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At the Top of the Grand Staircase

At the Top of the Grand Staircase The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah - Life of the Past

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 a Late Cretaceous therizinosaur ever collected from North America, and much more. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah is a major stepping stone toward a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253008831
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 551.77097925
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 656
Weight: 2068g
Height: 285mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 44mm