At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah (Life of the Past)

One hundred thirty years of Cretaceous research in southern Utah / Alan L. Titus -- Geologic overview / Alan L. Titus, Eric M. Roberts, L. Barry Albright III -- Accumulation of organic carbon-rich strata along the Western margin and in the center of the North American Western Interior Seaway during the Cenomanian-Turonian transgression / Walter E. Dean, Erle G. Kauffman, Michael A. Arthur -- Tectonic and sedimentary controls, age, and correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, southern Utah / Zubair Jinnah -- Implications of the internal plumbing of a Late Cretaceous sand volcano : Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah / Edward L. Simpson, Hannah L. Hilbert-Wolf, Michael C. Wizevich, Sarah E. Tindall -- The Kaiparowits Formation : a remarkable record of Late Cretaceous terrestrial environments, ecosystems, and evolution in western North America / Eric M. Roberts, Scott D. Sampson, Alan L. Deino, Samuel A. Bowring, Robert Buchwaldt --;Presents a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America by examining the research efforts and discoveries of paleontologists in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. One hundred thirty years of Cretaceous research in southern Utah / Alan L. Titus -- Geologic overview / Alan L. Titus, Eric M. Roberts, L. Barry Albright III -- Accumulation of organic carbon-rich strata along the Western margin and in the center of the North American Western Interior Seaway during the Cenomanian-Turonian transgression / Walter E. Dean, Erle G. Kauffman, Michael A. Arthur -- Tectonic and sedimentary controls, age, and correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, southern Utah / Zubair Jinnah -- Implications of the internal plumbing of a Late Cretaceous sand volcano : Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah / Edward L. Simpson, Hannah L. Hilbert-Wolf, Michael C. Wizevich, Sarah E. Tindall -- The Kaiparowits Formation : a remarkable record of Late Cretaceous terrestrial environments, ecosystems, and evolution in western North America / Eric M. Roberts, Scott D. Sampson, Alan L. Deino, Samuel A. Bowring, Robert Buchwaldt -- A Late Campanian flora from the Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah, and a brief overview of the widely sampled but little-known Campanian vegetation of the western interior of North America / Ian M. Miller, Kirk R. Johnson, Douglas E. Kline, Douglas J. Nichols, Richard S. Barclay -- Continental invertebrates and trace fossils from the Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / Leif Tapanila, Eric M. Roberts -- Elasmobranchs from Upper Cretaceous freshwater facies in southern Utah / James I. Kirkland, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Donald B. Brinkman -- Freshwater Osteichthyes from the Cenomanian to Late Campanian of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah / Donald B. Brinkman, Michael G. Newbrey, Andrew G. Neuman, Jeffrey G. Eaton -- Preliminary report on salamanders (Lissamphibia Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous (Llate Cenomanian-Late Campanian) of southern Utah, U.S.A. / James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli -- Anuran Ilia from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah : diversity and stratigraphic patterns / Zbyněk Roček, James D. Gardner, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Tomáš Přikryl -- Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah / J. Howard Hutchison, Michael J. Knell, Donald B. Brinkman -- Review of Late Cretaceous mammalian faunas of the Kaiparowits and Paunsaugunt plateaus, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton, Richard L. Cifelli -- Late Cretaceous mammals from Bryce Canyon National Park and vicinity, Paunsaugunt Plateau, southwestern Utah / Jeffrey G. Eaton -- Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of southern Utah : filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the western interior of North America / Randall L. Nydam -- Crocodyliforms from the late Cretaceous of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and vicinity, southern Utah, U.S.A. / Randall B. Irmis, J. Howard Hutchison, Joseph J.W. Sertich, Alan L. Titus -- Review of Late Cretaceous ankylosaurian dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase region, southern Utah / Mark A. Loewen, Michael E. Burns, Michael A. Getty, James I. Kirkland, Matthew K. Vickaryous -- Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary studies / Terry A. Gates, Eric K. Lund, C.A. Boyd, Donald D. DeBlieux, Alan L. Titus, David C. Evans, Michael A. Getty, James I. Kirkland, Jeffrey G. Eaton -- Review of pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah / David C. Evans, Thomas Williamson, Mark A. Loewen, James I. Kirkland -- Ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase of southern Utah / Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Scott D. Sampson, Michael A. Getty, Eric K. Lund, Patrick M. O'Connor -- Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs of southern Utah / Lindsay E. Zanno, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Gy-Su Kim, Leon P.A.M. Claessens, Christopher T. McGarrity -- A trackmaker for Saurexallopus : ichnological evidence for oviraptorosaurian tracks from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley -- First report of probable Therizinosaur (cf. Macropodosaurus) tracks from North America, with notes on the neglected vertebrate ichnofauna of the Ferron Sandstone (Late Cretaceous) of central Utah / Gerard Gierlinski, Martin Lockley -- Fossil vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), southern Utah / L. Barry Albright III, David D. Gillette, Alan L. Titus -- Paleontological overview and taphonomy of the Middle Campanian Wahweap Formation in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument / Donald D. DeBlieux, James I. Kirkland, Terry A. Gates, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Michael A. Getty, Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Martha C. Hayden -- Taphonomy of a subadult Teratophoneus curriei (Tyrannosauridae) from the Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Utah / Jelle P. Wiersma, Mark A. Loewen -- A new macrovertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah / Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Eric M. Roberts, Michael A. Getty. Affrontando il tema della parrocchia, l'autore propone un saggio di ermeneutica del concilio non solo metodologicamente corretto ma anche pastoralmente fecondo. Pur restando la parrocchia un interesse laterale del Vaticano II, grazie all'impulso di questo essa è venuta trasformandosi da istituzione amministrativa a figura pastorale, soggetto missionario attivo, non con un formale ripensamento della sua presenza e della sua azione, ma piuttosto mediante la ridefinizione dei suoi elementi vitali e della fisionomia dei suoi protagonisti. A cinquant'anni dall'indizione del concilio la parrocchia appare ancora un soggetto debole, segnato da un deficit di riflessione teologica non compensato dalla recente attenzione pratica, dovuta alla ristrutturazione della presenza ecclesiale sul territorio. Ma questa identità debole potrebbe oggi costituire uno dei suoi punti di forza, a patto che la logica amministrativa sia abbandonata a favore dello spazio di esercizio della comunione. Concepite per coloro che si riconoscevano dentro la Chiesa, ora le parrocchie sono chiamate a ripensarsi missionariamente e a ritrovare la capacità di trasmettere la fede anche a chi si trova nelle regioni del dubbio e della lontananza.

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 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. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah is a major stepping stone toward a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America.

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 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.