At the Top of the Grand Staircase – Book

The Grand Staircase -Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best known records of the Late Cretaceous. In the new century over 2,000 vertebrate fossil sites have been documented, leading to the identification of over a dozen different dinosaurs. Other notable discoveries from this location include an extremely diverse array of birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodilians, and other marine reptiles.

This combination of new material with new age data is literally rewriting our comprehension of the Late Cretaceous. This book is a major stepping stone toward understanding the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America.

Filled with photos, charts, diagrams, and maps, making the text easy to comprehend.