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Vertebrate
Paleontology in Utah
David D. Gillette, Editor
Utah Geological Survey
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Paleozoic || Mesozoic
|| Cenozoic
INTRODUCTION ix
David D. Gillette
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
David D. Gillette
1. THE DEVONIAN VERTEBRATES OF UTAH 1
David K. Elliott, Randal C. Reed, and Heidemarie G. Johnson
2. LATE PALEOZOIC FISHES OF UTAH 13
Stuart S. Sumida, Gavan M. Albright, Elizabeth A. Rega
3. LATE PALEOZOIC AMPHIBIAN-GRADE TETRAPODS OF UTAH 21
Stuart S. Sumida, James B. D. Walliser, and R. Eric Lombard
4. LATE PALEOZOIC AMNIOTES AND THEIR NEAR RELATIVES FROM UTAH
AND NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA, WITH COMMENTS ON THE PERMIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN
BOUNDARY IN UTAH AND NORTHERN ARIZONA 31
Stuart S. Sumida, R. Eric Lombard, David S Berman, and Amy C.
Henrici
5. SMALL FOSSIL VERTEBRATES FROM THE CHINLE FORMATION (UPPER TRIASSIC)
OF SOUTHERN UTAH 45
J. Michael Parrish
6. A DINOSAUR TRACK SITE IN THE NAVAJO-NUGGET SANDSTONE, RED
FLEET RESERVOIR, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH 51
Alden H. Hamblin and Sue Ann Bilbey
7. THE FIRST DISCOVERIES OF DINOSAURS IN THE AMERICAN WEST 59
Brent H. Breithaupt
8. MARSH AND "MEGALOSAURUS" - UTAH’S FIRST THEROPOD DINOSAUR
67
Sue Ann Bilbey and James Evan Hall
9. THE HISTORY OF DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT'S DOUGLASS QUARRY:
THE PARK SERVICE YEARS 71
Ann S. Elder
10. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF DINOSAURS IN THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON
FORMATION OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR, USA 77
Christine E. Turner and Fred Peterson
11. STRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FOSSILS IN
THE UPPER PART OF THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION OF THE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION 115
George F. Engelmann
12. TAPHONOMY OF THE CLEVELAND-LLOYD DINOSAUR QUARRY IN THE
MORRISON FORMATION, CENTRAL UTAH - A LETHAL SPRING-FED POND 121
Sue Ann Bilbey
13. MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN A LARGE SPECIMEN OF ALLOSAURUS
FRAGILIS, UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, EASTERN UTAH 135
David K. Smith, Dean R. Richmond, and Paul J. Bybee
14. THE BEAKED JAWS OF STEGOSAURS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR
OTHER ORNITHISCHIANS 143
Stephen A. Czerkas
15. UPPER JURASSIC LIZARDS FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION OF DINOSAUR
NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH 151
Susan E. Evans and Daniel J. Chure
16. GLIRODON GRANDIS, A NEW MULTITUBERCULATE MAMMAL FROM THE
UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION 161
George F. Engelmann and George Callison
17. DEEP DINOSAUR TRACKS IN THE MORRISON FORMATION: SOLE MARKS
THAT ARE REALLY SOLE MARKS 179
George F. Engelmann and Stephen T. Hasiotis
18. POSSIBLE TURTLE TRACKS FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION OF SOUTHERN
UTAH 185
John R. Foster, Martin G. Lockley, and Janet Brockett
19. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON BORINGS IN JURASSIC DINOSAUR BONES:
EVIDENCE FOR INVERTEBRATE-VERTEBRATE INTERACTIONS 193
Stephen T. Hasiotis, Anthony R. Fiorillo, and Rebecca R. Hanna
20. DISTRIBUTION OF VERTEBRATE FAUNAS IN THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN
FORMATION, EAST-CENTRAL UTAH 201
James I. Kirkland, Richard L. Cifelli, Brooks B. Britt, Donald
L. Burge, Frank L. DeCourten, Jeffery G. Eaton, and J. Michael
Parrish
21. MEDIAL CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATES FROM THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION,
EMERY COUNTY, UTAH: THE MUSSENTUCHIT LOCAL FAUNA 219
Richard L. Cifelli, Randall L. Nydam, James D. Gardner, Anne Weil,
Jeffrey G. Eaton, James I. Kirkland, and Scott K. Madsen
22. ANKYLOSAURS (DINOSAURIA: ORNITHISCHIA) OF THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN
FORMATION, UTAH, AND THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION 243
Kenneth Carpenter, James I. Kirkland, Donald Burge, and John Bird
23. DINOSAUR TRACKS FROM THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF EASTERN
UTAH: A PRELIMINARY REPORT 253
Martin G. Lockley, James I. Kirkland, Frank L. DeCourten, Brooks
B. Britt, and Stephen T. Hasiotis
24. NON-MAMMALIAN MICROVERTEBRATE REMAINS FROM THE ROBISON EGGSHELL
SITE, CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION (LOWER CRETACEOUS), EMERY COUNTY,
UTAH 259
Anthony R. Fiorillo
25. OCCURRENCE AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK OF A PLESIOSAUR
FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS TROPIC SHALE OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH 269
