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Cretoxyrhina (/krɪˌtɒksiˈrhaɪnə/; meaning 'Cretaceous sharp-nose') is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years...

oldest polypterids are around 100 million years old, from the early Late Cretaceous of South America and Africa. Polypterids are elongated fish with a unique...

damage of the wings and ability for dispersal. Cretogerris, from the Cretaceous (Albian) Charentese amber of France, was initially suggested as a gerrid...

stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in what is now South Africa during the Early Cretaceous, between 139 and 131 million years ago. Discovered in 1845, it was one...

in the Austroalpine nappes eclogites occur that were formed during the Cretaceous period, in an early phase of mountain building called the Eo-Alpine orogeny...

beetles from the Cretaceous. Most are in Europe and Asia and belong to the temperate climate zone during the Cretaceous. Lower Cretaceous sites include the...

Paleozoic to Triassic sandstones and shales; Jurassic to lower Cretaceous turbidites; Cretaceous granites; and ophiolites. The Anzhu Islands consist of a highly...

Protopsephurus from the Early Cretaceous of China around 120 million years ago, while the earliest known sturgeons appear in the Late Cretaceous in North America and...

longipennis, although it probably not a member of this group. By the Early Cretaceous, true thrips became much more abundant. The extant family Merothripidae...

old as the Late Cretaceous. The ichnotaxon Tristraguloolithus cracioides is based on fossil eggshell fragments from the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation...

Atasary, Mydar, Goyun, and Zakli. These fields are located in Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments. The Turkmen gas industry got underway with the opening of the...

and over 1.2 Tcf (trillion cubic feet) of gas. Production includes the Cretaceous Mesaverde Formation and Frontier Formation. The discovery of petroleum...

rig in Denmark Block 7.3 of the North Sea. The reservoir is an Upper Cretaceous Danian chalk at a depth of 5,800 to 6,400 feet (1,768 to 1,951 metres)...

Belt in relation to the trend of Mexican tectonic provinces, its Pre-Cretaceous basement is highly heterogeneous. The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt east...

1891 – 41 species in 4 genera † Carpopenaeidae Garassino, 1994 – two Cretaceous species of Carpopenaeus Penaeidae Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1815 – 216 extant...

Fish portal Holostei is a group of ray-finned bony fish. It is divided into two major clades, the Halecomorphi, represented by the single living genus...

the discovery of spectacularly preserved bird fossils in several Early Cretaceous geological formations in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning...

wrinkled and the base of the crowns are hollow. Miller, H. W. (1967). "Cretaceous Vertebrates from Phoebus Landing, North Carolina". Proceedings of the...

influx of nutrients into the ocean during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous following the rise of angiosperms on land, which led to an increase in...

p. 216. ISBN 978-0008311070. Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia (1975). "Late Cretaceous Mammals and Dinosaurs from the Gobi Desert: Fossils excavated by the Polish-Mongolian...