the unusual anatomy of dyrosaurids

I Scavezzoni, V Fischer - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Dyrosauridae is a clade of neosuchian crocodyliforms that diversified in terrestrial and
aquatic environments across the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition. The postcranial anatomy …

Dinosaur faunas of Egypt—the terrestrial late cretaceous vertebrate record

FJ Augustin, J Hartung, P Kampouridis - The phanerozoic geology and …, 2023 - Springer
Egypt has yielded some of the richest and most spectacular records of Mesozoic terrestrial
vertebrates from Africa. Certainly, the best-known and most diverse of these are the …

A new Gondwanan perspective on the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition from the Tithonian-Berriasian interval of southeastern Morocco

H Aouraghe, R Chennouf, H Haddoumi, M Lasseron… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of continental faunas and floras from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition
in Gondwana, and especially in Africa, is limited. Here, we report the discovery of a rare …

Dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Desert, Egypt

BS Salem, PM O'Connor, E Gorscak, S El-Sayed… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Upper Cretaceous dinosaur remains from Afro-Arabia are rare and mainly restricted to pre-
Turonian horizons. Consequently, the discovery of new fossils from Upper Cretaceous …

A new record of saltasaurids in Africa; new evidence from the Middle Campanian, Western Desert, Egypt

DGA Wahba, GA Abu El-Kheir, AA Tantawy… - Historical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Late Cretaceous deposits in the south of the Western Desert in the Dakhla
Basin are well exposed, comprising variegated shales which contain a variety of vertebrates …