Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior by Spencer G. Lucas Robert M. Sullivan ISBN 15244156 instant download

Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior by Spencer G. Lucas Robert M. Sullivan ISBN 15244156 instant download

Geology, Paleoecology, Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy

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Stratigraphy and age of the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, west-central

San Juan Basin, NewMexico…....................… S. G. Lucas,A. P. Hunt and R. M.Sullivan 1

TheKirtlandian land-vertebrate “age”—faunal composition,temporal position and

biostratigraphic correlation in the nonmarine Upper Cretaceous of

western NorthAmerica……................................................. R. M.Sullivan and S.G. Lucas 7

3 Late Cretaceous vertebrates andclimate change in the southern Western Interior:

Big Bend National Park, Texas…….......................………..............…………J. T. Sankey 31

4 Thenonmammalian vertebrate microfossil assemblages ofthe Mesaverde

Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the WindRiver andBighorn basins,

Wyoming…...............................................................D. G. DeMar, Jr. and B. H. Breithaupt 33

5 Paleowildfire characteristics and behavior: Diagenetic changes occurring in vascular

bone during cremation by wildfire reveal ancient fire behavior…..........….M. D.Wegweiser 55

Tracks and traces

6 Tetrapod ichnofacies of the Cretaceous…...................................A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas 61

7 Ferdinand V. Hayden’s 1868 “Huge Bird” tracks in the UpperCretaceous

AlmondFormation: Field evidence for the first dinosaur fossil discovered

in Wyoming…..................................................................J. E. Deibert and B. H. Breithaupt 69

8 Dinosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation, west-central

NewMexico………....................................................….…….S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt 79

9 Giant theropod tracks from the Cretaceous Dakota Group of northeastern

New Mexico….....................................................M. Lockley, M.Matsukawa and D.Witt 83

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Newdinosaur and crocodile tracksites from the Cretaceous Dakota Group of the Colorado

Front Range, Boulder and Jefferson Counties, Colorado…..........................M. G. Lockley,

R. Kukihara and L. Mitchell

Anankylosaur-dominated dinosaur tracksite in the Cretaceous Dakota Group of Colorado:

Paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic context…..............M. Lockley, J. Holbrook,

R. Kukihara and M. Matsukawa

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12 Dinosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Iron Springs Formation,

Iron County, Utah…….............A. R. C. Milner, G. S. Vice, J. D. Harris and M.G. Lockley 105