Appalachia (landmass) During most of the Late Cretaceous (100.5 to 66 million years ago) the eastern half of North America formed Appalachia (named for the Appalachian Mountains ), an island land mass separated from Laramidia to the west by the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway had split North America into two massive landmasses due to a ...Overburden strata are Upper Jurassic, Cretaceous and Cenozoic nonmarine and marine siliciclastic, carbonate and evaporite post-rift deposits (Mancini et al., 2003). Upper Jurassic organic rich and ...The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series and spans the time between 89.8 ± 1 Ma and 86.3 ± 0.7 Ma (million years ago). The Coniacian is preceded by the Turonian and followed by the Santonian. [3]Upper Cretaceous strata of the Abu Roash area are deformed by a series of NE-trending left-stepped en echelon oblique folds, which are sequentially dissected by faults of the following development ...Planktonic foraminifera are one of the most stratigraphically important groups of organisms for the Cretaceous system. However, standard foraminiferal zonations based mostly on species from the Tethyan bioprovince are hardly applicable in temperate regions where warm-water taxa are scarce or lacking. We propose a foraminiferal zonation based on foraminiferal events recognized in the northern ...From a study of silicified fossils, and in particular the microstructure of brachiopods, from the Wilmington Sands (Upper Cretaceous) of Devon, a model of skeletal silicification is proposed. Three distinct morphologies of silica were formed, ...Upper boundary GSSP candidate section (s) None. The Jurassic ( / dʒʊˈræsɪk / juu-RASS-ik [2]) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period 201.4 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 145 Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the ...The Austin Group (Coniacian-Santonian) is a sequence of interstratified chalk and marl deposited during a sea-level highstand as a transgressive unit. Austin Chalk deposition occurred on a southeastward-dipping carbonate ramp that exhibits distinctive onshore and offshore chalk lithofacies. Discrete intervals within offshore Austin lithofacies ...Cretaceous Period - Climate, Extinction, Dinosaurs: In general, the climate of the Cretaceous Period was much warmer than at present, perhaps the warmest on a worldwide basis than at any other time during the Phanerozoic Eon. The climate was also more equable in that the temperature difference between the poles and the Equator was about …Jun 6, 2022 · Occurrences of the Upper Cretaceous sediments in southwestern Slovakia. The numbers refer to the description in the text. (1) Magura nappe system, (2) Jarmuta Fm., Pieniny Klippen Belt, (3) Vienna Basin, (4) Upper Cretaceous atop of Hronic nappe, (5) Chtelnica Fm., Turonian freshwater limestones, (6) Horné Belice Group, (7) Hubina Fm., (8), Horné Belice Group (9) Upper Cretaceous sediments ... During the last three decades, several basal ceratopsians have been unearthed in Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous strata in Asia and North America, including Yinlong downsi 1, Chaoyangsaurus ...The fossils were unearthed from the sandstone bed of the Upper Cretaceous Quantou Formation in Shanqian Village, Liufangzi Town, Gongzhuling City, Changchun Area, Jilin Province, China. Dromaeosaurids are small to medium-sized carnivorous dinosaurs, and they occur from the Early Cretaceous to the Late Cretaceous ( Turner et al., 2012 ). The presence of a small to middle-medium sized abelisaurid in the Upper Cretaceous shows that. Author statement. We the authors of "A New Medium-sized Abelisaurid (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Allen Formation of Northern Patagonia, Argentina." declare that have not submitted this article in another journal ...The Upper Cretaceous (middle-late Campanian) Wahweap Formation of southern Utah contains the oldest diagnostic evidence of ceratopsids (to date, all centrosaurines) in North America, with a number ...The Czech scientific expedition to northern James Ross Island, Antarctica has tested the use of calcareous nannofossils as a possible tool for stratigraphic correlation of Cretaceous and Neogene strata. Only a few samples with poor nannofossil content gave useful information for biostratigraphy. The Lower Campanian Chiastozygus garrisonii Zone and Gephyrobiscutum diabolum Subzone, respectively ...Mesaverde Formation or Mesaverde Group (Upper Cretaceous) at surface, covers 1 % of this area. Mesaverde Formation (north Wyoming) - Light-colored massive to thin-bedded sandstone, gray sandy shale, and coal beds. In Jackson Hole locally contains gold-bearing quartzite conglomerate. North of North Fork Powder River east of the Bighorn Mountains ...Upper Cretaceous