The French dinosaur record is one of the most extensive in Europe; it ranges
stratigraphically from the Late Triassic to the Latest Cretaceous. All major clades of …

Abstract 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 …

Pterosaurs first appeared in the Late Triassic and persisted until the terminal Cretaceous:
they achieved a global distribution during the Mesozoic. Here, we attempt to provide the first …

Dinosaur bonebeds with amber content, yet scarce, offer a superior wealth and quality of
data on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. However, the preserved palaeodiversity and/or …

A significant portion of Mesozoic amber is fully opaque. Biological inclusions in such amber
are invisible even after polishing, leading to potential bias in paleoecological and …

Background Rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaurs are characteristic elements of Late
Cretaceous European vertebrate faunas and were previously collected from lower …

The Cretaceous amber deposits from France are reviewed, and their palaeontological
content is discussed in the light of recent studies. Numerous" old" amber localities …

Sclerogibbid wasps are obligate parasitoids of webspinners (Embiodea). Both groups have
a particularly scarce geological record and are known since the Cretaceous: there are only …

Over the past six years, organic inclusions preserved in amber samples from outcrops
worldwide have been discovered and imaged in 3D using propagation phase contrast …

Over the past decade, the mid-Cretaceous amber deposits of Charentes (SW France) have
been intensively studied. The fossils investigated were not only limited to arthropods …