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List of the Mesozoic life of Utah information


This list of the Mesozoic life of Utah contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Utah and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

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List of the Mesozoic life of Utah

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list of the Mesozoic life of Utah contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of...

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Timeline of the evolutionary history of life

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appearance in the fossil record of abundant, shell-forming and/or trace-making organisms. It is subdivided into three eras, the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic...

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List of the prehistoric life of Utah

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This list of the prehistoric life of Utah contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state...

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Zion National Park

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southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique...

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List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage

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This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended...

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Morrison Formation

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North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho. Equivalent rocks under different...

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Alamosaurus

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(Sauropoda) from the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (eds...

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Utahraptor

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(meaning "Utah's predator") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid (a group of feathered carnivorous theropods) dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous...

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List of dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation

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have been recovered in Utah. Indeterminate theropod tracks have been recovered from both Utah and Arizona. Coelurosaurs, the group of theropods most closely...

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Allosaurus

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). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press. pp. 337–363. Foster, John R. (2003). Paleoecological Analysis of the Vertebrate Fauna of the Morrison...

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List of sauropodomorph type specimens

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from the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah". In Tanke, Darren H.; Carpenter, Kenneth (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate...

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Mojave Desert

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and Utah. The Mojave Desert, together with the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, form a larger North American Desert. Of these, the Mojave...

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Kenneth Carpenter

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paleontologist. He is the former director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research...

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List of common misconceptions

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avian theropods survive as part of the modern fauna. Mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and other aquatic Mesozoic diapsids were not dinosaurs. Despite...

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Cedar Mountain Formation

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the poison strip member of the cedar mountain formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah". In Tanke, Darren; Carpenter, Ken (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life:...

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List of pathological dinosaur specimens

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Dinosaurian humeral periostitis: a case of a juxtacortical lesion in the fossil record: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter...

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Triassic

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to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period of the Mesozoic Era. Both the start and end of the period...

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Agathoxylon

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late Palaeozoic to the end of the Mesozoic, Agathoxylon is common from the Carboniferous to Triassic. Agathoxylon represents the wood of multiple conifer...

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Centrosaurinae

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primarily from the northern region of Laramidia (modern day Alberta, Montana, and Alaska) but isolated taxa have been found in China and Utah as well. Defining...

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Western United States

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Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. The Rocky Mountains expose igneous and metamorphic rock both from the Precambrian and from the Phanerozoic eon. The Inter-mountain...

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List of North American dinosaurs

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"Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae". In Tanke, Darren; Carpenter, Ken (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research...

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2018 in arthropod paleontology

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pseudoscorpions and Mesozoic birds, is described from the Cretaceous amber from Myanmar by Xing, McKellar & Gao (2018). A study on the phylogenetic history of spiders...

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Chubutisaurus

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Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (eds.). Indiana University Press...

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List of vertebrate fauna of the Campanian stage

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This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Campanian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended...

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2024 in paleontology

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happened during the Mesozoic, is presented by Choi et al. (2024). Kiel et al. (2024) report the discovery of kelp holdfasts from the Oligocene strata...

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