High-resolution geochronology of sedimentary strata by U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS zircon geochronology: A review

T Wang, J Ramezani, C Yang, J Yang, Q Wu… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sedimentary rocks are one of the most abundant repositories of Earth history, preserving
records of climate change, tectonic events, atmospheric and hydrospheric chemistry, and …

Exceptionally preserved stomach contents of a young tyrannosaurid reveal an ontogenetic dietary shift in an iconic extinct predator

F Therrien, DK Zelenitsky, K Tanaka, JT Voris… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tyrannosaurids were large carnivorous dinosaurs that underwent major changes in skull
robusticity and body proportions as they grew, suggesting that they occupied different …

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

SG Dalman, MA Loewen, RA Pyron, SE Jasinski… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tyrannosaurid dinosaurs dominated as predators in the Late Cretaceous of Laurasia,
culminating in the evolution of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex, both the last and largest …

Recommendations for the reporting and interpretation of isotope dilution U-Pb geochronological information

D Condon, B Schoene, M Schmitz… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-Pb geochronology by isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass spectrometry (ID-TIMS)
has the potential to be the most precise and accurate of the deep time chronometers …

Calibrating geologic strata, dinosaurs, and other fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) using a new CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

DA Eberth, DC Evans, J Ramezani… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
The 100 m thick stratigraphic section exposed at Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP; southern
Alberta) contains bentonites that have been used for more than 30 years to date DPP's rocks …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and Evolution of the Azolla Superorganism

J Bujak, A Bujak - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Azolla is the only plant with a co-evolving nitrogen-fixing (diazotrophic) cyanobacterial
symbiont (cyanobiont), Nostoc azollae, resulting from whole-genome duplication (WGD) 80 …

Reconnaissance basement geology and tectonics of North Zealandia

N Mortimer, S Williams, M Seton, A Calvert… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
New rock dredge samples supply key information to establish the tectonic and geological
framework of the northern two‐thirds of the 95% submerged Zealandia continent. The R/V …

Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae

CV Miller, JA Bright, X Wang, X Zheng, M Pittman - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Enantiornithines were the dominant birds of the Mesozoic, but understanding of their diet is
still tenuous. We introduce new data on the enantiornithine family Bohaiornithidae, famous …

[HTML][HTML] An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America

LE Zanno, TA Gates, HM Avrahami, RT Tucker… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Intensifying macrovertebrate reconnaissance together with refined age-dating of mid-
Cretaceous assemblages in recent decades is producing a more nuanced understanding of …

Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the non-marine Cretaceous of Utah

JI Kirkland, JJW Sertich, AL Titus - Geological Society, London …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Over the past 30 years, exploration of the terrestrial Mesozoic section in Utah has resulted in
a more than five-fold increase in the known species of dinosaurs. A highly resolved temporal …