Genome and life-history evolution link bird diversification to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

JS Berv, S Singhal, DJ Field, N Walker-Hale… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Complex patterns of genome evolution associated with the end-Cretaceous [Cretaceous-
Paleogene (K–Pg)] mass extinction limit our understanding of the early evolutionary history …

End of the Cretaceous

SPS Gulick - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
The Cretaceous ended when the Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatán platform, and all
deposits and landforms generated are earliest Paleocene in age. Drill core from the …

Impact of Mexican Border rift structural inheritance on Laramide rivers of the Tornillo basin, west Texas (USA): Insights from detrital zircon provenance

C Kortyna, DF Stockli, TF Lawton, JA Covault… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Late Cretaceous to Eocene Laramide basement–involved shortening fragmented
the Sevier and Mexican foreland basins. This resulted in a major drainage reorganization in …

Giant gar from directly above the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary suggests healthy freshwater ecosystems existed within thousands of years of the asteroid impact

CD Brownstein, TR Lyson - Biology Letters, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) mass extinction was responsible for the destruction of
global ecosystems and loss of approximately three-quarters of species diversity 66 million …

A 104-Ma record of deep-sea Atelostomata (Holasterioda, Spatangoida, irregular echinoids)–a story of persistence, food availability and a big bang

F Wiese, N Schlüter, J Zirkel, JO Herrle, O Friedrich - PloS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Deep-sea macrobenthic body fossils are scarce due to the lack of deep-sea sedimentary
archives in onshore settings. Therefore, hypothesized migrations of shallow shelf taxa into …

Revised age constraints for Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene terrestrial strata from the Dawson Creek section, Big Bend National Park, west Texas

CE Leslie, DJ Peppe, TE Williamson… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We analyzed samples for paleomagnetism, 40 Ar/39 Ar detrital sanidine ages, and
mammalian fauna to produce a precise chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper …

Molecular early burst associated with the diversification of birds at the K–Pg boundary

JS Berv, S Singhal, DJ Field, N Walker-Hale… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Complex patterns of genome and life-history evolution associated with the end-Cretaceous
(K–Pg) mass extinction event limit our understanding of the early evolutionary history of …

The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA

TM Lehman, J Cobb, P Sylvester… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) contact interval is constrained by vertebrate
fossil sites at seven sites in the Tornillo Group and lies within an 80–100-m stratigraphic …

Stratigraphy and depositional history of the Tornillo Group (Upper Cretaceous–Eocene) of west Texas

TM Lehman, SL Wick, HL Beatty, WH Straight… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fluvial strata of the Tornillo Group preserve a succession of Late Cretaceous, Paleocene,
and early Eocene continental faunas and floras and provide a record of the Laramide …

Coupling of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity in Devonian trilobites?

V Bault, C Crônier, C Monnet - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Morphological disparity and taxonomic richness are two major aspects of evolution used to
understand biodiversity changes. These metrics are often decoupled in time, particularly …