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1 online resource (656 pages) |
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Life of the Past |
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Life of the past.
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One Hundred Thirty Years of Cretaceous Research in Southern Utah -- Geologic Overview -- Accumulation of Organic Carbon-Rich Strata along the Western Margin and in the Center of the North American Western Interior Seaway during the Cenomanian-Turonian Transgression -- Tectonic and Sedimentary Controls, Age, and Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Southern Utah -- Implications of the Internal Plumbing of a Late Cretaceous Sand Volcano: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah -- The Kaiparowits Formation: A Remarkable Record of Late Cretaceous Terrestrial Environments, Ecosystems, and Evolution in Western North America -- A Late Campanian Flora from the Kaiparowits Formation, Southern Utah, and a Brief Overview of the Widely Sampled but Little-Known Campanian Vegetation of the Western Interior of North America -- Continental Invertebrates and Trace Fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah -- Elasmobranchs from Upper Cretaceous Freshwater Facies in Southern Utah -- Freshwater Osteichthyes from the Cenomanian to Late Campanian of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah -- Preliminary Report on Salamanders (Lissamphibia -- Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous (Late Cenomanian-Late Campanian) of Southern Utah, U.S.A. -- Anuran Ilia from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah -- Diversity and Stratigraphic Patterns -- Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah -- Review of Late Cretaceous Mammalian Faunas of the Kaiparowits and Paunsaugunt Plateaus, Southwestern Utah -- Late Cretaceous Mammals from Bryce Canyon National Park and Vicinity, Paunsaugunt Plateau, Southwestern Utah -- Lizards and Snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of Southern Utah: Filling the Gap in the Fossil Record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America -- Crocodyliforms from the Late Cretaceous of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Vicinity, Southern Utah, U.S.A. -- Review of Late Cretaceous Ankylosaurian Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase Region, Southern Utah -- Ornithopod Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Region, Utah, and Their Role in Paleobiogeographic and Macroevolutionary Studies -- Review of Pachycephalosaurian Dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Southern Utah -- Ceratopsid Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase of Southern Utah -- Late Cretaceous Theropod Dinosaurs of Southern Utah -- A Trackmaker for Saurexallopus: Ichnological Evidence for Oviraptorosaurian Tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America -- First Report of Probable Therizinosaur (cf. Macropodosaurus) Tracks from North America, with Notes on the Neglected Vertebrate Ichnofauna of the Ferron Sandstone (Late Cretaceous) of Central Utah -- Fossil Vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Southern Utah -- Paleontological Overview and Taphonomy of the Middle Campanian Wahweap Formation in Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument -- Taphonomy of a Subadult Teratophoneus curriei (Tyrannosauridae) from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah -- A New Macrovertebrate Assemblage from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Southern Utah |
Summary |
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the early twenty-first century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new tyrannosaur), plus the most complete specimen of a Late Cretaceous therizinosaur ever collected from North America, and much more. This book documents this major stepping stone toward a synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cretaceous.
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Paleontology -- Cretaceous.
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Geology -- Utah.
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Animals, Fossil -- Utah
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Animals, Fossil
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Cretaceous Geologic Period
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Geology
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Paleontology
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99073747
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Utah
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Utah -- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Electronic book
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Author |
Titus, Alan L
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Loewen, Mark A
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LC no. |
2013005859 |
ISBN |
9780253008961 |
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0253008964 |
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