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At the Top of the Grand Staircase : the Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah /
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 early twenty-first century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Life of the past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 early twenty-first 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. This book 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (656 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253008961 0253008964 |