and Lower Cretaceous aquifers are transboundary aquifers which extend outside the political east boundary of Egypt to Negev, in Palestine (Issar et al. 1972; Nour 1998). The Upper Cretaceous limestone and the Lower Cretaceous sandstone aquifers extend in central and northern Sinai and are the main source of water in this area.Sep 21, 2023 · The Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Jiangxi Province, southern China has yielded a diverse array of vertebrates in recent years, including theropods (Xu and Han 2010 ; Wang et al. 2013 ; Wei The presence of a small to middle-medium sized abelisaurid in the Upper Cretaceous shows that. Author statement. We the authors of "A New Medium-sized Abelisaurid (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Allen Formation of Northern Patagonia, Argentina." declare that have not submitted this article in another journal ...May 1, 2022 · Detailed field and lithostratigraphic studies are carried out on the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene section at Esh El-Mellaha area, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. The section is located at Wadi Dib west ... Abelisauridae is a theropod clade with a wide distribution in the Late Cretaceous of Gondwana.Some of the best preserved abelisaurid specimens were recovered from Patagonia (Argentina) such as Skorpiovenator, Ilokelesia, Carnotaurus and Aucasaurus.Here we describe a dorsal part of a neural spine; a middle caudal vertebra; a distal part of a left metatarsal IV; a complete right phalanx IV-1 ...Upper Cretaceous marine sequences in the Gulf Coastal Plain (USA) span the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition, allowing for detailed studies of one of the most severe extinction events of ...Jun 8, 2022 · The new vertebra shows affinities with those of other Upper Cretaceous abelisaurids from Madagascar and South America, such as Majungasaurus crenatissimus, Carnotaurus sastrei, Viavenator exxoni and a generically indeterminate Patagonian specimen (Museo Padre Molina specimen 99). Phylogenetic analysis recovers the Bahariya form within ... Upper Cretaceous subsurface stratigraphy and structure of coastal Georgia and South Carolina is based on the study of 24 wells along two transects, one extending across the seaward-dipping sedimentary basin termed the 'Southeast Georgia Embayment' northeastward to the crest of the Cape Fear Arch, and the other alined east-west, parallel to the basin axis and including the COST GE-l well on the OutThe Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene succession at Gabal Qreiya area that covers six rock units, Quseir, Duwi, Dakhla, Tarawan, Esna, and Thebes formations, is reviewed through a high-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis. Six third-order depositional sequences and their associated surfaces and systems tracts are recognized based on stratigraphic, sedimentological, and high-resolution ...Upper Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequences are among the most important targets for hydrocarbon exploration in the Moghan area, located in the eastern Para-Tethys Basin. Despite of ...Thanatosdrakon (IPA: [θænətɒsdrɑːkɒn]) (meaning "dragon of death") is a genus of quetzalcoatline azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Upper Coniacian-Lower Santonian) Plottier Formation of the Neuquén Basin in western Argentina (Andes mountain range).The genus name is derived from the Greek words thanatos (=death) and drakon (=dragon), while the specific name is a Quechuan ...In open-marine accumulations, a peculiarly common mode of occurrence within Upper Cretaceous hemipelagic (marly chalk) facies of southeastern states, simple floatation of a dinosaurian cadaver into deep-water shelfal areas is the only mechanism involved (Figure 3c; Langston, 1960; Schwimmer, 1996). Such a cadaver, dried on its top side and ...Apr 1, 2023 · The Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, NE China is known to contain excellent petroleum source rocks. In addition, it serves as a valuable record to study depositional conditions within the water column and climatic change. Late Cretaceous palaeogeography of western North America was dominated by three tectonic belts that extended virtually the length of the Cordillera: (1) an Andean-type volcanic–plutonic magmatic arc on the west (i.e., Cordilleran Magmatic Arc), (2) a thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt on the east (initiated in mid-Cretaceous time), and (3) a hinterland (zone of metamorphism, magmatism, and ...Fossil sites of Late Late Cretaceous period – Nemegtian age (Maastrichtian) or Upper Upper Cretaceous, “Nemegt Formation” (70 million years from now). The richest dinosaur fossil sites are frequently found in areas, such as Bayanshiree, Khongil Tsav, Amtgai, Baishin Tsav, Urulbu khudag, Shar Tsav in the Eastern part of Gobi Desert ...The only turtle closest to this size from the Upper Cretaceous of China is Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis of Nanhsiungchelyidae, in which the carapace length is larger than 111 cm. However, this large turtle was recovered from Nanxiong County, Guangdong Province (Ye, 1966; Tong and Li, 2019).The Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous nonmarine rocks of the study area contain three depositional sequences. The first of these, the UJ-1 sequence, consists primarily of an aggradational systems ...Only two Cretaceous source rocks exist in the NRB, the Upper Cretaceous Donga and the Upper Cretaceous Yogou source rocks. The source rock of the Yogou Formation is the most prolific in the entire NRB and has basin-wide distribution (Zhou et al., 2017; Xiao et al., 2019). The Donga Formation is predominantly Type III kerogen of very poor to ...Home · Scientific Publications · American Museum Novitates · Some Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Angola. American Museum novitates ; no. 1182 ...According to Skourtsis-Coroneou et al. (1995) the Upper Cretaceous deposits, mentioned as "clastic limestones" from the western to eastern part, from the external to internal Ionian zones, consist of: A. In the external (western) parts have a micritic matrix, consist of floatstones, rudstones and rare grainstones and packstones with micritic or biomicritic intercalations.New Chondrichthyans from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Seymour and James Ross Islands, Antarctica Volume 88, Issue 3 Rodrigo A. Otero (a1) , Carolina Simon Gutstein (a1) , Alexander Vargas (a1) , David Rubilar-Rogers (a2) , Roberto Yury-Yañez (a3) , Joaquin Bastías (a4) and Cristián Ramírez (a4)Tiny, ornamented eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah represent a new ootaxon with theropod affinities Sara E. Oser, Karen Chin, Joseph J. W. …According to the most popular theory, the Brachiosaurus dinosaur became extinct during the end of the Cretaceous period due to the impact of a meteor on Earth’s surface.Jan 20, 2018 · Geography. Approximately the upper Cretaceous occupies in north central Kansas an area of twenty five thousand square miles-nearly one third of the total area of the state. The main portion of this area lies between the 38th and 40th parallels north latitude and the 97th and 100th degrees 30 minutes west longitude. Upper Cretaceous marine sequences in the Gulf Coastal Plain (USA) span the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition, allowing for detailed studies of one of the most severe extinction events of ...In the early Cretaceous, many of the southern continents were still joined together as part of the southern landmass called Gondwana.The Cretaceous Period is a classic example of a "greenhouse state" in Earth history (Skelton, 2003) that was marked by rapid climate perturbations, multiple oceanic anoxic events (OAEs), deposition of oceanic red beds (CORBs), intense volcanic activities and a long period of normal geomagnetic polarity (Cretaceous Normal Superchron: CNS).). Although marine sedimentary rocks comprise the ...A sturgeon (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Africa. A single dorsal bony scute from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) marine phosphatites of central Morocco is identified as an acipenserid fish (sturgeon). The new specimen represents the first occurrence of an acipenseriform fish on the continent of Africa.Meniscoessus robustus – Named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889. Remains were discovered in Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) and possibly Paleocene strata of Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota, USA, and the St. Mary's River Formation of Canada. The weight of this species is estimated to have been about 3.3 kilograms (7.3 lb).Ages of the Upper Cretaceous formations of the Gobi are based on comparisons of the vertebrates with those of North American non-marine units, which are constrained by ammonite and palynological biozonations and calibrated by chronostratigraphical methods (Gradzinski et al., 1977, Fox, 1978, Lillegraven and McKenna, 1986, Jerzykiewicz and ...Upper Cretaceous to Miocene; skull laterally flattened; choanae in depression in anterior part of pterygoids. Suborder Eusuchia Upper Jurassic to Recent; choanae entirely enclosed by pterygoids. Family Alligatoridae (alligators and caimans) 4 genera and 8 species; teeth of lower jaw fit inside those of upper jaw.The Cretaceous as a separate period was first defined by Belgian geologist Jean d'Omalius d'Halloy in 1822, using strata in the Paris Basin and named for the extensive beds of chalk (calcium carbonate deposited by the shells of marine invertebrates, principally