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Utah Dinosaur Record PDF
Utah Dinosaur Record PDF
Utah Dinosaur Record PDF
DAKOTA FORMATION
Ruby Ranch
Member
Conglomerate
Barremian
Tithonian
150
Kimmeridgian
175
JURASSIC
Oxfordian
Callovian
Bathonian
Bajocian
Aalenian
Yellow Cat
Member
central
Utah
eastern
Utah
MORRISON FORMATION
hiatus
Pliensbachian
new
pachycephalosaurs
Zuniceratops
Nothronychus
FIRST
DINOSAUR
TRIASSIC
225
tyrannosaurid
teeth
ornithomimid
Eolambia
troodontid teeth
neoceratopsian teeth
Tennontosaurus
Animantarx
Cedarpelta
Abydosaurus
pleurocoelid
brachiosaurids
Deinonychus
Acrocanthosaurus
Nedcolbertia
Planicoxa &
Dakotadon ?
new camarasaurid
new titanosaurid
Gastonia
new
hypsilophodontid
Utahraptor
new
troodontid
new large
polacanthine
ankylosaur
Falcarius
new
iguanodont
new
sauropods
Dryosaurus
Allosaurus
Ceratosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Camarasaurus
Haplocanthosaurus
Diplodocus
Apatosaurus
Many horizons
with dinosaur
tracks
Megapnosaurus
( Grallator tracks)
Seitaad &
( Otozoum tracks)
First North
American dinosaurs
hiatus
Non-dinosaurian tracks
MOENKOPI FORMATION
Camptosaurus
Torvosaurus
Ladnian
PERMIAN
Cedarosaurus
new carnosaurid
KAYENTA FORMATION
Anisian
250
tiny pleurocoelid
brachiosaurid teeth
nodosaurids
Stegosaurus
Carnian
Olenekian
Induan
nodosaurid
teeth
Pachycephalosaurid
teeth
tiny
ornithopod
Megapnosaurus
Norian
nodosaurids
advanced
hadrosauromorphs
Marshosaurus &
Stokesosaurus
ENTRADA SANDSTONE
CARMEL FORMATION
PAGE SANDSTONE
Edmontonia
new tyrannosaurid
hadrosaurine
Widely-known
Jurassic dinosaur faunas
NAVAJO SANDSTONE
Hettangian
Rhaetian
Isolation of North
America resulting
in local extinctions
and increased
endemism
Dinosaurs
with European
affinities
Hagryphus
Parasaurolophus
Diabloceratops
New lowest
Cretaceous
faunal level
Toarcian
Sinemurian
200
Neocomian
Gryposaurus
new tyrannosaurids
First ceratopsomorphs
Local extinction
of sauropods
Asian immigration
induced extinction
and origin of North
American Late
Cretaceous dinosaur
fauna
Mussentuchit Member
Buckhorn
Aptian
new chasmosaurines
Albian
First centrosaurines
& hadrosaurids
Ornithomimus
Cenomanian
ankylosaurid teeth
CEDAR MOUNTAIN
FORMATION
CRETACEOUS
125
Upper
100
long-horned
centrosaurines
hiatus
Dilophosaurus ?
Coelophysis
KAIPAROWITS FORMATION
Campanian
Santonian
Coniacian
Turonian
Torosaurus
Alamosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Maastrichtian
DINOSAUR
EXTINCTION 75
Southern Tyrannosaurus
& Alamosaurus fauna
ORIGIN OF
FLOWERS
65
UTAHS MESOZOIC
ROCK RECORD
GEOLOGIC
TIME SCALE