ライフサイエンスコーパス: Cretaceous

1 eserved crocodylomorph tracks from the Lower Cretaceous (?

2 during the last 20 million years of the Late Cretaceous.

3 vertebrate ecology in the Arctic during the Cretaceous.

4 ology has been static since at least the mid-Cretaceous.

5 imes the current diversity in the early Late Cretaceous.

6 were relatively common during the early Late Cretaceous.

7 controls on methane leakage since the Early Cretaceous.

8 the diversity of vascular cryptogams in the Cretaceous.

9 e is roughly at 90 million years ago in Late Cretaceous.

10 opical plant lineages that originated in the Cretaceous.

11 gies from the Early Jurassic until the Early Cretaceous.

12 intersex reproductive competition during the Cretaceous.

13 y courtship behaviour as far back as the mid-Cretaceous.

14 nt tribes during the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.

15 lades which were widespread during the Early Cretaceous.

16 fish Rhacolepis buccalis from the Brazilian Cretaceous.

17 ty Province during the Mid-Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous.

18 Most genera diverged in the Cretaceous.

19 ined for 165 million years to the end of the Cretaceous.

20 two major clades, in the middle of the Late Cretaceous.

21 richness and disparity throughout the Early Cretaceous.

22 ecially as temperatures decline later in the Cretaceous.

23 rst in the termites (Isoptera), in the Early Cretaceous.

24 ame diverse and abundant in the mid- to Late Cretaceous.

25 recorded maniraptoran bonebed from the Late Cretaceous.

26 tanding of angiosperm diversification in the Cretaceous.

27 e of low food availability at the end of the Cretaceous.

28 orrhyncha groups radiated rapidly during the Cretaceous.

29 d ecological dominance of angiosperms in the Cretaceous.

30 Indian subcontinent became separated in the Cretaceous.

31 s evidence of such adaptations in the Korean Cretaceous.

32 ds were still diversifying at the end of the Cretaceous.

33 ) Korea is the largest yet reported from the Cretaceous.

34 three Chinese localities, all from the Lower Cretaceous.

35 iation and possibly also origin in the Early Cretaceous.

36 enced their early diversification within the Cretaceous [1-9].

37 xtinction increased significantly in the Mid-Cretaceous (100 to 110 Ma) and remained high ever since.

38 history, which spanned the Jurassic and the Cretaceous (201 to 66 Ma), plesiosaurs repeatedly evolve

39 largely free-living Mesoporini from the mid-Cretaceous [7].

40 aviors of insects originated at least in mid-Cretaceous, accompanying the radiation of feathered dino

41 rocess approximately 91 Myr ago, in the late Cretaceous, after the low-nutrient regime period occurre

42 cribed in 2016, new avian remains trapped in Cretaceous-age Burmese amber continue to be uncovered, r

43 A Late Cretaceous-aged multi-taxon nesting site from Romania pr

44 ting analyses that consistently retrieve pre-Cretaceous ages for crown-group angiosperms have eroded

45 in kidney-shaped amber pieces from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) amber from Spain are studied.

46 l fuel types that diversified throughout the Cretaceous also altered fire behaviour, which should lin

47 Recent discoveries in Cretaceous amber from Canada, France, Japan, Lebanon, My

48 sternorrhynchans found as inclusions in mid-Cretaceous amber from Kachin state (northern Myanmar), w

49 ries of vertebrate remains trapped in middle Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar [1, 2] have provi

50 Cretaceous amber is also relatively abundant, yet it is

51 and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of th

52 This type of fossilized remain, abundant in Cretaceous ambers, was first interpreted as fossilized v

53 beetles that are exclusively described from Cretaceous ambers.

54 ersity subsequently rose dramatically in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic (145 million years ago-present),

55 five well-preserved lymexylid fossils in mid-Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers from Myanmar (ca. 99 mill

56 nsion of angiosperm-dominated forests in the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic had a profound effect on t

57 ersification in the Tethyan Ocean during the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic, and identifies an eastwar

58 t 500 million years, particularly during the Cretaceous and Ordovician, hydrothermal fluids had more

59 origin of Asteraceae at ~83 MYA in the late Cretaceous and reveals that the family underwent a serie

60 ation of fruiting bodies followed during the Cretaceous and the Paleogene, convergently giving rise t

61 are richly represented in sediments of Late Cretaceous and younger ages, there are no reliable recor

62 --which occurred approximately 100 Mya (Late Cretaceous) and was associated with a switch from bark t

63 deposits of various ages, as well as modern, Cretaceous, and Archean black shales.

