Chronostratigraphic synthesis of the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in south-western Europe

V Fondevilla, V Riera, B Vila, AG Sellés… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
In south-western Europe, the uppermost Cretaceous continental deposits in the different
sedimentary basins of Iberia (Portugal and north and central Spain), the Pyrenees (Spain …

Morphology and taxonomy of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)

B Andres, W Langston Jr - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Quetzalcoatlus is the largest flying organism ever known and one of the most familiar
pterosaurs to the public. Despite a half century of interest, it remains very incompletely …

A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe

B Vila, A Selles, M Moreno-Azanza… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the last sauropod dinosaur communities in Europe and their evolution during
the final 15 million years of the Cretaceous have become a complex phylogenetic and …

Palynological and organic geochemical analyses of the Upper Cretaceous Bozeș Formation at Petrești (southwestern Transylvanian Basin)–biostratigraphic and …

D Ţabără, Ş Vasile, Z Csiki-Sava, R Bălc, M Vremir… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
A palynological and organic geochemical study of the Upper Cretaceous deposits cropping
out in the southwestern part of the Transylvanian Basin (Petreşti section) has been carried …

Age, depositional history, and paleoclimatic setting of Early Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages from the Sao Khua Formation (Khorat Group), Thailand

RT Tucker, EG Hyland, TA Gates, MR King… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
We describe the sedimentology, geochronology, and geochemistry of the Early Cretaceus
Sao Khua Formation of the Khorat Basin, northeastern Thailand, and report a temporal …

The last dinosaurs of Brazil: The Bauru Group and its implications for the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

SL Brusatte, CRA Candeiro… - Anais da Academia …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
The non-avian dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous,~ 66 million years ago, after
an asteroid impact. The prevailing hypothesis is that the effects of the impact suddenly killed …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of eggshells of Gekkota with morphological, chemical compositional and crystallographic approaches and its evolutionary implications

S Choi, S Han, NH Kim, YN Lee - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The Gekkota is an important clade in the evolution of calcified eggshells in that some of its
families lay rigid eggshells like archosaurs. However, the fundamental differences and …

'X'marks the spot! Sedimentological, geochemical and palaeontological investigations of Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) vertebrate fossil localities from the Vălioara …

G Botfalvai, Z Csiki-Sava, L Kocsis, G Albert… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Croatian-Hungarian palaeontologist Ottokár Kadić
discovered a rich Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage around Vălioara in the Haţeg …

Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tuştea vertebrate assemblage (Romania; Haţeg Basin)-insights into a …

G Botfalvai, Z Csiki-Sava, D Grigorescu… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Tuştea vertebrate locality, at Oltoane Hill (northwestern part of the Hațeg Basin,
Romania), has provided a rich and diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) …

Comparative crystallography suggests maniraptoran theropod affinities for latest Cretaceous European 'geckoid'eggshell

S Choi, M Moreno‐Azanza, Z Csiki‐Sava… - Papers in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thin fossil eggshell from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Europe, characterized by nodular
ornamentation similar to modern gekkotan eggshell, has mostly been interpreted as …