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

By Mark Loewen

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253008832
• ISBN13: 9780253008831
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.6" x 11.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher