Rocky Mountain Section - 75th Annual Meeting - 2025

Session No. 35
Tuesday, 20 May 2025: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Cascade E (Utah Valley Convention Center)

T2. Laramidia: Biota, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous of Western North America I

 

Ethan Warner-Cowgill, Joseph Sertich and Brent H. Breithaupt, Advocates
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Start Time
 
10:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:20 AM
TAPHONOMIC, STRATIGRAPHIC, AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HADROSAURIDS FROM THE WAHWEAP FORMATION (EARLY TO MIDDLE CAMPANIAN): INSIGHTS INTO THEIR EARLY EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA
WATKINS, Madison Syrett1, TITUS, Alan2, KNOLL, Katja2, CASSIANO, Bryce3, SERTICH, Joseph4, SHIMER, Grant T., PhD1 and HARRINGTON, Arianna5, (1)Southern Utah University, Geosciences Department, Cedar City, UT 84721, (2)Bureau of Land Management, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 669 S. Highway 89A, Kanab, UT 84741, (3)Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, (4)Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, (5)Biology Department, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT 84721
10:35 AM
THE TAPHONOMY AND FAUNA OF THE EARLIEST LATE CRETACEOUS (CENOMANIAN) ROBISON BONEBED, WAYAN FORMATION, EASTERN IDAHO
KRUMENACKER, L. J., Department of Geological Sciences and Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209; General Education, College of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 83404, GAY, Robert, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 and BRITT, Brooks, Geological Sciences Department & Museum of Paleontology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
10:50 AM
STRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF UPPER CRETACEOUS STRATA IN CENTRAL WYOMING: IMPLICATIONS FOR CENTRAL LARAMIDIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY
TENNEY, Zachary1, SLATTERY, Joshua1, MINOR, Keith2 and SUNDELL, Kent3, (1)Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, (3)Earth and Environmental Science, Casper College, 125 College Drive, Casper, WY 82601
11:05 AM
VERTEBRATE BODY AND TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) NESLEN FORMATION, UTAH, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY
LIVELY, Joshua, Prehistoric Museum, Utah State University Eastern, 155 E Main St, Price, UT 84501-3033 and TOSCANINI, Marcello, Western Slope Paleontological Services, PO Box 3321, Grand Junction, CO 81502
11:20 AM
NEW MONSTERSAUR SPECIMENS FROM THE KAIPAROWITS FORMATION OF UTAH REVEAL UNEXPECTED RICHNESS OF LARGE-BODIED LIZARDS IN LATE CRETACEOUS NORTH AMERICA
WOOLLEY, Charles, Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007; Univeristy of Southern California Department of Earth Sciences, 3651 Trousdale Pkwy, ZHS 119, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0001, SERTICH, Joseph, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, MELSTROM, Keegan M., Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034; Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, IRMIS, Randall, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; University of Utah, Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 and SMITH, Nathan D., Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007
11:35 AM
CLIMATE GRADIENTS AND FILTER CORRIDORS: FREQUENT ASIA-LARAMIDIA BIOTIC INTERCHANGE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF LARAMIDIA’S DINOSAUR “PROVINCIALITY”
SERTICH, Joseph, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama 0000, Panama
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