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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Maastricht . - adjective Of or pertainig to the Maastrichtian geological period.
- adjective in the ICS'
geologic timescale , the latest age or upper stage of the LateCretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceousseries , the Cretaceousperiod orsystem , and of theMesozoic era orerathem - noun countable Someone from
Maastricht - proper noun The
dialect of theLimburgish language as spoken inMaastricht - proper noun geology the last stage of the
Cretaceous period, preceded by the Campanian and succeeded by the Danian period.
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Examples
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Neither has she ever shown any inclination to have her so-called Maastrichtian foraminifers 1 in the Yaxcopoil-1 core in the Chixulub crater tested.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Well, except for a paper in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, "A new baenid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and preliminary taxonomic review of the Cretaceous Baenidae."
"Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done." greygirlbeast 2010
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I've been reading the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and, since my last entry, have finished "Bone histology and microanatomy of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Maastrichtian of Big Bend National Park, Texas" and "Hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the latest Creatceous of the Iberian Peninsula."
"HIgh above the mountain, an eagle calling down..." fusijui 2009
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Well, except for a paper in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, "A new baenid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and preliminary taxonomic review of the Cretaceous Baenidae."
"Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done." greygirlbeast 2010
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The high diversity of Late Maastrichtian dinosaurs in high latitudes, where ectotherms are absent, strongly questions hypotheses according to which dinosaur extinction was a result of temperature decline, caused or not by the Chicxulub impact.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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A family of Arambourgiania philadelphiae - a large azhdarchid pterosaur, formally called "Titanopteryx," found in Jordan from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian.
Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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A family of Arambourgiania philadelphiae - a large azhdarchid pterosaur, formally called "Titanopteryx," found in Jordan from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian.
Archive 2009-07-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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He had a ceratopsian that needed worked on, from the Javelina Formation late Maastrichtian, and that also sounded pretty great, so that is what I worked on.
Archive 2008-12-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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This research explores the effects of abiotic taphonomic processes on the taxonomic composition of terrestrial microvertebrate accumulations by comparing a floodplain and a channel lag deposit from the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation in eastern Montana.
CONGRATS LAURA!!! ReBecca Foster 2008
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This research explores the effects of abiotic taphonomic processes on the taxonomic composition of terrestrial microvertebrate accumulations by comparing a floodplain and a channel lag deposit from the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation in eastern Montana.
Archive 2008-04-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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