National park service paleontological research

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Introduction = ⅶ
• Papers
• Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
• The Micene Carnivore Dens of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska : Oldest Known Denning Behabior of Large Mammalian Carnivores / Robert M. Hunt, Jr. = 3
• Alaska Region National Parks
• A Preliminary Survey of Paleontological Resources from the Alaska Region National Parks / Vincent L. Santucci ; William P. Wall ; Alfred Mead = 8
• Badlands National Park
• The Big Pig Dig of 1993 : Discovery, Logistics, and Excavation of Early Oligocene Mammals in Badlands National Park / Scott E. Foss = 11
• A Biomechanical Analysis of Mastication in the Fossil Rodent Ischyromys and its Bearing on the Origin of Sciuromorphs / William P. Wall ; Sherri J. Hayes = 14
• A Biomechanical Analysis of Locomotion in the Oligocene Rhinocerotoid, Hyracodon / William P. Wall ; Walker Hickerson = 19
• Comparison of Feeding Mechanics in Oligocene Agriochoeridae and Merycoidodontidae from Badlands National Park / William P. Wall ; Michael J. Shikany = 27
• Big Bend National Park
• Middle Turonia (Cretaceous) Mosasauroids from Big Bend National Park, Texas / Gorden L. Bell = 34
• The Paleocene／Eocene Transition on Tronillo Flat in Bend National Park, Texas / Judith A. Schiebout = 40
• Early Paleocene (Puercan) Vertebrates of the Dogie Locality, Bend National Park, Texas / Barbara Standhardt = 46
• Canyonlands National Park
• Crayfish Fossils and Burrows from the Upper Triassic Chinle formation, Canyonlands National Park, Utah / Stephen T. Hasiotis = 49
• The Triassic Sinbad Formation and Correlation of the Moenkopi Group, Canyonlands National Park, Utah / Spencer G. Lucas = 54
• Dinosaur Footprint from the Upper Triassic Rock Point formation of the Chinle Group, Canyonlands National Park / Spencer G. Lucas ; Adrian P. Hunt ; Martin G. Lockley = 58
• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
• New Tacksites from the Moenkopi Formation (Lower-Middle Triassic), Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah / R.J. Schultz ; Martin G. Lockley ; Adrian P. Hunt = 60
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Climbing up Sand Dunes in the Permian : New Tracksites from Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona / Vincen L. Santucci ; William P. Wall = 64
• John Day Fossil Beds national Monument
• Geology of the Late-Eocene Clarno Unit, John Day Fossil Beds national Monumen, Central oregon / Erick A. Bestland ; Gregory J. retallack ; Ted J. Fremd = 66
• Resolving Blurred Faunas : Biostratigraphy in John Day Fossil Beds national Monumen / T.J. Fremd ; Xiaoming Wang = 73
• Mesa Verde National Park
• A New Principal Reference Section for the Mancos Shale (Late Cretaceous) at Mesa Verde National Park / James I. Kirkland ; R. Mark Leckie ; William P. Elder = 77
• Petrified Forest National Park
• Continental Trace Fossils, Petrified Forest National Park : Tools for Paleohydrologic and Paleoecosystem Reconstructions / Stepen T. Hasiotis ; Russell F. Dubiel = 82
• Two Late Triassic Vertebrate Faunas at Petrified Forest National Park / Adrian P. Hunt ; Spencer G. Lucas = 89
• A Simplified Key to Identifying Isolated Fossil Teeth from Late Triassic Rocks in Petrified Forest National Park / Adrian P. Hunt ; Spencer G. Lucas ; Vincent L. Santucci = 94
• Late Triassic Vertebrate Taphonomy at Petrified Forest National Park / Adrian P. Hunt ; Vincent L. Santucci ; Andrew J. Newell = 97
• Revised Upper Triassic Stratigraphy, Petrified Forest National Park / Spencer G. Lucas = 102
• Anatomically Preserved Plant Reproductive Structures from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona / Kathleen B. Pigg ; William C. Davis ; Sidney Ash = 106
• Lat Triassic Vertebrate Reacks From Petrified Forest National Park / Vincent L. Santucci ; Adrian P. Hunt ; Martin G. Lockley = 109
• Yellowstone National Park
• Systematic and Ecologic Significance of Fossil Hardwoods : Examples from Big Bend national Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Florrissant Fossil Beds National Monument / Elisabeth A. Wheeler = 113
• Afterword = 118