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Mesozoic Era

Cretaceous

T. rex and Triceratops; flowers spread worldwide.

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Latest paleo signals

A live feed of what's shifting in deep-time research, aggregated from OpenAlex, Crossref, PBDB, NOAA, Neotoma, and PANGAEA — with context and sources.

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Signal
LiteratureEstablished

Sauropod tracks from the Lower Cretaceous in Shandong, China: Implications for the dominating of non-titanosaurians in East Asia

Appeared in Cretaceous Research.

Nov 1, 2026Crossref
LiteratureEstablished

Mesozoic stem-group paraneopteran insects from the Upper Triassic Cow Branch Formation of Virginia and North Carolina

Appeared in Journal of Paleontology.

Oct 30, 2026Crossref
LiteratureEstablished

Durophagous adaptations in a new crocodyliform from the Santonian of Hungary and a systematic reassessment of European Cretaceous atoposaurids

New publication indexed by Crossref.

Oct 28, 2026Crossref
LiteratureEstablished

Newly discovered fossils from Oklahoma and Morocco support recent revision of cyclocystoid (Echinodermata) morphology and evolution

Appeared in Journal of Paleontology.

Oct 27, 2026Crossref
DatasetsEstablished

Diversity and faunal composition of benthic foraminifera in Hole 44-390A on the Blake Nose Plateau

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages are a widespread tool to understand changes in organic matter flux and bottom-water oxygenation and their relation to paleo...

Jun 15, 2026PANGAEA
DatasetsEstablished

Oligocene to Miocene palaeoclimate reconstructions from 14 sites in Serbia

14 published megafloras from the Serbian Cenozoic are analyzed with respect to vegetation type, palaeoclimate, and palaeogeographic settings. The floras cove...

May 1, 2026PANGAEA
DatasetsEstablished

Palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Oligocene to Pliocene from eight sites in northwest Germany using the Coexistence Approach

The first detailed reconstruction of the continental palaeoclimate evolution of the Northwest German Tertiary (Late Oligocene to Pliocene) is presented. The ...

May 1, 2026PANGAEA
DatasetsEstablished

Analysis of Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the oxygen minimum zone of the Pakistan continental margin

Live (Rose Bengal stained) and dead benthic foraminiferal communities (hard-shelled species only) from the Pakistan continental margin oxygen minimum zone (O...

May 1, 2026PANGAEA
PaleoecologyEmerging

Natural treeless areas in the Krkonoše mountains: insights from two decades of pollen monitoring

Publication type: Journal Article.

Jan 1, 2026Neotoma
PaleoclimateRising

1006-year reconstruction of Rossby wavenumber-5

Data type: CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS.

Jul 7, 2025NOAA NCEI
PaleoclimateRising

1000 Year Composite Sea Surface Temperature Record from the North Atlantic Ocean

Data type: PALEOCEANOGRAPHY.

Apr 10, 2013NOAA NCEI
PaleoclimateRising

1,100 Year El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Index Reconstruction

Data type: CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS.

May 16, 2011NOAA NCEI