Sentences with phrase «cretaceous plant fossils»

Our team also conducted paleontological prospecting in the South Shetland Islands, finding Cretaceous plant fossils on Livingston and Snow islands.

Not exact matches

Dr Albert Prieto - Marquez, Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences who co-led the research, said: «Some of the immensely successful duck - billed hadrosaurs of the Late Cretaceous might have been eating flowering plants, but their tooth wear patterns, and especially close study of their coprolites — that's fossil poops — shows they were conifer specialists, designed to crush and digest the oily, tough needles and cones.»

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

Fossil bones don't clearly show whether modern - type birds fluttered about during the Cretaceous, but the treads in Shandong do, painting an improbable scene: Animals much like today's roadrunners were in fact scampering beside two - legged, plant - eating dinosaurs.

While excavating a geologic layer from the Cretaceous era in Kuwajima, researchers found fossils of dinosaurs, turtles, lizards, fish, many types of plants, and Mesozoic mammals.

Fossils found in Colombia and Southern Mexico offer evidence that plants from the Rhamnaceae family first appeared in the Late Cretaceous epoch shortly before the extinction event, Jud said.

We review the extensive record of plant fossils before, at, and after the Cretaceous - Paleogene event horizons, recognizing that key differences between plants and other organisms have important implications for understanding the patterns of environmental change associated with the Cretaceous - Paleogene event.