64 ified in warm and wet habits during the Late Cretaceous, and the rapid diversification of genera from

65 eveloped huge size rapidly during the latest Cretaceous, and their success in the top predator role m

66 linating insects specifically during the mid-Cretaceous angiosperm radiation [12].

67 eed biology and germination ecology of Early Cretaceous angiosperms are sparse.

68 Critical scrutiny shows that supposed pre-Cretaceous angiosperms either represent other plant grou

69 Although many Early Cretaceous angiosperms fall within the morphological ran

70 ar, none provide unequivocal evidence of pre-Cretaceous angiosperms.

71 During the mid-Cretaceous, angiosperms diversified from several nondive

72 d-directed drainage system controlled by the Cretaceous Anza Graben and was stranded slightly above s

73 l of a non-avialan theropod preserved in mid-Cretaceous ( approximately 99 Ma) amber from Kachin Stat

74 three dimensions in a specimen from the Late Cretaceous (approximately 66 to 69 million years ago) of

75 t species, phenotypic syndromes found in the Cretaceous are without parallel and the evolutionary dri

76 e of a large, global sampling gap in the mid-Cretaceous, associated with an extreme sea-level rise.

77 Similar to the Cretaceous, asymmetry in reversal rates is seen in the P

78 r-than-present temperatures during the Early Cretaceous at southern high latitudes.

79 esent yet not fully established by the Early Cretaceous, at least in some lineages, and provides pala

80 t 125 million years ago, suggesting that mid-Cretaceous Australian sauropods represent remnants of cl

81 of follicles, feather tracts and apteria in Cretaceous avialans.

82 exture resembles that reported for two Lower Cretaceous avian theropods (birds) from China which had

83 d bark-is ecologically convergent with Early Cretaceous bark-beetle borings 120 million-years later.N

84 round the final 15 Myr of the North American Cretaceous before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, as

85 ntity of putative ovarian follicles in Early Cretaceous bird fossils from the Jehol Biota (China), wh

86 rkably, Welwitschiophyllum leaves from Early Cretaceous, Brazil provide the first chemical confirmati

87 The Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana strongly modified the glo

88 senius burmiticus, from two specimens in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber ( approximately 99 million year

89 ialized, and obligate termitophiles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (99 mya).

90 al description of insect inclusions from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber in astonishing detail.

91 hree-dimensionally preserved feathers in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber that share macro-morphological

92 senius burmiticus (Figure 1, left), from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, about 99 million years old.

93 hagous rove beetles (Staphylinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, the latter belonging to Oxypor

94 species of the stenine rove beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.

95 males of a platycnemidid damselfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.

96 eserved fossil cyclophoroideans from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.

97 eport six termite species preserved in Early Cretaceous (ca. 100 mya) amber from Myanmar, one describ

98 within Mesophthiridae fam. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Mya) Myanmar (Burmese) amber.

99 in Asia and North America during the latest Cretaceous (ca. 80-66 million years ago).

100 of the batrachian lineage, the record of pre-Cretaceous caecilians is limited to a single species, Eo

101 The latest Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian [83-66 Ma]) of North

102 Here, we show that the Cretaceous-Cenozoic radiation was driven by increased di

103 Unconfined Cretaceous Chalk bedrock regions yielded the highest med

104 le Eocene of Victoria) and New Zealand (Late Cretaceous Chatham Islands).

105 The most immediate effects of the terminal-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact, essential to understanding

106 r another borioteiioid, Tianyusaurus zhengi (Cretaceous, China).

107 The Early Cretaceous Chinese Jehol Biota has yielded several such

108 e or DT volcanism was not the source of Late Cretaceous climate change.

109 arriers would have played a key role in Late Cretaceous climate changes.

110 by new pollenivorous pollinators during the Cretaceous co-evolution of insects and flowers.

111 P. antarcticus and Cretaceous Coelosmilia skeletons share a unique microstr

112 ike tissues from the lower hindlimb of Early Cretaceous Confuciusornis.

113 ree lizard track assemblages from the Korean Cretaceous constitute the entire global lizard track rec

114 significant biotic decline during the latest Cretaceous, contrary to previous studies.

115 h foot lengths (FL) in the 2-8 cm range, and Cretaceous Crocodylopodus (FL up to ~9.0 cm) known only

116 A monocot from the Early Cretaceous developed a cluster of anatomically similar r

117 Late Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages of North America-charact

118 rounding the effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution.

119 tralia, that have important implications for Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography.

120 of crustaceans and rotted wood by large Late Cretaceous dinosaurs.

121 evolved in North America, as part of a Late Cretaceous diversification of metatherians, and later di

122 in the complexity of groups refilling relict Cretaceous ecospace.

