Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
1 online resource (656 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780253008961
Serie:
Life of the Past Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1365235
DDC:
560.97925
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkung:
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, 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.
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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