coccoliths), found in the upper Cretaceous of western Europe.This study reports on a new ceratopsid, Spiclypeus shipporum gen et sp. nov., from the lower Coal Ridge Member of the Judith River Formation in Montana, USA, which dates to ~76 Ma (upper Campanian). The species is distinguished by rugose dorsal contacts on the premaxillae for the nasals, laterally projecting postorbital horncores, fully fused and anteriorly curled P1 and P2 epiparietals, and a ...nonmarine environments. Thicknesses of the Upper Cretaceous strata range from more than 17,000 ft in southwestern Montana to nearly 6,000 ft in northwestern New Mexico. In this transect for time-stratigraphic units of the Cretaceous, lateral changes in lithologies, regional differences in thicknesses, and the abundance of associated disconformitiesUpper Cretaceous to Miocene; skull laterally flattened; choanae in depression in anterior part of pterygoids. Suborder Eusuchia Upper Jurassic to Recent; choanae entirely enclosed by pterygoids. Family Alligatoridae (alligators and caimans) 4 genera and 8 species; teeth of lower jaw fit inside those of upper jaw.The hard skeletons of belemnites (the guard or. rostrum) are common in the Upper Cretaceous. chalks and marls of Boreal Europe, and it is here. phylogeny of the belemnites has been worked. out ...The Upper Cretaceous Israeli marine succession was influenced by two major unrelated processes: (1) Tectonic-control of the Syrian Arc fold system that differentiated the outer-shelf into ...A sturgeon (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Africa. A single dorsal bony scute from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) marine phosphatites of central Morocco is identified as an acipenserid fish (sturgeon). The new specimen represents the first occurrence of an acipenseriform fish on the continent of Africa.Upper Cretaceous tyrannosauroid material from North America was primarily known from upper Campanian through Maastrichtian formations until the recent discovery of derived tyrannosaurid taxa from lower-to-mid Campanian deposits in the southwestern United States. However, diagnostic material from contemporaneous deposits further north in Alberta ...Only two Cretaceous source rocks exist in the NRB, the Upper Cretaceous Donga and the Upper Cretaceous Yogou source rocks. The source rock of the Yogou Formation is the most prolific in the entire NRB and has basin-wide distribution (Zhou et al., 2017; Xiao et al., 2019).New ornithomimid material discovered from the Upper Cretaceous Packard Shale Formation, (Cabullona Group) of Sonora, Mexico is described. The material includes a partial skeleton, which is assigned to a new genus and species, Tototlmimus packardensis.This new taxon differs from other ornithomimids in having five unique characteristics that separate it from other Northamerican ornithomimids: (1 ...The Upper Cretaceous units of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, where the vertebrate fossil record is significant, comprise Bajo Barreal (early Cenomanian-late Turonian) and Lago Colhué Huapi (Coniacian-Maastrichtian) formations (see Casal et al., 2015, 2016). The variety of fossil vertebrates in these units constitutes an excellent opportunity to ...Isolated bones of abelisauroid theropods from the Baum Group (Upper Cretaceous, Brazil), are described. They correspond to three individuals represented by fused ischia and part of the ilium, a ...The Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction eradicated 76% of species on Earth1,2. ... This proxy provides a firm upper limit of 8 kyr for deposition, assuming none of the 3 He is reworked.The Upper Cretaceous succession outcropping in the Anamas-Akseki Autochton, consists of approximately 500 m thick purely platform carbonate sediments.It begins with Cenomanian limestones intercalated with limestone breccias (Unit-1) containing mainly Pseudorhapydionina dubia, Pseudonummoloculina heimi, Spiroloculina cretacea (Assemblage I) and unconformably overlies the Lower Cretaceous ...A new articulated postcranial specimen of an indeterminate ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (middle-upper Campanian) Baruungoyot Formation from Hermiin Tsav, southern Gobi Desert ...Ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian) of the New Siberian Islands, Russian Arctic, and their implications for the evolution of the ichthyosaurian basicranium and vertebral column ... (Upper Cretaceous) of the Volga Region, Russia. Cretaceous Research 2020-06 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104419 Part …The regional Cretaceous structural and isopach/lithofacies maps of the Middle East provide a unique overview of the major tectonic and stratigraphic developments in the leading petroleum basin of the World. The structural map of the Near Top Cretaceous and the Upper Cretaceous isopach show that most of the tectonic elements of the region ...The Wind River Basin of central Wyoming trends west-northwest from near the community of Alcova to near the town of Dubois (fig. 1). On the perimeter of the basin, outcrops of the Frontier Formation were examined and described during the years 1972-1975. Invertebrate fossils were collected from those outcrops during the years 1972-1996, in places with the assistance of other earth scientists ...Cretaceous Dinosaurs in Parks. Cretaceous (145 to 66 Ma) dinosaur fossils in the NPS are geographically more scattered than the Triassic and Jurassic examples. In recent years, Alaska’s parks have become significant for tracks, especially at Denali National Park and Preserve, where hadrosaur tracks are abundant.Bryce Canyon …The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. It was deposited in alluvial and coastal plain environments, and it is bounded …A marine bonebed from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bearpaw - Dinosaur Park Formation transition, containing both micro- and macrovertebrate fossils and trace fossils, was discovered in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. The bonebed formed during transgression of the Western Interior Seaway, with the stratigraphy of the area displaying extensive interfingering of these terrestrial and ...Upper Cretaceous strata at Göynük, northwestern Anatolia, Turkey, provide a geological record of the Campanian-Maastrichtian from the Sakarya Terrane along the active Neotethys margin.Sep 1, 2021 · These successions correspond to four distinct tectono-sedimentary phases, from older to younger forming the Upper Paleozoic Karoo Supergroup, the Cretaceous Galula Formation, the Oligocene Nsungwe Formation and the Miocene-Recent Lake Beds strata (Roberts et al., 2012) (Fig. 1). 1. Introduction. Ever since the Cretaceous System was first introduced, by the Belgian geologist Jean-Baptiste-Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (1822), it has been arbitrarily divided into two or three series, i.e. lower and upper Cretaceous or lower, middle and upper Cretaceous, respectively, a situation that continues unabated today to the obvious detriment of clarity in stratigraphic communication.Age, Correlation, and Lithostratigraphic Revision of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation in Its Type Area (North-Central Montana), with a Comparison of Low- and High-Accommodation Alluvial Records. The …Purbeck Beds, unit of sedimentary rocks exposed in southern England that spans the boundary between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, approximately 145 million years ago. The highly varied Purbeck Beds, which overlie rocks of the Portland Beds, record a marked change in sedimentary facies,Upper Cretaceous strata at Göynük, northwestern Anatolia, Turkey, provide a geological record of the Campanian-Maastrichtian from the Sakarya Terrane along the active Neotethys margin.Jul 26, 2022 · The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic period about 145 ... Background Extended neoteny and late stage allometric growth increase morphological disparity between growth stages in at least some dinosaurs. Coupled with relatively low dinosaur density in the Upper Cretaceous of North America, ontogenetic transformational representatives are often difficult to distinguish. For example, many hadrosaurids previously reported to represent relatively small ...Furcatoceratops (meaning "forked horned face") is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. The type species is Furcatoceratops elucidans. Discovery and naming NSM PV 24660, which is the holotype specimen ... NSM PV 24660 was collected from rocks of the upper Coal Ridge Member ...Of the 10 Upper Cretaceous tropical dinoflagellates cysts references mentioned before (Table 2), 3 are from northern South America, and 7 are from the central Atlantic region. The tropical database compiled here contains 262 species, 164 are in the UCret localities from Venezuela, and 73 are reported in both regions (Appendix A).Here we report on a new dromaeosaurid, Dineobellator notohesperus, gen. and sp. nov., consisting of a partial skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of New Mexico, the first diagnostic ...The Hartland Shale Member of the Greenhorn Limestone was deposited in the middle of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America. Rock samples rich in micro-vertebrate fossils were collected from the lower part of the Hartland Shale (ca. 94.6 Ma: early Late Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado, USA.Through acid treatment of the rock samples, 25 marine vertebrate taxa are ...In the Japanese Upper Cretaceous, elasmosaurid remains are fairly common but two short-necked lineages are represented