Marsupial brood care in Cretaceous tanaidaceans by Alba Sánchez-García, Xavier Delclòs, Michael S. Engel, Graham J. Bird, Vincent Perrichot, Enrique Peñalver

“…Here we report on fossil tanaidaceans from the Cretaceous of Spain and France that provide conclusive evidence for marsupial care of brood-offspring. …”
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Microspectroscopic evidence of cretaceous bone proteins. by Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, Andrew H Lee, Carl Alwmark, Karl-Erik Bergquist, Einar Nilsson, Peter Ekström, Magnus Rasmussen, Desirée A Douglas, Michael J Polcyn, Louis L Jacobs

“…Here, we demonstrate that endogenous proteinaceous molecules are retained in a humerus from a Late Cretaceous mosasaur (an extinct giant marine lizard). …”
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Titanosauriform teeth from the Cretaceous of Japan by Haruo Saegusa, Yukimitsu Tomida

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Late Cretaceous vicariance in Gondwanan amphibians. by Ines Van Bocxlaer, Kim Roelants, S D Biju, J Nagaraju, Franky Bossuyt

“…Hence our results imply Late Cretaceous connections between most adjacent Gondwanan landmasses, an essential concept for biogeographic and palaeomap reconstructions.…”
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Cretaceous Antodicranomyia (Diptera: Limoniidae) and their paleohabitat by Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Vincent Perrichot, Wiesław Krzemiński

“…Abstract New representatives of the Cretaceous cranefly genus Antodicranomyia (Diptera: Limoniidae) are reported from Albian-Cenomanian Charentese (French) amber. …”
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Thoughts on the evolution and extinction of Cretaceous ammonites by Kennedy, W

“…Problems that beset the worker on Cretaceous ammonites - chronostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and evolutionary - are reviewed, and examples of evolutionary patterns noted. …”

The Cretaceous ammonite Eopachydiscus and the origin of the Pachydiscidae. by Kennedy, W, Wright, C, Chancellor, G

Novel insect leaf-mining after the end-Cretaceous extinction and the demise of cretaceous leaf miners, Great Plains, USA. by Michael P Donovan, Peter Wilf, Conrad C Labandeira, Kirk R Johnson, Daniel J Peppe

“…Plant and associated insect-damage diversity in the western U.S.A. decreased significantly at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary and remained low until the late Paleocene. …”
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A New Enantiornithine (Aves) Preserved in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber Contributes to Growing Diversity of Cretaceous Plumage Patterns by Lida Xing, Lida Xing, Lida Xing, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Kecheng Niu, Pierre Cockx, Pierre Cockx, Huijuan Mai, Huijuan Mai, Ryan C. McKellar, Ryan C. McKellar, Ryan C. McKellar

“…The well-preserved flight feathers are ornamented with pale basal bands, further adding to the diversity of Cretaceous plumage patterns revealed by Burmese amber specimens.…”
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New ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous demonstrate extensive ichthyosaur survival across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. by Valentin Fischer, Michael W Maisch, Darren Naish, Ralf Kosma, Jeff Liston, Ulrich Joger, Fritz J Krüger, Judith Pardo Pérez, Jessica Tainsh, Robert M Appleby

“…Ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs remained diverse from their rapid radiation in the Middle Jurassic to their total extinction at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous.…”
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Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago by Zoltan Csiki-Sava, Eric Buffetaut, Attila Ősi, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Stephen L. Brusatte

“…The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to marked paleogeographic and faunal changes, before the end-Cretaceous bolide impact. …”
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Angiosperms from the Early Cretaceous sediments of India by Chinnappa Chopparapu, Rajanikanth Annamraju, Pauline Sabina Kavali, Sarah Gonçalves Duarte

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The Cretaceous of Lebanon in the Middle East (Levant) context by Ferry Serge, Merran Yann, Grosheny Danièle, Mroueh Moustapha

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A giant mite in Cretaceous Burmese amber by J. A. Dunlop, K. Frahnert, J. Mąkol

“…<p>An unusually large acariform mite is described as <i>Immensmaris</i> <i>chewbaccei</i> gen. et sp. nov. from the Cretaceous (ca. 100&thinsp;Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. …”
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Widespread mermithid nematode parasitism of Cretaceous insects by Cihang Luo, George O Poinar, Chunpeng Xu, De Zhuo, Edmund A Jarzembowski, Bo Wang

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Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird by Quanguo Li, Julia A. Clarke, Ke-Qin Gao, Jennifer A. Peteya, Matthew D. Shawkey

“…Here, we report on an extremely well-preserved specimen of the Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis with unprecedented complexity, including small spots on the wings, crest, and throat. …”
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First evidence of ranunculids in Early Cretaceous tropics by William Vieira Gobo, Lutz Kunzmann, Roberto Iannuzzi, Julien B. Bachelier, Clément Coiffard

“…Abstract Early Cretaceous floras containing angiosperms were described from several geographic areas, nearly from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and are crucial to understand their evolution and radiation. …”
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Metalliferous Coals of Cretaceous Age: A Review by Shifeng Dai, Sergey I. Arbuzov, Igor Yu. Chekryzhov, David French, Ian Feole, Bruce C. Folkedahl, Ian T. Graham, James C. Hower, Victor P. Nechaev, Nicola J. Wagner, Robert B. Finkelman

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Mid-Cretaceous paleoenvironmental changes in the western Tethys by C. Bottini, E. Erba

“…Temperate conditions occurred in the Cenomanian with frequent short-term variations highlighted by abundance peaks of the cold-water nannofossil species <i>E. floralis</i> and <i>R. parvidentatum</i>. Mid-Cretaceous surface water fertility was rather fluctuating and mostly independent from climatic conditions as well as from black shales intervals. …”
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The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia by S. Zahirovic, M. Seton, R. D. Müller

“…We propose a scenario of rifting from northern Gondwana in the latest Jurassic, driven by northward slab pull from north-dipping subduction of Tethyan crust beneath Eurasia, to detach East Java, Mangkalihat, southeast Borneo and West Sulawesi blocks that collided with a Tethyan intra-oceanic subduction zone in the mid-Cretaceous and subsequently accreted to the Sunda margin (i.e., southwest Borneo core) in the Late Cretaceous. …”
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