Campanien

landscape of Montmorélien (Cretaceous Campanian), Charente, SW France

Sandstones of the lower Kirtland Formation (Late Campanian), outcropping near Coal Creek. New Mexico. Photo by Nick Longrich

A fossil tree from the Coal Creek region, Fruitland Formation, latest Cretaceous (Late Campanian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Holotype skull of the centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur Diabloceratops eatoni from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Photograph by Nick Longrich, 2023.

Outcrops of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) aged Aguja Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

Restoration of the sturgeon "Acipenser" gigantissimus, from Campanian marine strata in Saratov

It is the southern flank of a syncline Campanian, Maastrichtian and Eocene age(35-55 million ys)flakes represented by conglomerates overlying gypsum marls in the syncline; but also an undeveloped alabaster deposit giving way to a beautiful landscape 

Life restoration of the mosasaurine mosasaurid Eremiasaurus, with unknown portions and soft tissues based primarily on Prognathodon and supplemented with Mosasaurus where needed. References Leblanc, A.R.H.; Caldwell, M.W.; Bardet, N. (2012). "A new mosasaurine from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) phosphates of Morocco and its implications for mosasaurine systematics". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1): 82–104. Lindgren, J.; Kaddumi, H.; Polcyn, M. (2013). "Soft tissue preservation in a fossil marine lizard with a bilobed tail fin". Nature Communications 4: 2423. DOI:10.1038/ncomms3423. Konishi, T.; Brinkman, D.; Massare, J.A.; Caldwell, M.W. (2011). "New exceptional specimens of Prognathodon overtoni (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of Alberta, Canada, and the systematics and ecology of the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (5): 1026–1046. Russell, D.A. (1967). "Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23: 1–241.

Leptorhynchos, a small caenagnathid from the Campanian of Western North America. Original work in pencil and charcoal by Nick Longrich. Additional digital editing in Adobe Photoshop by Nick Longrich.

Elasmosaurus platyurus, plesiosaurian from Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of North America

Elasmosaurus platyurus, plesiosaurian from Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of North America

Latoplatecarpus willistoni (TMP 1984.162.0001), Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, 2025-07-13; cast, Campanian, from the Pierre Shale

Aralazhdarcho bostobensis, ZIN PH 57/43, a proximal fragment of a left humerus in proximal (a), ventral (b), anterior (c), dorsal (d), and posterior (e) views. This specimen is from the Shakh Shakh II locality in the northeasten Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan; Bostobe Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Santonian – lower Campanian). Abbreviations: h, humeral head; pf, pneumatic foramen; uc, ulnar crest. Scale bar is 10 mm.

Plate 53. Borogovia gracilicrus gen. et sp. n. 1. Fragmentary right pes, in: a dorsal, b ventral, views; ZPAL MgD-11174, holotype, X 0.5. 2. Phalanx 11-1 of the left pes, medial view; same specimen, X 1. 3. Ungual of left second pedal digit, ventral view; same specimen, X 1. 4. Phalanx 111-3 of the left pes, lateral view; same specimen, X 1. 5. Phalanges IV-1 to IV-4 of the left pes, lateral view; same specimen, X 1. 6. Distal portion of right metatarsal 111, posterior view; same specimen, X 1. 7. Distal portion of left metatarsal IV, medial view; same specimen, X 1. 8. Distal portion of left metatarsal 11, lateral view; same specimen, X 1. 9. Right tibiotarsus, a distal portion and b proximal portion with fragment of the fibula attached, posterior views, c distal portion, anterior view, d distal portion, lateral view; same specimen, X 0.5. Nemegt Formation, ?Late Campanian or ?Early Maastrichtian, Ultan Ula IV, Nemegt Basin, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Skull of troodontid theropod Xixiasaurus henanensis gen. et sp. nov. (HGM 41HIII−0201; holotype), lower–middle Majiacun Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Coniacian–Campanian), Henan Province, China; in dorsal (A); lateral (B), and ventral (C) views. Note that this version of the image does not include the interpretative lines of the version in the paper.

Reconstruction of the skull of Spinops sternbergorum gen. et sp. nov. from the Campanian of Dinosaur Provincial Park, southern Alberta, in right lateral view. Preserved elements are stippled; missing portions are dotted and modeled after Centrosaurus apertus.