scholarly journals Classification of the Asian non-marine Cretaceous System

1984 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Guo Fuxiang

The Asian non-marine Cretaceous System may be divided into two geographical provinces: a southern one, dominated by elastic red salt-bearing formations, and a northern one, dominated by elastic grey, yellowish green and black formations containing coal (kukersit). Vertically, on the basis of three trigonioi­dacean assemblages (bivalves), the System may be subdivided into Lower, Middle and Upper Cretaceous, three provincial series exhibiting this tripartite character. 4 zones and 6 subzones of the known trigonioi­daceans are tentatively presented.

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1655-1667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darla K. Zelenitsky ◽  
L. V. Hills ◽  
Philip J. Currie

Examination of a large number of eggshell fragments collected from the Oldman Formation of southern Alberta reveals a greater ootaxonomic diversity than is known from complete eggs or clutches. Three new oogenera and oospecies of the ornithoid-ratite morphotype and one of the ornithoid-prismatic morphotype are established, based on the eggshell fragments. Porituberoolithus warnerensis oogen. et oosp. nov. and Continuoolithus canadensis oogen. et oosp. nov. have a microstructure similar to that of elongatoolithid eggs of theropod dinosaurs. Tristraguloolithus cracioides oogen. et oosp. nov. and Dispersituberoolithus exilis oogen. et oosp. nov. possess an external zone and thus have a microstructure like modern avian eggshell. Tristraguloolithus has a shell thickness, microstructure, and surface sculpture similar to those of recent bird eggshell of the family Cracidae (order Galliformes). Dispersituberoolithus exhibits the primitive or normal eggshell condition of some recent neognathous avian taxa. The ootaxa described indicate a diversity of both avian and theropod dinosaur egg layers within Devil's Coulee and Knight's Ranch, southern Alberta, during the Late Cretaceous.


2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dan Georgescu

Abstract. A new genus, Fingeria, is recognized among the globular-chambered trochospiral planktic foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous (upper Cenomanian–lower Campanian). It consists of two pre-existing species: F. loetterlei (Nauss, 1947) and F. kingi (Trujillo, 1960). The ornamentation consists of scattered pustules, which can often fuse to form rugosities and, occasionally, costellae, especially over the earlier chambers of the test. Meridional ornamentation pattern is occasionally developed over isolated chambers. Fingeria is the only lineage of the whiteinellid stock that exhibits ornamentation coarsening and preferential orientation, which can be meridional or parallel to the periphery.


1948 ◽  
Vol S5-XVIII (1-3) ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Kikoine

Abstract Describes planktonic foraminifers belonging to the Heterohelicidae (including Gublerina cuvillieri n.g. n.sp.) from upper Cretaceous deposits of the French Pyrenees and discusses the evolution and classification of the family, with special reference to its stratigraphic significance.


1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1489-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Fox

A new therian mammal of primitive tribosphenic grade is described from the Upper Milk River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada, and its relationships to other primitive tribosphenic therians are discussed. The new therian and its presumed nearest relatives form the basis of a new family within the Order Aegialodontia. A revised classification of the Infraclass Tribotheria is presented.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4453 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI

