Highlights in international cooperation in Cretaceous studies

Fossils from the chalk cliffs of Stevns Klint in Denmark were described by an international team from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovenia and Germany. The cliffs, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are famous for the presence of the youngest Cretaceous and oldest Paleocene strata including the boundary between these two stratigraphic units. Martina Kočová Veselská of the Institute of Geology AS CR and Tomáš Kočí of the Slovenian Institute for Palaeobiology and Evolution presented the project results at the international conference at Maastricht, the Netherlands, which was held to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the erection of the Maastrichtian stage (the youngest stage of the Cretaceous). The study of the Stevns Klint fossils, which document thriving marine life at the end of the Cretaceous, falls within the research project run by the Geomuseum Faxe and the Strategy AV21 project. The event and the results of the current research attracted the attention of the Danish newspaper Sjællandske Nyheder. Link here