ライフサイエンスコーパス: Cretaceous

1 nal ~70 million years (Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous).

2 in atmospheric CO2 (e.g. in the Jurassic and Cretaceous).

3 were relatively common during the early Late Cretaceous.

4 richness and disparity throughout the Early Cretaceous.

5 ecially as temperatures decline later in the Cretaceous.

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

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

8 recorded maniraptoran bonebed from the Late Cretaceous.

9 tanding of angiosperm diversification in the Cretaceous.

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

11 c calcifiers and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous.

12 on years from the Early Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.

13 ll-preserved angiosperm seeds from the Early Cretaceous.

14 emblages from shallow coastal seas since the Cretaceous.

15 dden increase of lineage accumulation in the Cretaceous.

16 ation of holometabolous insects to the Early Cretaceous.

17 s that the clade endured there into the Late Cretaceous.

18 ncy during the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous.

19 opical plant lineages that originated in the Cretaceous.

20 istributed widely across Laurasia during the Cretaceous.

21 into their biogeographic history during the Cretaceous.

22 icates acanthomorphs originated in the Early Cretaceous.

23 rom the Middle Jurassic until the early Late Cretaceous.

24 gies from the Early Jurassic until the Early Cretaceous.

25 intersex reproductive competition during the Cretaceous.

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

27 nt tribes during the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.

28 lades which were widespread during the Early Cretaceous.

29 fish Rhacolepis buccalis from the Brazilian Cretaceous.

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

31 the diversity of vascular cryptogams in the Cretaceous.

32 Most genera diverged in the Cretaceous.

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

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

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

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

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

38 neage diversification only began in the Late Cretaceous (97 Ma).

39 tionary regimes is coincident with the Early Cretaceous adaptive radiation of birds, supporting contr

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

41 ding test with a quartzarenite plug of Lower Cretaceous age representative of the secondary reservoir

42 oducing bacteria and thereby stabilizes this Cretaceous-age defensive mutualism.

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

44 inus L. split into two subgenera by the Late Cretaceous, although subgenus Strobus (D.

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

46 discovery of a green lacewing larva in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain with specialized cuticular p

47 ch a specialized pollination mode from Early Cretaceous amber of Spain, wherein four female thrips re

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

49 McKellar et al. analyzed Late Cretaceous amber specimens from Canada and identified so

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

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

52 rsified relatively recently, during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene, although the exact timin

53 in the pelagic fish community in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene.

54 ith a warm climate mode for the Jurassic and Cretaceous and hence support the view that changes in at

55 antalizing glimpse of bizarre insects in the Cretaceous and Jurassic.

56 a. 230 Ma) is globally anomalous for the pre-Cretaceous and may, alternatively, be related to paleocl

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

58 h and lower jaw fragments recovered from the Cretaceous and Palaeogene of the Southern Hemisphere, th

59 desertic belts between the Triassic and the Cretaceous and the subsequent onset of long-lasting humi

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

61 dependent of oxygen fluctuations, during the Cretaceous and, at a smaller size, the Cenozoic.

62 from ~100 million year old sediments (Upper Cretaceous) and are both morphologically and phylogeneti

63 feathers preserved in amber (Miocene to mid-Cretaceous) and in a feather preserved as a compression

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

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

66 in Asia and North America during the latest Cretaceous, and most species had deep skulls that allowe

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

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

69 n-fixing lineages originated during the Late Cretaceous, and two more emerged during the Eocene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

77 describe a four-limbed snake from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of Brazil.

78 Lower Cretaceous aquatic angiosperms, such as Archaefructus an

79 d unexplained rise of angiosperms during the Cretaceous as an "abominable mystery." The diversificati

80 was geographically widespread across latest Cretaceous Asia and formed an important component of ter

81 uate the dataset upon which the Jurassic and Cretaceous assertions are based and present new temperat

82 ronmental catastrophe in the wake of the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact had drastic effects that ripp

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

84 n major dinosaur subgroups during the latest Cretaceous, at both global and regional scales.

