• Bulk sampling of upper Campanian to lower-middle Maastrichtian coastal and lagoonal deposits in five sections of the Tremp Formation in the south-central Pyrenees yielded numerous neoselachian teeth. (palass.org)
  • In the following Maastrichtian stage, the number of North American dinosaur genera found is 30% less than in the upper Campanian. (wikipedia.org)
  • from the upper slope unit of the succession indicate a late Campanian-Maastrichtian age. (gov.pl)
  • The planktonic foraminifers within the red pelagic limestone beds, marls and mudstones throughout the succession consist mainly of Campanian-Maastrichtian forms and suggest mainly basinal depositional conditions. (gov.pl)
  • Thomson, M.R.A. . 1991 Campanian-Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) stratigraphy of the James Ross Island area, Antarctica. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • One of the most important outcrops of uppermost Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) sedimentary rocks in the southern high latitudes occurs within the James Ross Island group, northeastern Antarctic Peninsula. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • Campanian-Maastrichtian strata are contained within two component formations of the Upper Cretaceous-lower Tertiary Marambio Group. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • The correlation presented provides the basis for a formal subdivision of the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages in the southern high latitudes. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • It has also revealed two major basin shallowing events (in the late Campanian-early Maastrichtian and latest Maastrichtian, respectively) and the existence of a major fault/fault zone across southeastern James Ross Island. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • The entire Maastrichtian-lower Campanian zeolitic chalk section at the present site is considerably expanded. (tamu.edu)
  • Planktonic foraminiferal diversity, equitability and biostratigraphic analysis of samples from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 122, Hole 762C show that in general, cool water conditions prevailed during the latest Campanian-Maastrichtian in the eastern Indian Ocean. (researchgate.net)
  • From the southern North Sea Basin (i.e., southern Belgium [Mons Basin], northeast Belgium/southeast Netherlands [Liège- Limburg Basin] and parts of northwest Germany), previous cephalopod records from upper Upper Cretaceous (Santonian, Campanian and Maastrichtian) and Cenozoic strata are briefly discussed and new ones added. (spirula.nl)
  • Ammonites are confined to middle/upper Santonian-lowermost Paleocene (Danian) siliciclastic and carbonate strata, while belemnites do not range higher than the uppermost Maastrichtian. (spirula.nl)
  • New records discussed briefly herein include the Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonites Neophylloceras aff. (spirula.nl)
  • The ankylosaur material published in the last two decades from Campano-Maastrichtian sediments of southern France and northern Spain, including Struthiosaurus languedocensis Garcia and Pereda Suberbiola, 2003 ('Fuvelian' beds, Lower Campanian, France), is composed mainly of postcranial material (e.g. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • Findings have effectively quadrupled the dinosaur diversity in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the South Pyrenean Basin in Spain. (indiatimes.com)
  • These case studies comprise an analysis of a diverse ichno-assemblage found associated with the lectotype of the microboring Dendrina dendrina (Morris, 1851) in a belemnite from the upper Campanian to lower Maastrichtian chalk of Norfolk, England, and the description of two new bioerosion trace fossils with type specimens found in belemnite guards from the lower Campanian limestones of Höver, Germany. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Planktonic foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the uppermost Campanian and Maastrichtian at Zumaia, northern Spain. (mikrotax.org)
  • An emerging palaeoceanographic 'missing link': multidisciplinary study of rarely recovered parts of deep-sea Santonian-Campanian transition from Shatsky Rise. (iodp.org)
  • The stratigraphic interval from upper Turonian to uppermost Santonian can be resolved using bioevents recognized in the mid-high latitude sections. (researchgate.net)
  • The uppermost part of the Upper Cretaceous platform carbonates of the Bey Dağları Autochthon in the Korkuteli, Turkey, area is characterised by an association of hippuritid and radiolitid rudist bivalves dominated by Vaccinites praegiganteus (Toucas). (researchgate.net)
  • We correlate the well-developed uppermost Campanian and Maestrichtian sequences of the New Jersey Coastal Plain to the geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS) by integrating Sr-isotopic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy. (usgs.gov)
