Plants in Mesozoic Time

Plants in Mesozoic Time
Author: Carole T. Gee
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0253001994

Plants in Mesozoic Time showcases the latest research of broad botanical and paleontological interest from the world's experts on Mesozoic plant life. Each chapter covers a special aspect of a particular plant group -- ranging from horsetails to ginkgophytes, from cycads to conifers -- and relates it to key innovations in structure, phylogenetic relationships, the Mesozoic flora, or to animals such as plant-eating dinosaurs. The book's geographic scope ranges from Antarctica and Argentina to the western interior of North America, with studies on the reconstruction of the Late Jurassic vegetation of the Morrison Formation and on fossil angiosperm lianas from Late Cretaceous deposits in Utah and New Mexico. The volume also includes cutting-edge studies on the evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") of Mesozoic forests, the phylogenetic analysis of the still enigmatic bennettitaleans, and the genetic developmental controls of the oldest flowers in the fossil record.

Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah

Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah
Author: David D. Gillette
Publisher: Utah Geological Survey
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1557916349

The 52 papers in this vary in content from summaries or state-of-knowledge treatments, to detailed contributions that describe new species. Although the distinction is subtle, the title (Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah) indicates the science of paleontology in the state of Utah, rather than the even more ambitious intent if it were given the title “Vertebrate Paleontology of Utah” which would promise an encyclopedic treatment of the subject. The science of vertebrate paleontology in Utah is robust and intense. It has grown prodigiously in the past decade, and promises to continue to grow indefinitely. This research benefits everyone in the state, through Utah’s muse ums and educational institutions, which are the direct beneficiaries.

Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia

Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia
Author: Àngel Galobart
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-10-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0253356229

Written for the general reader, this book is both a colorful introduction to the history and study of dinosaurs and an eye-opening survey of dinosaur discoveries in Spain. At the time of the dinosaurs, Iberia was in the process of becoming a peninsula of Continental Europe and looked very different than it does today. Now an area only slightly larger than Vermont and New Hampshire, Eastern Iberia contains one of the richest fossil records of Mesozoic vertebrates in Europe. This record spans an 80-million-year period that includes key moments in Earth's history, such as the extinction events at the Jurassic-Cretaceous and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundaries. Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia tells the story of Iberia's tumultuous geological history and presents a detailed synthesis of the region's dinosaur discoveries, with fact sheets and reconstructions of each species found there. This volume also describes the flora and fauna that made up the ancient ecosystems and explores the paleobiogeography of this dynamic region.

Petrology of the Morrison Formation in the Colorado Plateau Region

Petrology of the Morrison Formation in the Colorado Plateau Region
Author: Robert Allen Cadigan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1967
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

Additional title page description: Interpretation of regional compositional and textural trends in sandstone strata in a major uranium-ore-bearing formation which was deposited in a subsiding continental basin in Late Jurassic time.

Cedar Mountain and Dakota Formations Around Dinosaur National Monument

Cedar Mountain and Dakota Formations Around Dinosaur National Monument
Author: Douglas A. Sprinkel
Publisher: Utah Geological Survey
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2012
Genre: Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. and Utah)
ISBN: 1557918635

This 20 page report describes the stratigraphy of the Cedar Mountain and Dakota formations in and around Dinosaur National Monument in northeast Utah and includes new palynology and radiometric age data. The contract between these formations is unconformable in which the Dakota formation has incised into the underlying Cedar Mountain formation. Locally, the Dakota includes a basal marine mudstone and shale unit that contains late Albian dinoflagellate cysts, which represents peak sea level during the Kiowa-Skull Creek depositional cycle and indicates the first marine incursion of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway into Utah.