Mastigitae comprise most unusual ant-like stone beetles, showing intriguing morphological characters and ecological adaptations. The largest adults among Scydmaeninae can be found in this group; some reaching nearly 9 mm in length, but there are also adults as small as 1.10 mm. Members of Leptomastacini are microphthalmous and depigmented; Mastigini are often black or contrastingly bicolored and have diurnal life style, adults of some species climbing bushes and trees. Papusini inhabit the driest North American deserts and are active during the warmest time of the year; other taxa live in subtropical forests; some are known to enter caves. Adults of some genera have enigmatic modifications of maxillary palps, postgenae or antennae, whose functions still remain unknown. In one genus the male genitalia are enormously elongate, so that these beetles have evolved a method of copulation not known in any other Coleoptera. The evolutionary history of Mastigitae is documented by fossils since the Upper Cretaceous, and extinct forms are even more 'extreme' in their spiny antennae and unusually elongate appendages than their extant relatives. Although phylogenetic hypotheses have been proposed to clarify the relationships and classification of Mastigitae, morphological structures of most genera remain undescribed. They are reviewed in the present synopsis, with detailed descriptions and illustrations of adult structures of all extant genera (Ablepton, Leptomastax, Taurablepton, Mastigus, Palaeostigus, Stenomastigus, Leptochromus, Clidicus and Papusus), with a brief review of known larval forms and fossils. Novel ecological data are given, with emphasis on habitat preferences and feeding behavior. The 'springtail trap' hypothesis for the spiny antennae of Mastigini is rejected, based on field observations and laboratory experiments. For the first time, details of feeding for Palaeostigus and Leptomastax are described. A checklist of species is given, and the main problems related to the classification, phylogeny and ecology of Mastigitae are discussed. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (29) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Karimou Laouali Idi ◽  
Abdoulwahid Sani ◽  
Moussa Konaté

L’analyse du remplissage sédimentaire du bassin des Iullemmeden pendant la période allant du Crétacé supérieur au Paléocène-Yprésien a permis de mettre en évidence une succession de 5 à 6 épisodes transgressifs. La succession verticale des faciès, identifiés pour cette période, comprend de la base au sommet : des grès calcaires et argiles à gypses, d'âge Turonien inférieur-Cénomanien supérieur mises en place pendant la transgression T1, des calcaires et argilites gypsifères, d'âge Turonien supérieur déposés au cours de la transgression T2, des calcaires et marnes sableuses, d'âge Sénonien inférieur et moyen rattachés à la transgression T3, des siltites et des argilites, d’âge maastrichtien, mises en place pendant la transgression T4 à Libycoceras ismaeli et Laffiteina bibensis et des argilo-calcaires d’âge paléocène-yprésien, associés aux transgressions T5 et T6 respectivement à Ranikothalia bermudezi et Lochkartia hamei. Néanmoins, il ressort une controverse dans la datation et le classement des différentes transgressions ainsi mise en évidence dans ce bassin des Iullemmeden. Ainsi, l’objectif principal de la présente étude est de proposer une synthèse des différentes transgressions identifiées dans ce bassin. La méthodologie mise en oeuvre est basé sur l'exploitation des données bibliographiques soutenue par des données lithostratigraphiques, paléontologiques, sédimentologiques. Les résultats de cette étude montrent que le bassin des Iullemmeden à été comblé par six ou sept transgressions marines au lieu de cinq ou six reconnues.  The analysis of the sedimentary infilling of the Iullemmeden basin during the period ranging from Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene-Ypresian has revealed a succession of 5 or 6 transgressive episodes. The vertical succession of facies, identified for this period, includes from the bottom to top: calcareous sandstones and gypsum clays, of Lower Turonian-Upper Cenomanian age, deposited during the T1 transgression, gypsiferous limestones and mudstones of Upper Turonian deposited during theT2 transgression, sandy limestones and marls of Lower and Middle Senonian age related to T3 transgression, siltstones and argillites, of Maastrichtian age, deposited during the T4 transgression with Libycoceras ismaeli and Laffiteina bibensis and clay-limestones of Paleocene-Ypresian age, associated with transgressions T5 and T6 respectively with Ranikothalia bermudezi and Lochkartia hamei. Nevertheless, a controversy emerges in the dating and the classification of the various transgressions thus highlighted in this basin of the Iullemmeden. Thus, the main objective of this study is to provide a synthesis of the various transgressions identified in this basin. The methodology implemented is based on the use of bibliographic data supported by lithostratigraphic, paleontological and sedimentological data. The results of this study show that the Iullemmeden basin was infilled by six or seven marine transgressions instead of five or six recognized.


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