  • lt;p>At least two unconformity-bounded units comprise the uppermost Campanian to Maestrichtian strata in New Jersey. (usgs.gov)
  • The presence of Radotruncana cf. calcarata (Cushman) accompanied by Globotruncanita elevata (Brotzen) in the basinal unit of the succession indicates an early late Campanian age for the lower part of the succession. (gov.pl)
  • Ammonites within the Santa Marta Formation indicate an early to late Campanian age assignment. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • Locality and horizon NCSM 33393 and NCSM 33276 were recovered from Suicide Hill (NCPALEOUT11) and the Cliffs of Insanity Microsite (NCPALEOUT18), respectively, lower Mussentuchit Member, upper Cedar Mountain Formation, Emery County, Utah, USA (Fig. 1 ). (nature.com)
  • Molluscan data indicate a late Campanian-Palaeocene age range for this upper formation. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • A partial skull of ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Csehbánya Formation in Iharkút and the endocranial cast taken from it are described. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • Depositional processes and stratigraphic evolution of the Campanian deltaic system of la Anita Formation, Austral-Magallanes Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. (sedimentologia.org.ar)
  • The Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian Buda Formation and Coniacian-Campanian Austin Chalk Group of Texas and northern Mexico are calcareous mudrock (chalk) successions deposited on the drowned lower Cretaceous Comanche platform. (utexas.edu)
  • In North America, for example, the number of known dinosaur genera rises from 4 at the base of the Campanian to 48 in the upper part. (wikipedia.org)
  • A, paleobiogeographic map of most of North America during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) with the locality indicated by a red dot (modified from Sampson et al. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • An almost complete Upper Cretaceous sedimentary sequence recently recovered on the Kerguelen Plateau (southern Indian Ocean) during ODP Leg 183 was analysed for planktonic foraminifera in order to refine and integrate the zonal schemes previously proposed for the Southern Ocean area. (researchgate.net)
  • Upper Jurassic gray and red-brown shale, sandstone, and coal are the oldest strata penetrated by the Shell 272-1 and 273-1 wells, located approximately 66 mi (106 km) southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the northwest part of the Baltimore Canyon Trough. (usgs.gov)
  • The Lower Cretaceous strata, in a vertical sequence, consist of upper delta plain, lower delta plain, interdistributary bay and/or marginal marine, and distributary-mouth-bar deposits. (usgs.gov)
  • marine strata dominate the remainder of the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic. (usgs.gov)
  • The base of the Campanian Stage is defined as a place in the stratigraphic column where the extinction of crinoid species Marsupites testudinarius is located. (wikipedia.org)
  • The top of the Campanian stage is defined as the place in the stratigraphic column where the ammonite Pachydiscus neubergicus first appears. (wikipedia.org)
  • Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy, ODP Leg 198 (Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific Ocean). (mikrotax.org)
  • The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). (wikipedia.org)
  • Campanian spans the time from 83.6 (± 0.2) to 72.1 (± 0.2) million years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • The remains, which were excavated between 2016 and 2021, consist of a fragmented but almost complete pelvis and parts of the upper shell (carapace), and date to the Campanian Age, between 83.6 to 72.1 million years ago. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In the western interior of the United States, the base of the Middle Campanian is defined as the first occurrence of the ammonite Baculites obtusus (80.97 Ma) and the base of the Upper Campanian defined as the first occurrence of the ammonite Didymoceras nebrascense. (wikipedia.org)
  • They are, from young to old: zone of Nostoceras hyatti zone of Didymoceras chayennense zone of Bostrychoceras polyplocum zone of Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti / Hoplitoplacenticeras vari zone of Delawarella delawarensis zone of Placenticeras bidorsatum During the Campanian age, a radiation among dinosaur species occurred. (wikipedia.org)
  • A massive limestone from the upper Campanian Didymoceras cheyennense ammonite Zone is located at the top of the hill on the right and many limestone pieces are found downslope. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • A condensed glauconite-rich horizon visible in Core 207-1258B-44R separates the Campanian chalk from the ~56 m of black shales below (lithostratigraphic Unit IV) that compose or represent the lower part of OAEs 3 and 2. (tamu.edu)
