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| Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches. Salt Lake City, Utah to Billings, Montana, July 1927, 1989
ISBN: 9781118666968
Platform/Publisher: WOL / American Geophysical Union
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Earth Space & Environmental Sciences; Earth Sciences;
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 322.
In the 1800s western North America was the site of a paleontological "gold rush". Collectors such as F.V. Hayden, J. Leidy, E.D. Cope, D.C. Marsh, J. Wortman, W.B. Scott, J. Tyrell, and the Sternbergs initiated an intensive, exciting, and romanticized phase of discovery of vertebrate fossils. Although the productivity of this period often is exaggerated, the quality and volume of material recovered is impressive. Hundreds of new taxa were named, including numerous fish, dinosaurs and other reptiles, and mammals. E. Douglass, B. Brown, E.C. Case, C.R. Eastman, E.S. Riggs, W.D. Matthew, H.F. Osborn, F.B. Loomis, W.J. Sinclair, W. Granger and others expanded the scope of collecting in this area throughout the early 1900s.
John J. Flynn is the editor of Mesozoic / Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches: Salt Lake City, Utah to Billings, Montana, July 19 - 27, 1989, Volume T322, published by Wiley. Malcolm Carnegie McKenna was an American paleontologist and author on the subject. |
