SAND BANK AND DUNE FACIES ARCHITECTURE OF A WIDE INTRACRATONIC SEAWAY: LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS RAUKELV FORMATION, JAMESON LAND, EAST GREENLAND

Author(s):  
FINN SURLYK ◽  
NANNA NOE-NYGAARD
1981 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 11-42
Author(s):  
E. Håkansson ◽  
T. Birkelund ◽  
S. Piasecki ◽  
V. A. Zakharov

A fossiliferous Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequence is described from the Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland. The area was transgressed in the Middle Oxfordian and a gradually shallowing marine regime prevailed until Early Valanginian time, when conditions became !ironic. Stratigraphic data based on dinoflagellate cysts, ammonites and Buchia species indicate the presence of strata of Middle and Late Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, Middle and Late Volgian, Early and Late Ryazanian, and Early Valanginian ages. Both the dinoflagellate assemblages and the mollusc faunas show close similarity to assemblages from the Sverdrup Basin of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Svalbard and northern USSR. They are also linked to more southern Boreal and Sub-Boreal areas in East Greenland, England, the Russian Platform and to some extent, North America. An integrated dinoflagellate-ammonite-Buchia stratigra­phy shows that the Early Cretaceous dinoflagellate assemblage appeared later in the Wandel Sea Basin than further south. It is also seen that a discrete "Jurassic" dinoflagellate assemblage existed for some time in the Early Cretaceous unaffected by the general tum-over at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. Dinoflagellate, ammonite and Buchia assemblages are briefly discussed and selected species figured.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Ogg ◽  
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Chunju Huang ◽  
Chunju Huang ◽  
Linda A. Hinnov ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. KNOLL ◽  
J. I. RUIZ-OMEÑACA

AbstractThe theropod teeth from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) site of Anoual (N Morocco) are described. The assemblage is important in that it comes from one of the very few dinosaur sites of this age globally and the only one for the whole of Gondwana. The theropod teeth from Anoual are morphologically diverse. Most of the material possibly belongs to the clade Dromaeosauridae, which would be an early occurrence for this taxon. The palaeogeographic position of Anoual enables it to provide data on the dispersal events that affected terrestrial faunas during Mesozoic times. A Laurasian influence is evidenced by the presence of Velociraptorinae and, on the whole, the theropod fauna from Anoual provides support for the existence of a trans-Tethyan passage allowing terrestrial faunal interchanges during Late Jurassic and/or earliest Cretaceous times. Additionally, Anoual records the existence of diminutive theropods. However, it cannot yet be determined whether the small size of the specimens is genetic or ontogenetic.


2021 ◽  
pp. 100067
Author(s):  
Panchala Weerakoon ◽  
Harinam Joshi ◽  
Neha Aggarwal ◽  
Neerja Jha ◽  
Hetti Arachchige Hemachandra Jayasena ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Cifelli ◽  
Cynthia L. Gordon ◽  
Thomas R. Lipka

Multituberculates, though among the most commonly encountered mammalian fossils of the Mesozoic, are poorly known from the North American Early Cretaceous, with only one taxon named to date. Herein we describe Argillomys marylandensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Early Cretaceous of Maryland, based on an isolated M2. Argillomys represents the second mammal known from the Arundel Clay facies of the Patuxent Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Aptian). Though distinctive in its combination of characters (e.g., enamel ornamentation consisting of ribs and grooves only, cusp formula 2:4, presence of distinct cusp on anterobuccal ridge, enlargement of second cusp on buccal row, central position of ultimate cusp in lingual row, great relative length), the broader affinities of Argillomys cannot be established because of non-representation of the antemolar dentition. Based on lack of apomorphies commonly seen among Cimolodonta (e.g., three or more cusps present in buccal row, fusion of cusps in lingual row, cusps strongly pyramidal and separated by narrow grooves), we provisionally regard Argillomys as a multituberculate of “plagiaulacidan” grade. Intriguingly, it is comparable in certain respects to some unnamed Paulchoffatiidae, a family otherwise known from the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula.


2019 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Delvene ◽  
Rafael P. Lozano ◽  
Martin Munt ◽  
Rafael Royo-Torres ◽  
Alberto Cobos ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 776-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Tennant ◽  
Philip D. Mannion ◽  
Paul Upchurch ◽  
Mark D. Sutton ◽  
Gregory D. Price

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Marzola ◽  
Octávio Mateus ◽  
Jesper Milàn ◽  
Lars B. Clemmensen

This article presents a synthesis of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil tetrapods from Greenland, including an updated review of the holotypes and a new photographic record of the main specimens. All fossil tetrapods found are from East Greenland, with at least 30 different known taxa: five stem tetrapods (Acanthostega gunnari, Ichthyostega eigili, I. stensioi, I. watsoni, and Ymeria denticulata) from the Late Devonian of the Aina Dal and Britta Dal Formations; four temnospondyl amphibians (Aquiloniferus kochi, Selenocara groenlandica, Stoschiosaurus nielseni, and Tupilakosaurus heilmani) from the Early Triassic of the Wordie Creek Group; two temnospondyls (Cyclotosaurus naraserluki and Gerrothorax cf. pulcherrimus), one testudinatan (cf. Proganochelys), two stagonolepids (Aetosaurus ferratus and Paratypothorax andressorum), the eudimorphodontid Arcticodactylus, undetermined archosaurs (phytosaurs and both sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs), the cynodont Mitredon cromptoni, and three mammals (Haramiyavia clemmenseni, Kuehneotherium, and cf. ?Brachyzostrodon), from the Late Triassic of the Fleming Fjord Formation; one plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of the Kap Stewart Formation; one plesiosaur and one ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic of the Kap Leslie Formation, plus a previously unreported Late Jurassic plesiosaur from Kronprins Christian Land. Moreover, fossil tetrapod trackways are known from the Late Carboniferous (morphotype Limnopus) of the Mesters Vig Formation and at least four different morphologies (such as the crocodylomorph Brachychirotherium, the auropodomorph Eosauropus and Evazoum, and the theropodian Grallator) associated to archosaurian trackmakers are known from the Late Triassic of the Fleming Fjord Formation. The presence of rich fossiliferous tetrapod sites in East Greenland is linked to the presence of well-exposed continental and shallow marine deposits with most finds in terrestrial deposits from the Late Devonian and the Late Triassic.


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