123 ly forsterae gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous epoch of Madagascar that possesses a long and

124 usual group of large-bodied theropods of the Cretaceous era-were semi-aquatic(7,8), but this idea has

125 ved warming events, directly linking the end-Cretaceous extinction at this site to both volcanic and

126 uriasaurs as a lineage survived the Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction boundary and expanded their known

127 last diverse dinosaur faunas before the end-Cretaceous extinction.

128 e fish radiation in the aftermath of the end-Cretaceous extinction.

129 within the amber belongs to Cretamyzidae, a Cretaceous family suggested to bark-feed on conifers.

130 ncave ventral surface of the rachis of these Cretaceous feathers is not homologous with the ventral g

131 been a less important feedback to changes in Cretaceous fire activity than previously estimated.

132 oldest basal tyrannosauroids and the latest Cretaceous forms.

133 Here we describe an Early Cretaceous fossil frog specimen, genus Genibatrachus, th

134 Major spatiotemporal gaps in the Gondwanan Cretaceous fossil record, coupled with taxon incompleten

135 frustrating 20+ million-year gap in the mid-Cretaceous fossil record, when tyrannosauroids transitio

136 elled egg, so richly represented in the Late Cretaceous fossil record.

137 Three Cretaceous fossils have strongly reduced, shortened elyt

138 list predators [2, 5, 7, 11, 12], while some Cretaceous fossils suggest group recruitment and sociall

139 is largely based on Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous fossils.

140 fire behaviour driven by the addition of new Cretaceous fuel groups may have assisted the angiosperm

141 ate Triassic and Paleogene of Tasmania; Late Cretaceous Gippsland Basin in Victoria; Paleocene and la

142 Since their origin in the early Cretaceous, grasses have diversified across every contin

143 d from the outer shelf deposits of the Upper Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation of the Yezo Group in Hobe

144 ling Program (at Site U1346) recovered early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) ostracod and foraminiferal asse

145 However, all termites known from the Cretaceous have, until now, only been winged reproductiv

146 g from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous) have been characterized as apex predators [2

147 riform iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group of Gansu Province, China has the

148 ge of unusual sauropod tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group of Gansu Province, northern China

149 ibula of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation previously found to exhi

150 al assigned to the polypterid lineage is mid-Cretaceous in age (around 100 million years old), implyi

151 d species proliferations throughout the Late Cretaceous instead.

152 In particular, the Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary, 145 million years ago, remain

153 opod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Liaoning, China.

154 d assemblage of lizard tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Sindong Group, Gyeongsang Ba

155 based on two fossil specimens from the Late Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar.

156 The cause of the end-Cretaceous (KPg) mass extinction is still debated due to

157 mb of an enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous limestones of Las Hoyas, Spain, which reveals

158 Its similarity to other Early Cretaceous lobate leaves, many identified previously as

159 notypic genera have been found in the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) deposits of this region.

160 sisting of a partial skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of New Mexico, the first diag

161 s that the APMB growth rate exceeds the peak Cretaceous magmatic flare-up in the Sierran batholith.

162 ified together with mercury anomalies in End-Cretaceous marine sediments coeval with the Deccan Traps

163 Because most Cretaceous marine vertebrates already disappeared in the

164 taceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) and end-Cretaceous mass extinction are commonly hailed as cataly

165 The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing

166 The end-Cretaceous mass extinction wiped out the dinosaurs, incl

167 the North American Cretaceous before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, as well as small-bodied fore

168 t to the ecological shifts following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, our data show that the early

169 e persistence of crown birds through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

170 inct roughly 30 million years before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

171 ly thought to have become extinct during the Cretaceous mass extinction.

172 discovery of a unique mode of life among mid-Cretaceous mesochrysopids, an early stem group to modern

173 plete skull remains of a North American Late Cretaceous metatherian, the stagodontid Didelphodon vora

174 xamples include Jurassic mammaliaforms, Late Cretaceous metatherians, and Cenozoic placentals.

175 Composite plutons of Cretaceous monzodiorite and gabbro were emplaced at 1.2

176 One clade, Pseudopolycentropodidae, from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber, contains Parapolycentropus.

177 he sister taxon of the North American latest Cretaceous Nanocuris.

178 d environmental modelling to quantify latest Cretaceous North American dinosaur habitat.

179 ioteiioid lizard Polyglyphanodon sternbergi (Cretaceous, North America), we detected a heretofore unr

180 g intervals of intense deoxygenation such as Cretaceous ocean anoxic event (OAE) 2, a few regional se

181 ntervals of environmental upheaval, like the Cretaceous Ocean-Anoxic-Event-2 (OAE-2).

