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6 unusual facts about Campanian


Actinidiaceae

The now extinct genus Parasaurauia is thought to have belonged to the Actinidiaceae and was located in North America during the early Campanian.

Nardoichthys

Nardoichthys francisci is an extinct species of bony fish from the Campanian/Maastrichtian epoch of Nardò, Italy.

Orodromeus

The holotype specimen, MOR 294, was found in a layer of the Two Medicine Formation, dating from the Campanian stage, about 75 million years ago.

Selmasaurus

A remarkably well preserved and nearly complete Selmasaurus skull and partial postcranial skeleton was discovered by Steve Johnson and family in 1996, from the Santonian or Campanian marine horizon in the Niobrara Formation of Niobrara Chalk, western Kansas.

The holotype and only known specimen of S. russelli was found from the Mooreville Chalk Formation (Campanian stage) of western Alabama.

Telscombe

The cliffs are mainly of geological interest, containing many Santonian and Campanian fossils.


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Aletopelta

The skeleton including femora, tibiae, fibulae and incomplete parts of a scapula, humerus, ulna, left and right ischium, vertebrae, ribs, partial armor over the pelvic girdle plus at least 60 detached armor plates and 8 teeth was found in the Late Cretaceous (Upper Campanian) marine Point Loma Formation, near Carlsbad, California.

Angulomastacator

Angulomastacator (meaning "bend chewer", in reference to both the shape of its upper jaw and to the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande, where the type specimen was found) is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Campanian-age (Late Cretaceous) Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Bathysoma

Bathysoma lutkeni ("Lutken's Deep Body") is an extinct lamprid from the Danian epoch of Sweden, and is the second oldest lamprid known, after Nardovelifer of Campanian/Maastrichian Italy.

Cimexomys

Fossils come from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA).

Geology of the Isle of Wight

The age of the sequence ranges from Cenomanian through to Campanian, The upper boundary is an unconformity across which rocks of Maastrichtian to Paleocene age are missing.

Lacinato kale

Lacinato kale, like most other kale varieties, is usually blanched first, and then sautéed with other, flavorful ingredients; in Campanian cuisine, anchovies are often added.

Variraptor

Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux.


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