At the top of the Grand Staircase : the late Cretaceous of southern Utah / edited by Alan L. Titus and Mark A. Loewen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Titus, Alan L.

Loewen, Mark A.

Series:

Life of the Past

Life of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Stratigraphic--Cretaceous.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Paleontology--Cretaceous.

Paleontology.

Geology--Utah.

Geology.

Animals, Fossil--Utah.

Animals, Fossil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (656 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 new 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

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1 One Hundred Thirty Years of Cretaceous Research in Southern Utah; 2 Geologic Overview; 3 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; 4 Tectonic and Sedimentary Controls, Age, and Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Southern Utah

5 Implications of the Internal Plumbing of a Late Cretaceous Sand Volcano: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah6 The Kaiparowits Formation: A Remarkable Record of Late Cretaceous Terrestrial Environments, Ecosystems, and Evolution in Western North America; 7 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; 8 Continental Invertebrates and Trace Fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah

9 Elasmobranchs from Upper Cretaceous Freshwater Facies in Southern Utah10 Freshwater Osteichthyes from the Cenomanian to Late Campanian of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah; 11 Preliminary Report on Salamanders (Lissamphibia; Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous (Late Cenomanian-Late Campanian) of Southern Utah, U.S.A.; 12 Anuran Ilia from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah - Diversity and Stratigraphic Patterns; 13 Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah; 14 Review of Late Cretaceous Mammalian Faunas of the Kaiparowits and Paunsaugunt Plateaus, Southwestern Utah

15 Late Cretaceous Mammals from Bryce Canyon National Park and Vicinity, Paunsaugunt Plateau, Southwestern Utah16 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; 17 Crocodyliforms from the Late Cretaceous of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Vicinity, Southern Utah, U.S.A.; 18 Review of Late Cretaceous Ankylosaurian Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase Region, Southern Utah

19 Ornithopod Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Region, Utah, and Their Role in Paleobiogeographic and Macroevolutionary Studies20 Review of Pachycephalosaurian Dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Southern Utah; 21 Ceratopsid Dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase of Southern Utah; 22 Late Cretaceous Theropod Dinosaurs of Southern Utah; 23 A Trackmaker for Saurexallopus: Ichnological Evidence for Oviraptorosaurian Tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America

24 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-00896-4

OCLC:

857365429