182 s been proposed that the subaerial phases of Cretaceous oceanic plateau formation spurred the global

183 elta markmitchelli gen. nov., from the Early Cretaceous of Alberta, which preserves integumentary str

184 odified forelimbs, are known mostly from the Cretaceous of Asia and South America.

185 on of these dinosaurs during the very latest Cretaceous of Asia, which helped establish one of the la

186 equivocal fossil hagfish from the early Late Cretaceous of Lebanon.

187 xtinct giant frogs (Beelzebufo ampinga, Late Cretaceous of Madagascar) probably could bite with force

188 alezparejasi gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza Province, Argentina.

189 ionally preserved mesofossils from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia.

190 szkaraptor escuilliei was described from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.

191 Filikomys primaevus gen. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Montana, primarily occurring as multi-indi

192 osaurian dinosaurs were abundant in the Late Cretaceous of North America, but their habitats remain p

193 o new sauropod specimens from the early Late Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia, that have important

194 ew, highly unusual pliosaurid from the Early Cretaceous of Russia that shows close convergence with t

195 re we report on fossil tanaidaceans from the Cretaceous of Spain and France that provide conclusive e

196 atosaurus transsylvanicus from the uppermost Cretaceous of the Haeg Basin in Romania.

197 romaeosaurid to be recovered from the latest Cretaceous of the southern United States (southern Laram

198 id-sized allosauroid theropod from the Early Cretaceous of the UK.

199 e for the first 160 million y (Permian-Early Cretaceous) of evolution in neopterygian fishes (the mor

200 enus Minisauripus, from the Jinju Formation (Cretaceous) of Korea reveal exquisitely preserved skin t

201 from the lower Yellow Cat Member (Early Cretaceous) of Utah (USA), is the first recognized membe

202 ecent molecular clock dating has suggested a Cretaceous origin, but the lack of deep sampling of many

203 xity of planktic foraminifer tests after the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction.

204 s richness between the Late Triassic and the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) boundary, strongly supporti

205 recent and intensively studied event is the Cretaceous - Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary (ca. 66 million y

206 The southernmost Cretaceous - Paleogene (K-Pg) outcrop exposure is the we

207 sification at the backbone occurred near the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary (65 Mya) which is c

208 Mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary coincides with the

209 stimate the origin of Schizophora within the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, about 68.3 Ma.

210 hicxulub bolide impact, is implicated in the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction approximately 66

211 right up to their final disappearance at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 Mya

212 Debate continues about the nature of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event.

213 set off a sequence of events that led to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction of 76% speci

214 ccan Traps (DT) volcanism contributed to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) ecosystem crisis.

215 ater basins of East Asia and Europe near the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, probably via a continuous

216 t, the amount estimated to be present at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, produce what might have b

217 d to investigate goethite spherules from the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, revealing the internal el

218 tinuous Deccan eruptive activity spanned the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, which is renowned for the

219 rly at the time of their extinction near the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

220 rest lineages, but did not change across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

221 ovinces, whose eruption played a role in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

222 achieved their remarkable success after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

223 tic change occurred in the Neoaves after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction rather than earlier in b

224 ronmental and biotic collapses that mark the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, are poorly resolved des

225 e poorly known first million years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction (KPgE).

226 arance at ~115 million years ago; before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and ~30 million yea

227 tory strategies, and survivorship across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.

228 fts occurred rapidly in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction within Neoaves, in

229 ore, ADHFs were relatively unaffected by the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

230 hat Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic, and Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinctions were geologically

231 rom benthic molluscs) from a highly expanded Cretaceous-Paleogene succession: the Lopez de Bertodano

232 fold expansion of species richness after the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary deserves further ex

233 l local richness abruptly tripled across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, but did not increase over

234 y the late Carboniferous; and (2) across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary.

235 The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, 66 Ma, included th

236 In the lead-up to the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, dinosaur diversity

237 northern Andes (5 degrees S) during the late Cretaceous period (around 80 million years ago) and prop

238 d in nearshore marine deposits from the Late Cretaceous period (roughly 68 million years ago) of Anta

239 atest age (72.1-66 million years ago) of the Cretaceous period from Madagascar that we assign to a ne

240 sperms (flowering plants) evolved during the Cretaceous period more than 100 mya and quickly colonize

241 The Cretaceous Period stands out in Earth's geologic history

242 The mid-Cretaceous period was one of the warmest intervals of th

243 rown birds are known to have occurred in the Cretaceous period(1-3), but stem-lineage representatives

244 esence of protein residues in fossils of the Cretaceous period(5)-although with limited phylogenetic

245 giosperms evolved and diversified during the Cretaceous period.

