At the top of the grand staircase : the late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

At the top of the grand staircase : the late Cretaceous of Southern Utah / edited by Alan L. Titus and Mark A. Loewen.

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...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Life of the past.
Subjects:
Geology, Stratigraphic > Cretaceous.
Paleontology > Cretaceous.
Geology > Utah.
Animals, Fossil > Utah.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. One hundred thirty years of Cretaceous research in southern Utah / Alan L. Titus
  • 2. Geologic overview / Alan L. Titus, Eric M. Roberts, L. Barry Albright III
  • 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 / Walter E. Dean, Erle G. Kauffman, Michael A. Arthur
  • 4. Tectonic and sedimentary controls, age, and correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, southern Utah / Zubair Jinnah
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 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 / Ian M. Miller, Kirk R. Johnson, Douglas E. Kline, [dagger] Douglas J. Nichols, Richard S. Barclay
  • 8. Continental invertebrates and trace fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / Leif Tapanila, Eric M. Roberts
  • 9. Elasmobranchs from Upper Cretaceous freshwater facies in southern Utah / James I. Kirkland, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Donald B. Brinkman
  • 10. 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
  • 11. Preliminary report on salamanders (Lissamphibia; Caudata) from the late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian-late Campanian) of southern Utah, U.S.A. / James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli
  • 12. Anuran ilia from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah : diversity and stratigraphic patterns / Zbyněk Roček, James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Tomáš Přikryl
  • 13. Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / J. Howard Hutchison, Michael J. Knell, Donald B. Brinkman
  • 14. Review of late Cretaceous mammalian faunas of the Kaiparowits and Paunsaugunt plateaus, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli
  • 15. Late Cretaceous mammals from Bryce Canyon National Park and vicinity, Paunsaugunt Plateau, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton
  • 16. 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
  • 17. 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
  • 18. 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
  • 19. 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
  • 20. Review of pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah / David C. Evans, Thomas Williamson, Mark A. Loewen, James I. Kirkland
  • 21. 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
  • 22. 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
  • 23. A trackmaker for Saurexallopus : ichnological evidence for oviraptorosaurian tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley
  • 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 / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley
  • 25. Fossil vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), southern Utah / L. Barry Albright III, David D. Gillette, Alan L. Titus
  • 26. 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
  • 27. Taphonomy of a subadult Teratophoneus curriei (Tyrannosauridae) from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah / Jelle P. Wiersma, Mark A. Loewen
  • 28. A new macrovertebrate assemblage from the late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah / Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Eric M. Roberts, Michael A. Getty.

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