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

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

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

88 irds diversified throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, becoming capable fliers with supercharged gr

89 The Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana strongly modified the glo

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

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

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

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

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

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

96 these cycles from the Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous by analyzing new stable isotope datasets refl

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

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

99 eserved fishes and crustaceans from the Late Cretaceous (ca. 95 million years (Myr) old).

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

101 These Cretaceous 'calcispheres' have previously been considere

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

105 cological variation than the pliosaurid-like Cretaceous clade Polycotylidae.

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

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

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

109 The Cretaceous Coniophis precedens was among the first Mesoz

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

111 idence required to unravel the cause of Late Cretaceous cooling, but high-quality data remain illusiv

112 denticles outnumber ray-finned fish teeth in Cretaceous deep-sea sediments around the world, there is

113 Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits from northeastern China have yielded

114 We examined samples from eight Cretaceous dinosaur bones using nano-analytical techniqu

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

116 Late Cretaceous dinosaur evolution, therefore, was complex: t

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

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

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

120 Increased Late Cretaceous diversity derives from intensive North Americ

121 ersity of blood-feeding insects in the Early Cretaceous, enriching our knowledge of paleoecological a

122 t the Deccan Traps contributed to the latest Cretaceous environmental change and biologic turnover th

123 mpling, but subsampling indicates that Early Cretaceous European/Asian diversity may have exceeded th

124 The end-Cretaceous event (66 Mya) is intriguing in this regard,

125 growth rates, but were decimated at the end-Cretaceous extinction alongside their close dinosaurian

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

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

128 acerbated the impact and severity of the end-Cretaceous extinction, at least in North America.

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

130 The Early Cretaceous fauna of Victoria, Australia, provides unique

131 thers in the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx and Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs had the same arrangement.

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

133 Here we show that the Early Cretaceous five-winged paravian Microraptor is most stab

134 aleobotany provides many detailed studies of Cretaceous floras for analysis.

135 even as atmospheric pO(2) rose in the Early Cretaceous following the evolution and radiation of earl

136 rannosauroids, which went on to dominate end-Cretaceous food webs.

137 oldest basal tyrannosauroids and the latest Cretaceous forms.

138 along a large-field (LF) scan, applied on a Cretaceous fossil of a shrimp (area approximately 280 mm

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

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

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

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

143 of environmental factors has been suggested, Cretaceous global climate change has barely been conside

144 The Late Cretaceous 'greenhouse' world witnessed a transition fro

145 Declining CO(2) over the Cretaceous has been suggested as an evolutionary driver

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

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

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

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

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

151 thin a stratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (HCF) of Montana reveals

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

153 d species proliferations throughout the Late Cretaceous instead.

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

155 ptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China.

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

157 ery of a troodontid tooth from the uppermost Cretaceous Kallamedu Formation in the Cauvery Basin of S

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

159 ry was prolonged; diversity did not approach Cretaceous levels until 10 My after the extinction, and

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

161 uid mixing processes in the subseafloor of a Cretaceous Lost City-type hydrothermal system at the mag

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

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

164 constructed on dark-gray shale of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale.

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

166 e assessed ecological changes across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction based on molluscan assemblage

167 The Chicxulub bolide impact caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction of plants, but the associated

168 he squamate fossil record shows that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was far more severe than prev

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

170 me exhibit no shifts associated with the end Cretaceous mass extinction, but there is a global decrea

171 e (India) are two proposed causes of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, which includes the demise of

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

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

174 phological diversification following the end Cretaceous mass extinction; however, the role of this ev

175 t with the Chicxulub impact and the terminal-Cretaceous mass extinctions, after which ~70% of the Tra

176 the recoveries from the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous mass extinctions.

177 leading candidates for the cause of terminal-Cretaceous mass extinctions.

178 diverse and widespread radiation of Jurassic-Cretaceous megapredators.

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

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

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

182 pecies is the southern-most record of a Late Cretaceous multituberculate from outside of the Mongolia

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

184 ian diversity may have exceeded that of Late Cretaceous North America.

185 er in the Chesapeake crater is remnant Early Cretaceous North Atlantic (ECNA) sea water.

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

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

188 5)N (<-2 per thousand) in sediments from the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events and the Archean Eon.

