A geological history of the Turkana Basin

CS Feibel - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Turkana Basin preserves a long and detailed record of biotic evolution, cultural
development, and rift valley geology in its sedimentary strata. Before the formation of the …

Geochronology of the Turkana depression of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia

FH Brown, I Mcdougall - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the Turkana Depression of northern Kenya
and southern Ethiopia rest on basement rocks that yield K/Ar cooling ages between 433 and …

Late Cretaceous bioconnections between Indo‐Madagascar and Antarctica: refutation of the Gunnerus Ridge causeway hypothesis

JR Ali, DW Krause - Journal of Biogeography, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim To evaluate the Gunnerus Ridge land‐bridge hypothesis, which postulates a
Late Cretaceous causeway between eastern Antarctica and southern Madagascar allowing …

A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt

E Gorscak, MC Lamanna, D Schwarz… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Dinosaur fossils from the latest Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of Africa and the
Arabian Peninsula are rare. Most discoveries to date have consisted of limited fossils that …

Functional and phylogenetic signals in the pectoral girdle of Thalattosuchia and Dyrosauridae (Crocodylomorpha)

I Scavezzoni, MM Johnson, S Jouve… - The Anatomical …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Crocodylomorphs have colonized various environments from fully terrestrial to fully aquatic,
making it an important clade among archosaurs. A remarkable example of the rich past …

OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA …

DW Krause, SD Sampson, MT Carrano… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We review the historical sequence of discoveries of Majungasaurus crenatissimus, an
abelisaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation …

A new longirostrine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene of north‐eastern Colombia: biogeographic and behavioural implications for …

AK Hastings, JI Bloch, CA Jaramillo - Palaeontology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fossils of dyrosaurid crocodyliforms are limited in South America, with only three previously
diagnosed taxa including the short‐snouted Cerrejonisuchus improcerus from the …

The second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania, with remarks on African titanosaurian …

E Gorscak, PM O'Connor, EM Roberts… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The paleobiogeographic significance of continental Africa during the middle and Late
Cretaceous is not well understood, in part due to incomplete sampling from large portions of …

Additions to the sauropod dinosaur fauna of the Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) Kem Kem beds of Morocco: palaeobiogeographical implications of the mid …

PD Mannion, PM Barrett - Cretaceous Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Determining the relationships of mid-Late Cretaceous African taxa is central to
understanding the timing and resultant palaeobiogeographical patterns of Gondwanan …

Stratigraphy, sedimentology and diagenetic evolution of the Lapur Sandstone in northern Kenya: Implications for oil exploration of the Meso-Cenozoic Turkana …

JJ Tiercelin, JL Potdevin, PK Thuo, Y Abdelfettah… - Journal of African Earth …, 2012 - Elsevier
The northern Turkana region of northwestern Kenya forms the intersection between two
major rift systems in Africa, the Cretaceous–Paleogene Central African Rift System (CARS) …