Posts Tagged ‘cretaceous’

WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]

WFS News: Fossil evidence of core monocots in the Early Cretaceous

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Botanist Dr. Clement Coiffard of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin discovered the oldest, completely preserved lily in the research collection: Cratolirion bognerianum was found in calcareous sediments of a former freshwater lake in Crato in northeastern Brazil. With an age of about 115 million years, Cratolirion is […]

WFS News: A Gigantic Shark from the Lower Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation of Texas

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Citation: Frederickson JA, Schaefer SN, Doucette-Frederickson JA (2015) A Gigantic Shark from the Lower Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation of Texas. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127162 Abstract:Three large lamniform shark vertebrae are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. We interpret these fossils as belonging to a single individual […]

Dinosaur fossil resembling the ‘loch ness myth’ found in Alaska

Researchers in Alaska have uncovered the bones of a prehistoric marine reptile dating back 70 million years. This is the first time an elasmosaur has ever been unearthed in this state. Its vertebrae were discovered embedded in an eroding cliff. Elasmosaurs had extremely long necks, small heads and paddle-shaped limbs for swimming. There are many theories […]