A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, Utah: a determination of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Eolambia caroljonesa dinosaur quarry

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 461-494

  Garrison Jr , James R ^a   Brinkman, Donald ^b   Nichols, Douglas J ^c   Layer, Paul ^d   Burge, Donald ^e   Thayn, Denise ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Albian; Angiosperms; Biostratinomy; Cedar Mountain Formation; Cenomanian; Dakota Formation; Dinosaurs; Geochronology; Iguanodontid; Lacustrine; Mussentuchit Fauna; Mussentuchit Local Fauna; Paleoclimate; Paleoecology; Palynology; Yellow Cat Fauna

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION;

CEDAR MOUNTAIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

DINOSAURIA; EOLAMBIA; IGUANODONTIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34249103250     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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