At the top of the grand staircase the late Cretaceous of Southern Utah /
Presents a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America by examining the research efforts and discoveries of paleontologists in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understand...
| Other Authors: | Titus, Alan L. 1964-, Loewen, Mark A., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. |
| Series: |
Life of the past.
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| Summary: |
Presents a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America by examining the research efforts and discoveries of paleontologists in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. One hundred thirty years of Cretaceous research in southern Utah / Alan L. Titus -- Geologic overview / Alan L. Titus, Eric M. Roberts, L. Barry Albright III -- 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 / Walter E. Dean, Erle G. Kauffman, Michael A. Arthur -- Tectonic and sedimentary controls, age, and correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, southern Utah / Zubair Jinnah -- Implications of the internal plumbing of a Late Cretaceous sand volcano : Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah / Edward L. Simpson, Hannah L. Hilbert-Wolf, Michael C. Wizevich, Sarah E. Tindall -- The Kaiparowits Formation : a remarkable record of Late Cretaceous terrestrial environments, ecosystems, and evolution in western North America / Eric M. Roberts, Scott D. Sampson, Alan L. Deino, Samuel A. Bowring, Robert Buchwaldt -- 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 / Ian M. Miller, Kirk R. Johnson, Douglas E. Kline, Douglas J. Nichols, Richard S. Barclay -- Continental invertebrates and trace fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / Leif Tapanila, Eric M. Roberts -- Elasmobranchs from Upper Cretaceous freshwater facies in southern Utah / James I. Kirkland, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Donald B. Brinkman -- Freshwater Osteichthyes from the Cenomanian to Late Campanian of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah / Donald B. Brinkman, Michael G. Newbrey, Andrew G. Neuman, Jeffrey G. Eaton -- Preliminary report on salamanders (Lissamphibia; Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous (Llate Cenomanian-Late Campanian) of southern Utah, U.S.A. / James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli -- Anuran Ilia from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah : diversity and stratigraphic patterns / Zbyněk Roček, James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Tomáš Přikryl -- Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / J. Howard Hutchison, Michael J. Knell, Donald B. Brinkman -- Review of Late Cretaceous mammalian faunas of the Kaiparowits and Paunsaugunt plateaus, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli -- Late Cretaceous mammals from Bryce Canyon National Park and vicinity, Paunsaugunt Plateau, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton -- 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 / Randall L. Nydam -- Crocodyliforms from the late Cretaceous of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and vicinity, southern Utah, U.S.A. / Randall B. Irmis, J. Howard Hutchison, Joseph J.W. Sertich, Alan L. Titus -- Review of Late Cretaceous ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase region, southern Utah / Mark A. Loewen, Michael E. Burns, Michael A. Getty, James I. Kirkland, Matthew K. Vickaryous -- Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary studies / Terry A. Gates, Eric K. Lund, C.A. Boyd, Donald D. DeBlieux, Alan L. Titus, David C. Evans, Michael A. Getty, James I. Kirkland, Jeffrey G. Eaton -- Review of pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah / David C. Evans, Thomas Williamson, Mark A. Loewen, James I. Kirkland -- Ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase of southern Utah / Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Scott D. Sampson, Michael A. Getty, Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O'Connor -- Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs of southern Utah / Lindsay E. Zanno, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Gy-Su Kim, Leon P.A.M. Claessens, Christopher T. McGarrity -- A trackmaker for Saurexallopus : ichnological evidence for oviraptorosaurian tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley -- 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 / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley -- Fossil vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), southern Utah / L. Barry Albright III, David D. Gillette, Alan L. Titus -- Paleontological overview and taphonomy of the Middle Campanian Wahweap Formation in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument / Donald D. DeBlieux, James I. Kirkland, Terry A. Gates, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Michael A. Getty, Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Martha C. Hayden -- Taphonomy of a subadult Teratophoneus curriei (Tyrannosauridae) from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah / Jelle P. Wiersma, Mark A. Loewen -- A new macrovertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah / Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Eric M. Roberts, Michael A. Getty. Presents a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America by examining the research efforts and discoveries of paleontologists in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. |
| Physical Description: |
xvi, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780253008831 0253008832 |