Novel fossil discoveries have contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary
appearance of parasitism in flatworms. Furthermore, genetic analyses with greater coverage …

Lacustrine black shales are widely developed within the Late Cretaceous Nenjiang
Formation (k 2 n) of the Songliao Basin. These black shales provide an ideal natural …

Fossil biogenic apatites were studied for their geochemical composition across the late
Cretaceous–early Eocene Moroccan phosphate series in the Ouled Abdoun and Ganntour …

Background Basal iguanodontian dinosaurs were extremely successful animals, found in
great abundance and diversity almost worldwide during the Early Cretaceous. In contrast to …

Pycnodont fishes were a successful clade of neopterygian fishes that are predominantly
found in shallow marine deposits. However, throughout their long 180 million year reign …

Abstract The Songliao Basin (SLB) located in northeastern China is one of the largest
Cretaceous continental sedimentary basins in the world. The SLB is filled with sediments …

Purpose The record of fossil turtles of the Iberian Peninsula is abundant and diverse,
considering both the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic forms. The knowledge about the Iberian …

With the discovery of the Bozhong 19–6 large gas field in the Bohai Bay Basin, the study of
lacustrine source rocks in the southwestern Bozhong Sag has garnered new interest. In this …

A major challenge in sequence stratigraphy is objectively identifying stratigraphic surfaces
and sequences across multiple scales of observation. Identification is commonly dependent …

Pedogenic nodules, calcitic shells, dispersed organic carbon and bulk rocks affected by low
diagenesis are judged to be reliable tools for carbon-isotope chemostratigraphy. Up to now …