Yuqian Chen , Edmund A. Jarzembowski , Lei Chen , Cihang Luo
{"title":"A new species of Proraphidia (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Laiyang Formation of China","authors":"Yuqian Chen , Edmund A. Jarzembowski , Lei Chen , Cihang Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Proraphidia anisomorpha</em> sp. nov., a new species of snakefly (Insecta: Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae), is described from the Lower Cretaceous Laiyang Formation, Shandong, China. This is the first discovery of <em>Proraphidia</em> from the Laiyang Formation, thus extending the geographical range of this genus. <em>P. anisomorpha</em> sp. nov. is different from other species of <em>Proraphidia</em> according to its unique branching structure and small wing size. The palaeogeographic distribution of <em>Proraphidia</em> is also summarized.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140555560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinícius José Maróstica Paio , Isabela Jurigan , Rafael Delcourt , Rafael Souza de Faria , Alessandro Batezelli , Fresia Ricardi-Branco
{"title":"Taphonomy and paleohistology of a dinosaur rib from Marília Formation, Bauru Group, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil","authors":"Vinícius José Maróstica Paio , Isabela Jurigan , Rafael Delcourt , Rafael Souza de Faria , Alessandro Batezelli , Fresia Ricardi-Branco","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Bauru Group (Campanian–Maastrichtian) has one of the richest fossil records of Cretaceous in South America. All dinosaur fossils from this unit were assigned to Saurischia, most of them poorly preserved. We present the histological and taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur dorsal rib fragment from the Marília Formation in the western state of Minas Gerais. Thin sections were prepared to describe the microstructures of the bone tissue and the fossilization processes involved in preserving the specimen. An elemental analysis was also performed to verify the chemical composition of the fossil and rock matrix. Haversian bone was identified in the rib cortex, and no growth marks or an external fundamental system were found. The rib probably belonged to a saurischian dinosaur because of its plank shape and elliptical cross-section. Hypotheses regarding taphonomic processes were inferred. An extended period of subaerial exposure, followed by high-energy transport, was interpreted due to extensive fractures and signs of abrasion on the outer surface of the bone. Pyrite pseudomorphs (framboids) indicate that the bone was deposited in a reductive environment. After burial, the rapid precipitation of calcite and alkaline stability allowed the preservation of apatite during the recrystallization phase. The manganese hydroxides were deposited on apatite crystals during early diagenesis. We concluded that the fossil rib presented a common taphonomic bias identified among vertebrate fossils of the Bauru Group, which is associated with the exposure of the bones to arid and semiarid climates, their transport into the depositional environments and pedogenetic influence during fossil diagenesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140550878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zechuan Li , De Zhuo , Yuhe Gao , Chunpeng Xu , Weiwei Zhang , Yongjie Wang , Xingyue Liu
{"title":"A review of the lance lacewings (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar","authors":"Zechuan Li , De Zhuo , Yuhe Gao , Chunpeng Xu , Weiwei Zhang , Yongjie Wang , Xingyue Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The family Osmylidae is an archaic group of Neuroptera and has rich fossil records. Here we present a review of Osmylidae from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. We describe a new species: <em>Nuddsia simplex</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong>, and a new genus with one new species: <em>Myanmarosmylus wintertoni</em> <strong>gen.</strong> <em>et</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong> Supplementary description of <em>Nuddsia magnifica</em> (Myskowiak et al., 2016) is also provided, with the male genitalia described for the first time. <em>Myanmarosmylus wintertoni</em> <strong>gen.</strong> <em>et</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong> represents the first record of the subfamily Protosmylinae from the Cretaceous amber. Our new findings provide important evidence for understanding the palaeodiversity and morphology of the Cretaceous lance lacewings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140545677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cretoprostominia myanmarensis gen. et sp. n., the oldest salpingid beetle (Coleoptera: Salpingidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber","authors":"Rixin Jiang , Zhenhua Liu , Xiangsheng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The oldest salpingid beetle is discovered from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber: <em>Cretoprostominia myanmarensis</em> Jiang, Liu and Chen gen. <em>et.