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
ISBN-10
0253008964
ISBN-13
9780253008961
Category
Science
Pages
656
Language
English
Published
2013-10-09
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Authors
Alan L. Titus, Mark A. Loewen

Description

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort 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 a Late Cretaceous therizinosaur ever collected from North America, and much more. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 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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