#turonian — Public Fediverse posts

A Song of Ice and Fire: History of Earth’s surface temperature https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-485-million-year-history-of-earths-surface-temperature/ by @Ferwen

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature: Emily Judd et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705

"A new study offers the most detailed overview of the planet climate history... The integrated data indicates that Earth’s temperature has varied between a minimum of 11°C [Late #Pleistocene; 129 to 11.7 ka] and a maximum of 36°C (#Turonian; 93.9 to 89.39 Ma) over the past 485 million years."

#NewSpecies of #Sauropod #Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/sidersaura-marae-12594.html

The last of the oldies: a basal rebbachisaurid (#Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the early Late #Cretaceous (#Cenomanian–#Turonian) of #Patagonia, #Argentina https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2023.2297914

"The presence of an early species at Cenomanian-Turonian times, so close to the #extinction of the group, implies that the evolutionary history of #Rebbachisauridae was more complex than previously thought"

#NewSpecies of #Mosasaur Identified in Mexico
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/yaguarasaurus-regiomontanus-12480.html

A new species of #Yaguarasaurus (#Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from the Agua Nueva Formation (Upper #Turonian – Lower #Coniacian) of Nuevo Leon, #Mexico https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981123005060

"this #marine #reptile had a long, slender rostrum and #jaws with small #teeth. The ancient #creature was roughly 5.2 m (17 feet) in length, making it one of the earliest known large #mosasaurs."

#NewSpecies of #Mosasaur Identified in #Utah https://www.sci.news/paleontology/sarabosaurus-dahli-12021.html

A new lower #Turonian #mosasaurid from the #WesternInteriorSeaway and the antiquity of the unique basicranial circulation pattern in Plioplatecarpinae https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667123001490

"#Mosasaurs were a group of large predatory marine #reptiles that inhabited all of the world’s oceans during the Late #Cretaceous epoch, between 90 and 66 million years ago. These creatures went #extinct during the end-Cretaceous #extinction."