Dalton Wells: Geology and significance of debris-flow-hosted dinosaur bonebeds in the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of eastern Utah, USA

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 217-245

  Eberth, David A ^a   Britt, Brooks B ^b   Scheetz, Rod ^b   Stadtman, Kenneth L ^b   Brinkman, Donald B ^a  

^a ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonebed; Cedar Mountain Formation; Cretaceous; Debris flow; Dinosaur; Utah

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRETACEOUS; DEBRIS FLOW; DINOSAUR; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

CEDAR MOUNTAIN; MOAB; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33744551656     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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