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Aptian is an adjective that relates to or is characteristic of the Aptian age in geologic time, around 125 million years ago
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- A subdivision of the Early (Lower) Cretaceous epoch.
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The top of the formation is not younger than Aptian.
Aptian age findings include a Psittacosaurus.
Orodromines are widespread throughout time starting in the Aptian and ending in the Campanian.
Both Valanginian and Aptian stages are marked by polyphased neritic production drawdown.
Gracilornis is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous Aptian stage.
Apt and the Aptian age.
The age has been estimated to be Late Aptian.
A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Columbia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs.
The age of this formation has been estimated to be Late Barremian to Aptian.
It lived during the Aptian age of the Lower Cretaceous.
The age has been estimated to be Aptian to Albian.
The Aptian extinction was an extinction event of the early Cretaceous Period.
The specimen was discovered in the marine Marree Formation dating from the Aptian.
The Albian is preceded by the Aptian and followed by the Cenomanian.
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period Aptian age.
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The Aptian stage.
This falls within the Early Cretaceous Period, specifically between the Aptian and Albian epochs.
The Aptian event.
The genus currently contains a single species, the Aptian C. disjunctus.
Already during the Aptian and Albian, some carbonates had dissolved and were replaced by dolomite.
It is preceded by the Hauterivian and followed by the Aptian stage . [ 2 ].
The base of the Aptian stage is laid at magnetic anomaly M0r.
It lived about 125 million years ago in the earliest Aptian.
Beishanlong lived at the boundary of the Aptian to Albian stages, around 120 million years ago.
It is of Aptian stage ( Early Cretaceous ), and is notable for its fossils of dinosaurs.
The fossil was collected from the Jiufotang Formation, which is of Aptian age 120 mya.
It lived during the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million years ago.
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The Aptian extinction was a minor extinction event hypothesized to have occurred around 116 to 117 Ma.
This rock unit dates to the late Aptian stage, approximately 115 million years ago.
The Aptian was introduced in scientific literature by French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny in 1840.
