At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

Author:   Alan L. Titus ,  Mark A. Loewen ,  L. Barry Albright ,  Michael A. Arthur
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253008831


Pages:   656
Publication Date:   09 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alan L. Titus ,  Mark A. Loewen ,  L. Barry Albright ,  Michael A. Arthur
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.041kg
ISBN:  

9780253008831


ISBN 10:   0253008832
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   09 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword by Jeffrey G. Eaton Preface 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, Utah 6. 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 Utah 10. 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 Utah 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 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 Studies 20. 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 25. Fossil Vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Southern Utah 26. Paleontological Overview and Taphonomy of the Middle Campanian Wahweap Formation in Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument 27. Taphonomy of a Subadult Teratophoneus curriei (Tyrannosauridae) from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah 28. A New Macrovertebrate Assemblage from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Southern Utah Index

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<p> The work on the Cretaceous of southern Utah in the past decade or so has been extraordinary. What was once a terra incognito has now become one of the most exciting areas for paleontological research in the world.... The scope of this volume is very systematic, starting with sedimentation and tectonics, proceeding with plants and invertebrates, and culminating with analysis of fossil vertebrates. This volume will be very welcome indeed. --Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania--Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania


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Alan L. Titus is Monument Paleontologist at Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in Utah and Adjunct Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah. Mark A. Loewen is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah and Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Utah.

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