Detrital zircon record of magmatism and sediment dispersal across the North American Cordilleran arc system (28–48° N)

TM Schwartz, KD Surpless, JP Colgan… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
As zircon U-Pb geochronology has become a leading method in sediment provenance
studies and basin analysis over the past 20 years, the volume of detrital zircon data made …

Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

J Ramezani, TL Beveridge, RR Rogers, DA Eberth… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The spectacular fossil fauna and flora preserved in the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata of
North America's Western Interior Basin record an exceptional peak in the diversification of …

On the role of tectonics in stimulating the Cretaceous diversification of mammals

LN Weaver, JR Kelson, RM Holder, NA Niemi… - Earth-science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mammals rose to prominence in terrestrial ecosystems after the Cretaceous–Paleogene
mass extinction, but the mammalian lineages characteristic of Paleogene faunas began their …

Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the non-marine Cretaceous of Utah

JI Kirkland, JJW Sertich, AL Titus - Geological Society, London …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Over the past 30 years, exploration of the terrestrial Mesozoic section in Utah has resulted in
a more than five-fold increase in the known species of dinosaurs. A highly resolved temporal …

Refined geochronology and revised stratigraphic nomenclature of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Utah, USA and the age of early Campanian vertebrates …

TL Beveridge, EM Roberts, J Ramezani, AL Titus… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Western Interior of North America preserves one of the most complete
successions of Upper Cretaceous marine and non-marine strata in the world; among these …

[HTML][HTML] Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for …

AL Titus, K Knoll, JJW Sertich, D Yamamura… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Tyrannosaurids are hypothesized to be gregarious, possibly parasocial carnivores engaging
in cooperative hunting and extended parental care. A tyrannosaurid (cf. Teratophoneus …

A new Late Cretaceous leaf mine Leucopteropsa spiralae gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) represents the first confirmed fossil evidence of the …

SA Maccracken, JC Sohn, IM Miller… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
A new fossil leaf mine ichnogenus and species, Leucopteropsa spiralae gen. et sp.
nov.(Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae), from the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation …

Insect herbivory on Catula gettyi gen. et sp. nov. (Lauraceae) from the Kaiparowits Formation (Late Cretaceous, Utah, USA)

SA Maccracken, IM Miller, KR Johnson, JM Sertich… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian Stage) Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA,
preserves abundant plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate fossil taxa. Taken together, these …

Age constraint for the Moreno Hill Formation (Zuni Basin) by CA-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology

CD Cilliers, RT Tucker, JL Crowley, LE Zanno - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Abstract The “mid-Cretaceous”(~ 125–80 Ma) was punctuated by major plate-tectonic
upheavals resulting in widespread volcanism, mountain-building, eustatic sea-level …

Faulty foundations: Early breakup of the southern Utah Cordilleran foreland basin

GA Enriquez St. Pierre, CL Johnson - Bulletin, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Anomalous features of Upper Cretaceous strata in southern Utah challenge existing
tectonic and depositional models of the Cordilleran foreland basin. Extreme thickness …