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

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

191 d in dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica that drastically pushes back th

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

193 n only as compression fossils from the Early Cretaceous of China and Brazil.

194 ur fossils from the Upper-Jurassic and Lower-Cretaceous of China.

195 famous 'feathered dinosaurs' from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, northeastern China, inc

196 en. and sp. nov., is reported from the Upper Cretaceous of Luanchuan County, Henan Province, China.

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

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

199 s andrewsi, a therizinosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia, different morphological configur

200 ionally preserved mesofossils from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia.

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

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

203 ith a diverse fauna of basal snakes from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, and India, this sna

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

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

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

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

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

209 dispersed to India from Laurasia in the Late Cretaceous, or whether a broader Gondwanan distribution

210 radiation of crown birds in the wake of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) mass extinction.

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

212 origin or several, arose before or after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene transition 66.2 million years ago,

213 pitated from mixed fluids ca. 65 m below the Cretaceous paleo-seafloor at temperatures of 31.7 +/- 4.

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

215 The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary is marked by a majo

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

217 t six times in core Lamiales (CL) around the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, and seven more in

218 time of origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 phe

219 that a single placental ancestor crossed the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary.

220 tection of fast radiations subsequent to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) event.

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

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

223 We find that the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) extinction event marked a pr

224 Ar data that establish synchrony between the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and associated mass extinc

225 ruptions initiated ~250,000 years before the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and that >1.1 million cubi

226 al analyses of mammalian groups crossing the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary are lacking.

227 r thousand drop in delta(7)Li(SW) across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary cannot be produced by an i

228 The mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, approximately 66 Ma, is t

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

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

231 non-avian dinosaurs and continued across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

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

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

234 most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million ye

235 occurred during a rapid radiation after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event about 66 mill

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

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

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

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

240 A Late Cretaceous peak in 'global' non-marine subsampled richne

241 to geographic sampling) also recovers a Late Cretaceous peak, suggesting genuine geographic range exp

242 in angiosperm diversity happened during the Cretaceous period (ca. 145-65 Ma) and led to replacement

243 after the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period approximately 66 million years ago, an

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

245 rsification of angiosperms through the Early Cretaceous period, between about 130-100 million years a

246 e with the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.

247 giosperms evolved and diversified during the Cretaceous period.

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

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

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

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

252 The skull of the Cretaceous pterosaur Istiodactylus latidens, a historica

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

254 well as various groups of animals during the Cretaceous revolution of terrestrial ecosystems.

255 laeomagnetic studies of Palaeoproterozoic to Cretaceous rocks propose a suite of large and relatively

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

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

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

259 itanosaur, Dreadnoughtus schrani, from Upper Cretaceous sediments in southern Patagonia, Argentina.

260 The Pleistocene Alma basalt abuts the Cretaceous Senonian Kerem Ben Zimra chalk.

261 2 m in diameter, occur abundantly at several Cretaceous sites in Colorado.

262 ore their final extinction in the early Late Cretaceous (skull lengths up to 1750 mm).

263 arance in the Early Jurassic until the Early Cretaceous (skull lengths up to 2360 mm).

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

265 Though Cretaceous stem-group ants were eusocial and adaptively

266 mplete and well-preserved cranium from Upper Cretaceous strata in Madagascar that we assign to a new

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

275 lires and Laurasiatheria 100 Mya, during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution.

276 on years ago and could not be related to the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction as previously inferr

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

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

279 with high palaeolatitude occurrences and the Cretaceous thermal maximum (CTM): however, this peak als

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

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

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

283 Late Cretaceous titanosaurid eggshells yield temperatures sim

284 ing the origins of the 31 included clades in Cretaceous to Cenozoic times.

285 We present early Cretaceous to present paleobathymetric reconstructions a

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

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

288 At the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition, marine taxa exhibit minimal diver

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

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

291 ong-lasting humid conditions during the Late Cretaceous were driven by the breakup of Pangea and were

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

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

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

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

296 sal Sclerodermatineae originated in the late Cretaceous while major genera diversified near the mid C

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

298 The lower Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang formations contain numer

299 ng two new genera and species from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Northeastern China.

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