246 a key extinct group of Late Permian to Early Cretaceous plants, are important for understanding seed

247 ere is by far the most comprehensive case of Cretaceous plateau emergence at northern Shatsky Rise, N

248 Our knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itsel

249 independent paleopolyploidy during the Late Cretaceous prior to the diversification of the genus but

250 om the West Antarctic shelf-the southernmost Cretaceous record reported so far-and show that a temper

251 Late Cretaceous records of climate change coincide temporally

252 Late Cretaceous records of environmental change suggest that

253 perms has been regarded as a trigger for the Cretaceous revolution of terrestrial ecosystems.

254 scular plants and a key driver of the abrupt Cretaceous rise of the angiosperms.

255 no reliable records of angiosperms from pre-Cretaceous rocks.

256 sp. nov. comprises one of the most complete Cretaceous sauropod skeletons ever found in Australia, w

257 Only one example, the Cretaceous scleractinian coral Coelosmilia (ca. 70 to 65

258 face evaporitic environments, similar to the Cretaceous sediment paleoenvironment.

259 ur knowledge based on compression fossils in Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, adding details of three-di

260 2 m in diameter, occur abundantly at several Cretaceous sites in Colorado.

261 consistent with their derivation from a Late Cretaceous source rock in the nearby Bight Basin, an int

262 n and inner ear characteristic of the latest Cretaceous species.

263 China, we report a new genus and species of Cretaceous stem therian mammal that displays decoupling

264 Though Cretaceous stem-group ants were eusocial and adaptively

265 The abundance of dinosaur eggs in Upper Cretaceous strata of Henan Province, China led to the co

266 ically specialized oxyporines from the Early Cretaceous suggests the existence of diverse Agaricomyce

267 Similar to the Cretaceous superchron, unusually long-duration chrons ch

268 We suggest that early Cretaceous surface environments might have been affected

269 These eusocial Cretaceous taxa diverged from extant lineages prior to t

270 ion with additional records of combined Late Cretaceous temperatures and mercury concentrations of bi

271 ermes are in the basal "Meiatermes-grade" of Cretaceous termites.

272 sformative events in Earth's history and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) and end-Cretaceo

273 of flight or complete metamorphosis nor the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution environmental changes

274 ajor past environmental changes, such as the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, or the development of

275 -forest ADHFs arose later, by the end of the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution.

276 (2) Environmental stresses during the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) mass extinction caused range co

277 heaval, including the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (c.

278 gen degassing and its potential role for the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction.

279 the last major mass extinction boundary, the Cretaceous-Tertiary/K-T (66 Myr), a number of Scleractin

280 For the mid-Cretaceous, the low (87)Sr/(86)Sr of seawater requires e

281 climatic cooling events that terminated the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum and the Early Eocene Climatic

282 aquatic context, so far in pliosaurids, the Cretaceous theropod Spinosaurus, and the related spinosa

283 pical avian behaviour hitherto unknown among Cretaceous theropods, and most likely associated with te

284 nique to living hagfish appeared well before Cretaceous times.

285 nd the Trans-Tethyan subduction zone in Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene time, followed by the coll

286 hic marine communities preserved in the late Cretaceous to Eocene strata on the Gulf Coastal Plain (U

287 We present early Cretaceous to present paleobathymetric reconstructions a

288 cus of innovation cannot be explained by the Cretaceous to recent expansion of diversity on land.

289 ebound of the plateau region during the late Cretaceous to the Eocene.

290 The radiation of flowering plants in the mid-Cretaceous transformed landscapes and is widely believed

291 of short-necked plesiosaurians until a Late Cretaceous (Turonian) collapse to a unimodal landscape c

292 enetic (ancestor-descendant) lineage of Late Cretaceous tyrannosaurids.

293 itability and heat of combustion in analogue Cretaceous understorey fuels (conifer litter, ferns, wee

294 related clade Polycotylidae (middle to Late Cretaceous) were thought to have been fast-swimming pisc

295 isotopic and astronomical timescale from the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of what is now North A

296 as the atmospheric CO2 declined through the Cretaceous, whereas gymnosperms with a low gmax would ex

297 angiosperm-dominated forests during the mid-Cretaceous, whereas non-forest ADHFs arose later, by the

298 estimated to have originated during the Late Cretaceous with evidence for rapid diversification event

299 chweitzerae gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with an unlaid egg two-dimen

300 t mammal from the Lujiatun site of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China.