At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

Author/Contributor(s):	Titus, Alan L ; Loewen, Mark A ; Albright, L Barry ; Arthur, Michael A ; Barclay, Richard ; Boyd, Clint ; Brinkman, Donald B ; Burns, Michael E ; Cidelli, Richard L ; Claessens, Leon P ; Dean, Walter E ; Deblieux, Don ; Eaton, Jeffrey G ; Farke, Andrew A ; Gardner, James D ; Gates, Terry A ; Gierlinski, Gerard D ; Gillette, David D ; Hayden, Martha C ; Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah ; Irmis, Randall ; Jinnah, Zubair Ali ; Johnson, Kirk ; Kim, Gy-Su ; Kirkland, James I ; Kline, Douglas ; Zanno, Lindsay ; Knell, Michael ; Lund, Eric K ; Miller, Ian M ; Neuman, Andrew G ; Newbrey, Michael ; Nyoam, Randall L ; O'Connor, Patrick M ; Prikryl, Tomas ; Roberts, Eric M ; Rocek, Zbynek ; Sampson, Scott D ; Sertich, Joseph ; Tapanila, Leif ; Simpson, Edward L ; Vickaryous, Matthew K ; Wiersma, Jelle ; Williamson, Thomas E ; Wizevich, Michael
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	10/09/2013
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.