The cretaceous period

AS Gale, J Mutterlose, S Batenburg, FM Gradstein… - Geologic time scale …, 2020 - Elsevier
The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

Detrital zircon record of magmatism and sediment dispersal across the North American Cordilleran arc system (28–48° N)

TM Schwartz, KD Surpless, JP Colgan… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
As zircon U-Pb geochronology has become a leading method in sediment provenance
studies and basin analysis over the past 20 years, the volume of detrital zircon data made …

Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

J Ramezani, TL Beveridge, RR Rogers, DA Eberth… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The spectacular fossil fauna and flora preserved in the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata of
North America's Western Interior Basin record an exceptional peak in the diversification of …

Shoreline evolution in the Late Cretaceous North American Cordilleran foreland basin: an exemplar of the combined influence of tectonics, sea level, and sediment …

Z Li, J Aschoff - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The stratigraphic record from the North American Cordilleran foreland basin (CFB) serves as
a critical archive of how tectonics, sea level, and sediment supply interacted throughout the …

Detrital zircon age constraints for the Winton Formation, Queensland: contextualizing Australia's Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas

RT Tucker, EM Roberts, Y Hu, AIS Kemp… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Winton Formation provides an important snapshot of Australia's late Mesozoic terrestrial
biota, boasting a vertebrate fauna that includes dinosaurs, crocodyliforms, aquatic …

Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans

MA Loewen, RB Irmis, JJW Sertich, PJ Currie… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Late Cretaceous (∼ 95–66 million years ago) western North American landmass of
Laramidia displayed heightened non-marine vertebrate diversity and intracontinental …

A New Troodontid Theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America

LE Zanno, DJ Varricchio, PM O'Connor, AL Titus… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Troodontids are a predominantly small-bodied group of feathered theropod
dinosaurs notable for their close evolutionary relationship with Avialae. Despite a diverse …

The California River and its role in carving Grand Canyon

B Wernicke - Bulletin, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recently published thermochronological and paleoelevation studies in the Grand Canyon
region, combined with sedimentary provenance data in both the coastal and interior portions …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020 - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

Provenance of the Paleogene Colton Formation (Uinta Basin) and Cretaceous–Paleogene provenance evolution in the Utah foreland: Evidence from U-Pb ages of …

WR Dickinson, TF Lawton, M Pecha… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The fluviodeltaic Colton Formation (Late Paleocene–Early Eocene) forms a lobate
depositional system that prograded from the south into the Laramide Uinta Basin of …