</em> sp. nov. The new genus is most similar to the extant genus <em>Prostominia</em> Reitter, 1889 and differs from the latter by the narrowly separated procoxae. The new discovery enriches our knowledge of the evolutionary history of the family Salpingidae.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140621986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William A.P. Wimbledon , Tiiu Elbra , Petr Pruner , Petr Schnabl , Šimon Kdýr , Kristýna Šifnerová , Camille Frau , Luc Bulot , Diana Ölveczká , Andrea Svobodová , Radek Mikuláš , Daniela Reháková
{"title":"A re-description of the historical stratotype for the Berriasian Stage (Cretaceous System): Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy","authors":"William A.P. Wimbledon , Tiiu Elbra , Petr Pruner , Petr Schnabl , Šimon Kdýr , Kristýna Šifnerová , Camille Frau , Luc Bulot , Diana Ölveczká , Andrea Svobodová , Radek Mikuláš , Daniela Reháková","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The historical stratotype for the Berriasian Stage (Cretaceous System) at Berrias (Ardèche, France) is here re-assessed. It shows a sedimentary record of early to late Berriasian age, part of the pelagic limestone succession of the western Vocontian Basin. We describe a studied section, <em>circa</em> 30 m in thickness, which yields calpionellids, calcareous dinocysts, calcareous nannofossils, and ammonites. The magnetostratigraphy of the section is revised, and calibrated with the biostratigraphy of these fossil groups. Magnetozones M19n to M15r (including M16n.1r) are identified and matched to the calpionellid zonation, with the Alpina to Oblonga biozones represented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140404600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matías Soto , José L. Carballido , Max C. Langer , Julian C.G. Silva Junior , Felipe Montenegro , Daniel Perea
{"title":"Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay","authors":"Matías Soto , José L. Carballido , Max C. Langer , Julian C.G. Silva Junior , Felipe Montenegro , Daniel Perea","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The up to 200 m thick Upper Cretaceous deposits of Uruguay includes from base to top the Guichón, Mercedes, and Asencio formations, plus the lateral correlate of the latter, the Queguay Formation. In 2006, the most complete sauropod from the country was excavated from the Guichón Formation near Araújo, Paysandú Department. Augmented by new specimens reported here, the material includes sixty caudal vertebrae (all strongly procoelous, except for the biconvex first one), a partial coracoid, long bone fragments (proximal and distal portions of tibia, proximal portion of fibula), two astragali, and six metatarsals, as well as associated eggshell fragments. The Uruguayan titanosaur shows a unique combination of characters (biconvex first caudal centrum, pneumatic foramina in the anteriormost caudal centra, dorsal tuberosities on the transverse processes of the anterior caudal vertebrae, well developed fibular knob, pyramidal astragalus), as well as a potential autapomorphy – middle caudal centra condyles with hexagonal contour – allowing the proposition of new genus and species, <em>Udelartitan celeste</em>. Phylogenetic analyses were for the first time performed to assess the relations of that taxon, which was recovered either as a saltasaurine saltasaurid or a non-saltasaurid saltasauroid. Further, one of the analyses show <em>Udelartitan celeste</em> nested within a clade including Late Cretaceous titanosaurs with a biconvex first caudal vertebra, such as <em>Alamosaurus sanjuanensis</em>, <em>Baurutitan britoi</em>, and <em>Pellegrinisaurus powelli</em>. This contribution demonstrates that at least two titanosaur lineages were present in the Late Cretaceous of Uruguay: Saltasauroidea and Aeolosaurini, the latter recently recognized in the stratigraphically younger Asencio Formation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140402426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four new species of Burmomiles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber","authors":"Yuxia Yang, Wei Zhao, Haoyu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Here we describe four new fossil species of soldier beetles, <em>Burmomiles brevicollis</em> sp. nov., <em>B. angustipennis</em> sp. nov., <em>B. recticollis</em> sp. nov., <em>B. dentatus</em> sp. nov., which are collected from the mid-Cretaceous amber in Kachin (Hukawng valley) of Northern Myanmar. They are placed in <em>Burmomiles</em> Fanti, Damgaard et Ellenberger, 2018 based on the male antennomeres IV‒X each with an antennal appendage inserted at a basal cavity on the ventral side, and tibiae hardly longer than femora, tarsomeres I normal and less than twice as long as II. Moreover, with more species added, the key for the identification of all <em>Burmomiles</em> species is updated. These results will significantly expand our knowledge on the species diversity of Burmite cantharids.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140344414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ane Elise Schrøder , Finn Surlyk , Eckart Håkansson