David D. Gillette, Martha C. Hayden, and Alan L. Titus
26. PROGNATHODON STADTMANI NEW SPECIES (MOSASAURIDAE) FROM THE
CRETACEOUS (EARLY CAMPANIAN) MANCOS SHALE 275
Michael S. Kass
27. HADROSAUR SKIN IMPRESSIONS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS NESLEN
FORMATION, BOOK CLIFFS, UTAH: MORPHOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CONTEXT 295
Brian G. Anderson, Reese E. Barrick, Mary L. Droser, and Kenneth
L. Stadtman
28. POLYGLYPHANODONTINAE (SQUAMATA:TEIIDAE) FROM THE MEDIAL
AND LATE CRETACEOUS: NEW TAXA FROM UTAH, U.S.A. AND BAJA CALIFORNIA
DEL NORTE, MEXICO 303
Randall L. Nydam
29. DINOSAUR TEETH FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (TURONIAN-JUDITHIAN)
OF SOUTHERN UTAH 319
J. Michael Parrish
30. VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS ROCKS OF
THE MARKAGUNT PLATEAU, SOUTHWESTERN UTAH 323
Jeffrey G. Eaton, Steve Diem, J. David Archibald, Christopher
Schierup, and Heidi Munk
31. VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF THE PAUNSAUGUNT PLATEAU, UPPER
CRETACEOUS, SOUTHWESTERN UTAH 335
Jeffrey G. Eaton
32. VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF THE IRON SPRINGS FORMATION, UPPER
CRETACEOUS, SOUTHWESTERN UTAH 339
Jeffrey G. Eaton
33. CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATE FAUNAS FROM THE KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU,
SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH 345
Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli, J. Howard Hutchison, James
I. Kirkland, and J. Michael Parrish
34. PTEROSAUR AND BIRD TRACKS FROM A NEW LATE CRETACEOUS LOCALITY
IN UTAH 355
Martin G. Lockley
35. EGGS AND EGGSHELL FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS NORTH HORN FORMATION,
CENTRAL UTAH 361
Emily S. Bray
36. VERTEBRATE FAUNAS OF THE NORTH HORN FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS-LOWER
PALEOCENE), EMERY AND SANPETE COUNTIES, UTAH 377
Richard L. Cifelli, Randall L. Nydam, Jeffrey G. Eaton, James
D. Gardner, and James I. Kirkland
37. BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY (KT)
BOUNDARY INTERVAL AT NORTH HORN MOUNTAIN, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH 389
Rose Difley and A. A. Ekdale
38. MAMMALS OF THE MIDDLE EOCENE UINTA FORMATION 401
D. Tab Rasmussen, Glenn C. Conroy, Anthony R. Friscia, K. Elizabeth
Townsend, and Mary D. Kinkel
39. THE MAMMALS OF THE EOCENE DUCHESNE RIVER FORMATION 421
D. Tab Rasmussen, Alden H. Hamblin, and Alan R. Tabrum
40. MIDDLE EOCENE VERTEBRATES FROM THE UINTA BASIN, UTAH, AND
THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FAUNAS FROM THE SOUTHERN GREEN RIVER BASIN,
WYOMING 429
Gregg F. Gunnell and William S. Bartels
41. VERTEBRATE FOOTPRINTS IN THE DUCHESNE RIVER AND UINTA FORMATIONS
(MIDDLE TO LATE EOCENE), UINTA BASIN, UTAH 443
Alden H. Hamblin, William A. S. Sarjeant, and David A. E. Spalding
42. COMMENTS ON AMPHIBIANS FROM THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WITH
A DESCRIPTION OF A FOSSIL TADPOLE 455
James D. Gardner
43. VERTEBRATES OF THE TURTLE BASIN LOCAL FAUNA, MIDDLE EOCENE,
SEVIER PLATEAU, SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH 463
Jeffrey G. Eaton, J. Howard Hutchison, Patricia A. Holroyd, Patrick
M. Goldstrand, and William W. Korth
44. LATE TERTIARY BASINS AND VERTEBRATE FAUNAS ALONG THE NEVADA-UTAH
BORDER 469
Robert E. Reynolds and Everett H. Lindsay
45. A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A NEW CLARENDONIAN (LATE MIOCENE)
MAMMALIAN FAUNA FROM NORTHWESTERN UTAH 479
Allen R. Tedrow and Steven F. Robison
46. AN ADDITIONAL OCCURRENCE OF SIMOCYON (MAMMALIA, CARNIVORA,
PROCYONIDAE) IN NORTH AMERICA 487
Allen R. Tedrow, Jon A. Baskin, and Steven F. Robison
47. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE LITTLE DELL DAM FAUNA, SALT LAKE
COUNTY, UTAH (MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE, IRVINGTONIAN LAND MAMMAL AGE)
495
David D. Gillette, Christopher J. Bell, and Martha C. Hayden
48. LATE QUATERNARY VERTEBRATE HISTORY OF THE GREAT BASIN 501
Timothy H. Heaton
49. THE FIRST RECORD OF JEFFERSON'S GROUND SLOTH, MEGALONYX
JEFFERSONII, IN UTAH (PLEISTOCENE, RANCHOLABREAN LAND MAMMAL AGE)
509
David D. Gillette, H. Gregory McDonald, and Martha C. Hayden
50. CATALOGUE OF NEW PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN SITES AND RECOVERED
FOSSILS FROM UTAH 523
David D. Gillette and Wade E. Miller
51. THE COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH (MAMMUTHUS COLUMBI) FROM ESCALANTE
VALLEY, IRON COUNTY, UTAH -- DISCOVERY AND IMPLICATIONS 531
Paul R. Larson
52. AN EARLY HOLOCENE, HIGH-ALTITUDE VERTEBRATE FAUNULE FROM
CENTRAL UTAH 537
Kent S. Smith, Richard L. Cifelli, and Nicholas J. Czaplewski
AUTHOR INDEX 545
KEY WORD INDEX 546
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