Phylogenomics of the ancient and species-depauperate gars tracks 150 million years of continental fragmentation in the northern hemisphere

C Doran Brownstein, L Yang, M Friedman… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing deep-time biogeographic histories is limited by the comparatively recent
diversification of most extant lineages. Ray-finned fishes, which include nearly half of all …

Onset of Late Cretaceous diversification in Europe's freshwater gastropod fauna links to global climatic and biotic events

TA Neubauer, M Harzhauser - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The Mesozoic rise of the European freshwater gastropod fauna is still poorly understood.
Compared to the well documented Cenozoic history, little is known about the patterns and …

Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil …

E Isasmendi, A Torices, JI Canudo… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A total of 227 theropod teeth have so far been recovered from the upper Campanian Laño
site (northern Iberian Peninsula). The teeth were studied for their qualitative and quantitative …

An Eudromaeosaurian Theropod from Lo Hueco (Upper Cretaceous. Central Spain)

E Malafaia, F Escaso, RA Coria, F Ortega - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Lo Hueco fossil site (Cuenca, Spain) is one of the most relevant localities for the study of
Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate faunas from Europe. The fossil record of theropod …

The first record of gars (Ginglymodi: Lepisosteidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Bulgaria reveals a wider paleogeographic distribution of lepisosteids within the …

V Nikolov, P Andreev, G Voykov, D Dochev - Cretaceous Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The bony-fishes of the clade Lepisosteidae, commonly called 'gars' or 'gar-fish', are a
lineage of proficient piscivores with evolutionary history spanning about 150 million years …

Ferussina petofiana sp. n.(Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae), the oldest representative of its subfamily from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

B Páll-Gergely, J Magyar, Z Csiki-Sava… - … JOURNAL OF ANIMAL …, 2023 - real.mtak.hu
The terrestrial gastropod Ferussina petofiana Páll-Gergely sp. n. is described from
uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) deposits from the Haţeg Basin, Romania. It …