{"title":"First record of the cosmopolitan brachiopod Praelacazella wetherelli from the lower Maastrichtian of Western Australia","authors":"Ane Elise Schrøder , Finn Surlyk , Eckart Håkansson","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We describe the thecideid brachiopod <em>Praelacazella wetherelli</em> (Morris, 1851) from the lower Maastrichtian Korojon Formation in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. This is the first documented record of <em>Praelacazella wetherelli</em> from the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting that the species was cosmopolitan in distribution during the Late Cretaceous. Three possible long-distance migration routes are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000545/pdfft?md5=a461bddedffdb4a12497208961323e1b&pid=1-s2.0-S0195667124000545-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140269431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chunxiang Li , Robbin C. Moran , Yiran Wang , Ya Li , Junye Ma
{"title":"A New Fossil of Cystodium (Cystodiaceae) from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber","authors":"Chunxiang Li , Robbin C. Moran , Yiran Wang , Ya Li , Junye Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The only known fossil of <em>Cystodium</em> (Cystodiaceae) is <em>C. sorbifolioides</em> from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Here we describe a new fossil species of <em>Cystodium</em>, <em>C. parasorbifolium,</em> also from amber collected in Myanmar. This new species belongs to <em>Cystodium</em> based on pinnate fertile lamina segments, terminal sori protected by a reflexed lobe of the lamina (outer or false indusium), free veins, vertical annuli interrupted at the stalk, trilete spores, and striate perines. It differs from <em>C. sorbifolioides</em> by reflexed ovate-conical indusia and spores with clear striate perines. This new fossil species suggests that <em>Cystodium</em> was more diverse in the forests of Myanmar during the Cretaceous.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140272184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Albian sedimentation in western Atlas, Morocco","authors":"Etienne Jaillard , Emmanuel Robert , Jean-Louis Latil , Moussa Masrour","doi":"10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105872","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Detailed study of field sections and extensive ammonite collection allowed to specify the sedimentary evolution and age of the Albian series of the Western Atlas (Morocco). After a significant hiatus of earliest Albian age, the Albian transgression began in the late <em>Douvilleiceras leightonense</em> Zone with partly clastic deposits. A transgressive pulse gave way to clayey marl deposits (<em>Douvilleiceras mammillatum</em> Zone), which evolved upward to partly carbonate, laminated deposits of late early Albian to earliest middle Albian age (<em>Lyelliceras pseudolyelli</em> to early <em>Lyelliceras lyelli</em> zones). A major hiatus that encompassed most of the middle Albian, was followed by a new transgression marked first by sandy deposits (<em>Dipoloceras cristatum</em> and <em>Pervinquiria pricei</em> zones), and then by clayey marl and limestone nodules (<em>Pervinquieria inflata</em> Zone). A sharp sea level fall (late <em>Pervinquieria inflata</em> to early <em>Pervinquieria fallax</em> zones) led to the development of a shallow marine carbonate shelf (Kechoula Formation). A last transgressive pulse allowed deposition of outer shelf clayey marls (<em>Pervinquieria rostrata</em> to <em>Arrhaphoceras briacensis</em> (?) zones), interrupted near the Albian-Cenomanian boundary by a sea level fall and hiatus. Anoxic to disoxic conditions are recorded in the latest early Albian and the late Albian, which correlate with the Leenhardt and Breistroffer levels, respectively. Correlations with Albian successions in North Africa and southern Europe suggest a mainly eustatic origin for the most important sedimentary discontinuities, although the late Albian sea-level drop may be tectonically enhanced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55207,"journal":{"name":"Cretaceous Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000454/pdfft?md5=411ea5653d727c8ede528287472b803c&pid=1-s2.0-S0195667124000454-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140187570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}