“…In this special issue, there are 50 short research papers covering a broad spectrum of fields reflecting many facets of biodiversity, palaeoenvironment, palaeogeography and palaeoclimate from the marine and non-marine Cretaceous sequences in Asia. The special issue is divided into four sections: 1) new research results on fossil records in the marine Cretaceous deposits in Asia provide important taphonomic [18], palaeogeographic and palaeoecological information which are useful for inter-continental, marine and non-marine biostratigraphic correlation [19] [20], and palaeoceanographic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; 2) new research results on Cretaceous non-marine fossil records provide the information of the palaeogeography, palaeoecology and palaeoclimate on land in Asia and South America, including a discussion on the origin of angiosperm [21], the turnover of fossil flora and faunas, and the description of new dinosaur taxa; 3) the overview of progress in the Cretaceous stratigraphy in China, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Far East of Russia, Thailand and Vietnam, especially including a discussion on the new stratigraphic framework in Shandong province [22], and the new progress on the Jurassic/Cretaceous and Cretaceous/Paleogene boundaries in China; 4) Cretaceous palaeoclimate reconstruction based on evidence from fossil records, special lithology and palaeo-weathering index. The Late Cretaceous floral turn-over in the Indian subcontinent indicates a latitudinal shifting of the Indian plate from sub-tropical to tropical zone during the Maastrichtian [23].…”