  • 76.27 Ma) In the Tethys domain, the Campanian encompasses six ammonite biozones. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is a poorly studied prograding siliciclastic deltaic-coastal wedge accumulated in the Campanian during the foreland stage of the Austral-Magallanes Basin. (sedimentologia.org.ar)
  • The Upper Cretaceous section is dominated by slightly calcareous mudstone, but also contains a Coniacian to Campanian sandstone. (usgs.gov)
  • corresponding to the middle-late Campanian boundary interval. (gov.pl)
  • First record of Upper Turonian rudists (Mollusca, Hippuritoidea) in the Bey Da? (researchgate.net)
  • This is the first record of Upper Turonian rudists from Turkey. (researchgate.net)
  • We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.P.). The distribution of the Campanian Ignimbrite has been enhanced by the discovery of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers that are not visible to the naked eye) in archaeological cave sequences. (blogspot.com)
  • The Campanian can be subdivided into Lower, Middle and Upper Subages. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, it is not yet clear if the event is artificial, i.e. the low number of genera in the lower Campanian can be caused by a lower preservation chance for fossils in deposits of that age. (wikipedia.org)
  • The overlying upper slope and lower slope units of the sequence consist of an alternation of allochthonous calcarenite /calcirudite beds and pelagic marls and mudstones. (gov.pl)
  • Nannolith preservation does improve somewhat in the lower Campanian. (tamu.edu)
  • Both upper Turonian and middle-lower Turonian microfossil assemblages were distinguished. (tamu.edu)
  • Nautiloids are common at some levels within the Upper Cretaceous, but are much rarer in overlying lower to middle Danian carbonate deposits. (spirula.nl)
  • Amniote skulls display diverse architectural patterns including remarkable variations in the number of temporal arches surrounding the upper and lower temporal fenestrae. (bvsalud.org)
  • Radiolarians in this Campanian interval show moderate-good preservation. (tamu.edu)
  • The depositional environments of the Upper Jurassic rocks range from an upper delta plain facies penetrated in the two Shell wells and the B-2 well to a back-reef facies penetrated in the B-3 well. (usgs.gov)
  • Scientists have used 142 teeth to identify six non-avian dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous period that existed in the South Pyrenees Basin in Spain. (indiatimes.com)
  • Calcarenite / calcirudite beds dominate the upper slope unit of the succession and are composed of transported material, including benthic foraminifers, red algae, bryozoan, crinoid and rudist fragments, inoceramid bivalve prisms and neritic and pelagic carbonate lithoclasts. (gov.pl)
  • The occurrence of Helicorbitoides boluensis (Sirel) extracted from the calcarenite/calcirudite beds indicates a Campanian age. (gov.pl)
  • The generally warm climates and large continental area covered in shallow sea during the Campanian probably favoured the dinosaurs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. (blogspot.com)
  • In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Campanian was an age when a worldwide sea level rise covered many coastal areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • The upper unit deposits reflect a complete relative sea-level cycle which includes an undifferentiated lowstand and transgressive systems tracts and, toward the top, highstand systems tract. (sedimentologia.org.ar)
  • Mortimore and Wood, 1986), or the geologically much younger Early Campanian flints in the Harrow Hill Flint Mines in Sussex, England Fig. 7). (depositsmag.com)
  • This composition resembles assemblages known from the marine Upper Cretaceous, but differs from nearby localities of the Basque-Cantabrian region and continental selachian associations of the French Pyrenees. (palass.org)
  • Reference: "A gigantic bizarre marine turtle (Testudines: Chelonioidea) from the Middle Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of South-western Europe" by Oscar Castillo-Visa, Àngel H. Luján, Àngel Galobart and Albert Sellés, 17 November 2022, Scientific Reports . (scitechdaily.com)
  • a theropod dinosaur from the upper Cretaceous of Southern France). (scielo.br)
  • The Seven Sisters Flint Band at Dieppe West Cliff, Upper Normandy France, is a semi-continuous layer here with a cave system developed along its surface. (depositsmag.com)
  • Teeth are especially important in the study of Upper Cretaceous creatures in Spain and the rest of Europe because we don't have complete skeletons of theropods from that time in those locations,' Torices said. (indiatimes.com)