Sedimentology and depositional environments of the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: New insight into Cretaceous and Paleogene …

EM Roberts, PM O'Connor, NJ Stevens… - Journal of African Earth …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Red Sandstone Group (RSG) in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania
represents one of the only well-exposed, fossiliferous Cretaceous–Paleogene continental …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)

H Silva, V Gallo - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Enchodontoidei are extinct marine teleost fishes with a long temporal range and a wide
geographic distribution. As there has been no comprehensive phylogenetic study of this …

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

MJ Polcyn, LL Jacobs, R Araújo, AS Schulp… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Mosasaurs are marine squamates with a 32.5 million-year history from their appearance at
98 Ma to their extinction at the K–Pg boundary (65.5 Ma). Using a database of 43 generic …

Zarafasaura oceanis, a new elasmosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and the palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous …

P Vincent, N Bardet, XP Suberbiola, B Bouya… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
Though the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco have yielded very rich marine vertebrate
assemblages, plesiosaurs remain very scarce in these strata. The only hitherto recognized …

The Atlantic jigsaw puzzle and the geoheritage of Angola

LL Jacobs, S Schröder, N de Sousa… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The jigsaw-puzzle fit of South America and Africa is an icon of plate tectonics and
continental drift. Fieldwork in Angola since 2002 allows the correlation of onshore outcrops …

OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA …

DW Krause, SD Sampson, MT Carrano… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We review the historical sequence of discoveries of Majungasaurus crenatissimus, an
abelisaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation …

A new crocodyliform from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania

JJW Sertich, PM O'Connor - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new taxon of peirosaurid crocodyliform, Rukwasuchus yajabalijekundu, gen.
et sp. nov., is described on the basis of a well-preserved partial skull from the middle …

Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines

T Konishi, MW Caldwell - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new plioplatecarpine taxon, Latoplatecarpus, gen. nov., is proposed here to
incorporate two species, L. willistoni, sp. nov., and L. nichollsae (comb. nov.). The new …

[PDF][PDF] A new species of Prognathodon (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus Liodon

AS Schulp, MJ Polcyn, O Mateus, LL Jacobs… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - academia.edu
Here we describe a new species of the mosasaurine genus Prognathodon from the
Maastrichtian of Namibe, Angola, on the basis of five specimens which represent most of the …

The cranial anatomy and relationships of Cardiocorax mukulu (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from Bentiaba, Angola

MP Marx, O Mateus, MJ Polcyn, AS Schulp… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We report a new specimen of the plesiosaur Cardiocorax mukulu that includes the most
complete plesiosaur skull from sub-Saharan Africa. The well-preserved three-dimensional …