by much smaller number of specimens (e.g. Sato et al., 2012 Carrano et al ...The Pierre Shale is a geologic formation or series in the Upper Cretaceous which occurs east of the Rocky Mountains in the Great Plains, from Pembina Valley in Canada [2] to New Mexico . The Pierre Shale was described by Meek and Hayden in 1862 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences (Philadelphia). They described it as a dark-gray shale ... A new articulated postcranial specimen of an indeterminate ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (middle-upper Campanian) Baruungoyot Formation from Hermiin Tsav, southern Gobi Desert ...New shell material of a trionychid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Campanian) Fossil Forest Member of the Fruitland Formation of northwestern New Mexico represents a new species, Gilmoremys gettyspherensis.The material consists of right costals I-III, V, VI, and VIII, left costals V, VII, and VIII, the left half of the entoplastron, the right hypo- and xiphiplastron, and the left hyo ...A marine bonebed from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bearpaw - Dinosaur Park Formation transition, containing both micro- and macrovertebrate fossils and trace fossils, was discovered in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. The bonebed formed during transgression of the Western Interior Seaway, with the stratigraphy of the area displaying extensive interfingering of these terrestrial and ...Upper Cretaceous rocks and Lower Cretaceous rocks of Albian age, constitute a stratigraphic sequence that rests with marked angular discordance on older Creta ceous (Neocomian, Okpikruak formation) and pre- Cretaceous rocks. Lower Cretaceous rocks (fig. 30) include up to 12,000 feet of predominantly marine shale, and up to ...The Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, NE China is known to contain excellent petroleum source rocks. In addition, it serves as a valuable record to study depositional conditions within the water column and climatic change.The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied geological formation of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some Early Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana. The formation stretches over portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In Montana, the Hell Creek Formation ... The Upper Cretaceous strata are either devoid of microfauna or contain few agglutinated taxa suggestive of continental to brackish water settings. The development of calcareous benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Paleogene strata of the study area signaled the incursion of open marine neritic conditions. Influx of sandy sediments at some ...Upper Cretaceous clastic and carbonate source rocks are also present. Much crude oil in Upper Cretaceous reservoirs has been derived from organic-rich marine shales of the Tuscaloosa Formation. more » These shales are characterized by algal and higher plant kerogen, resulting in distinct crude oil compositions.Upper Cretaceous (lower-middle Turonian—middle Campanian), Xiaguan Formation, Neixiang County, Henan Province, China. Diagnosis. Small basal neoceratopsian with the following autapomorphies ...The Austin Group (Coniacian-Santonian) is a sequence of interstratified chalk and marl deposited during a sea-level highstand as a transgressive unit. Austin Chalk deposition occurred on a southeastward-dipping carbonate ramp that exhibits distinctive onshore and offshore chalk lithofacies. Discrete intervals within offshore Austin lithofacies ...A palynological and organic geochemical study of the Upp, Two species of the heteromorph ammonite genus Diplomoceras Hyatt are describe, Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the three periods of , PDF | On Aug 1, 2020, Derek T. Lichtner and others published Upper Cretaceous Strata in the Powder River Basin:, Taxonomy and paleoecology of lyssacinosan Hexactin, The Upper Cretaceous Hall Lake Formation is exposed in south-central New Mexico in Si, The record of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs in China is dominated by skeletal body fossils, while th, Description of new hadrosaurid fossils from the Upper, This paper reports the first discovery of large-bodied , Planktonic foraminifera are one of the most stratigraphi, A mixed Upper Cretaceous carbonate‐shale succession is well expos, The Upper Cretaceous-Palaeogene succession in the East Bahariy, Dec 22, 2022 · The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation , The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of U, This paper reports the first discovery of large-bodied dr, Apr 21, 2020 · The ichnofossil assemblage from the Upper Cre, Two species of the heteromorph ammonite genus Dipl, Upper Cretaceous aquifers. Upper Cretaceous aquife.