Ankylosaurus, les en français, littéralement « lézard rigide », est un genre éteint de dinosaures ornithischiens herbivores de l'infra-ordre des Ankylosauria et de la famille des Ankylosauridae. Des fossiles dAnkylosaurus ont été découverts en Amérique du Nord dans les sédiments de la fin du Crétacé supérieur (Maastrichtien), soit il y a environ entre 68 et 66 millions d'années. On a aussi trouvé un grand nombre de fossiles à l'est de la Hongrie, des traces de pas en Bolivie.
Hangenberg eventThe Hangenberg event, also known as the Hangenberg crisis or end-Devonian extinction, is a mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Famennian stage, the last stage in the Devonian Period (roughly 358.9 ± 0.4 million years ago). It is usually considered the second-largest extinction in the Devonian Period, having occurred approximately 13 million years after the Late Devonian mass extinction (Kellwasser event) at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary.
Panthalassathumb|L'océan bleu entourant Pangée est la Panthalassa. La Panthalassa (du grec ancien / pân (« tout ») et / thálassa (« mer »), littéralement toutes les mers) était le vaste océan global qui a entouré la Pangée, supercontinent qui exista à la fin du paléozoïque. Cet océan était divisé en deux bassins principaux, le bassin Pacifique correspondant à l'actuel océan Pacifique et le bassin paléo-Téthys. Ce dernier forme un coin enfoncé au sud-est de la Pangée.
North China CratonThe North China Craton is a continental crustal block with one of Earth's most complete and complex records of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic processes. It is located in northeast China, Inner Mongolia, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea. The term craton designates this as a piece of continent that is stable, buoyant and rigid. Basic properties of the cratonic crust include being thick (around 200 km), relatively cold when compared to other regions, and low density.
Plate reconstructionThis article describes techniques; for a history of the movement of tectonic plates, see Geological history of Earth. Plate reconstruction is the process of reconstructing the positions of tectonic plates relative to each other (relative motion) or to other reference frames, such as the Earth's magnetic field or groups of hotspots, in the geological past. This helps determine the shape and make-up of ancient supercontinents and provides a basis for paleogeographic reconstructions.
PalaeoworldPalaeoworld is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on palaeontology and stratigraphy research in and around China. It was founded in 1991 by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS). The journal has been published quarterly since 2006; prior to 2006, it did not adhere to a fixed publication schedule.
