Dinosaurs & Fossils

Tracks and Tracksites

• Are those animal tracks in the sidewalk?
  from Survey Notes, May 2012
• Spectacular pterosaur track slab begins its cross-country journey (11/2013)

St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm

• The Case for Fishing Dinosaurs
  from Survey Notes, September 2007
• Squatting Dinosaur Tracks
• St. George Dinosaur Tracksite
  from Survey Notes, Sept. 2002
• St. George Dinosaur Tracksite (pdf)
  Public Information Series #78

Flaming Gorge Reservoir

• Dinosaurs Making Tracks at Flaming Gorge Reservoir
• Discovery of a New Pterosaur Tracksite at Flaming Gorge Reservoir
  from Survey Notes, Sept. 2002

Fossils

Utahraptor Megablock Fossil Project

Learn about the 9-ton megablock of Utahraptor dinosaur fossils being prepared at the UGS.

• Fossil environments in Utah (pdf)
  Public Information Series 93
• What should you do if you find a fossil? Can you keep it? Should you report it?
  from Survey Notes, September 2009
• GeoSights: Wolverine Petrified Forest, Garfield County
  from Survey Notes, September 2017
• When sharks, rays & sawfish ruled Utah’s rivers
  from Survey Notes, May 2014
• Utah’s oldest fossils are found in the Uinta Mountains
  from Survey Notes, May 2005
• The Wolverine Petrified Forest
  from Survey Notes, August 2003
• Trilobites and the Cambrian Environment of Utah
  from Survey Notes, May 1996

Ice Age Wildlife

Ice Age Animals of Utah

Ice Age presentation (ppt)

• Utah’s Pleistocene Fossils: Keys for Assessing Climate and Environmental Change
  from Survey Notes, September 2010
• Mammoth tusk discovery adds to our knowledge of life along the shores of Lake Bonneville
• Utah’s Wildlife in the Ice Age
  from Survey Notes, May 1996

Collecting

• What should you do if you find a fossil? Can you keep it? Should you report it?
• Agate, chert, jasper, and petrified wood, Wayne County
• Rock & mineral collecting sites
  Collecting articles are from the discontinued “The Rockhounder” series, written for Survey Notes
• Rock, Mineral, and Fossil Collecting Rules
• The fossil preparation lab at the Utah Geological Survey: Bringing Earth’s ancient past to life
  from Survey Notes, May 2010
• Permit Application for Paleontological Investigations,
  Excavations, and/or Collections on State Managed Lands in Utah
• Utah Friends of Paleontology (outside link)
  A statewide, non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to preserving Utah’s fossil resources through public education and volunteer support of sponsoring institutions.

Publications

• Exceptional Cambrian fossils from Utah—a window into the age of trilobites, by Richard A. Robison, Loren E. Babcock, and Val G. Gunther, 97 p., 2015 Miscellaneous Publication 15-1
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• Fossil environments in Utah, by C. McCalla, 2009 Publication Information Series 93

• St. George Dinosaur Tracksite, 2002, Public Information Series 78

• Mutituberculate mammals from the Wahweap (Campanian, Aquilan) and Kaiparowits (Campanian, Judithian) Formations within and near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, by Jeffrey G. Eaton, 66 p., 2002 Miscellaneous Publication 02-4
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• Paleontological survey of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah, by J.R. Foster, A.L. Titus, G.F. Winterfeld, M.C. Hayden, and A.H. Hamblin, 98 p., 2001 Special Studies 99
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• Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda), a revised osteology, by J.H. Madsen Jr. and S.P. Welles, 80 p., 2000 Miscellaneous Publication 00-2
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• Late Mississippian (Arnsbergian Stage E2 Chronozone) ammonoid paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Antler foreland basin, California, Nevada, and Utah, by A.L. Titus, 109 p., 2000 Bulletin 131
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• Late Quaternary paleoecology in the Bonneville basin, by D.B. Madsen, 190 p., 2000 Bulletin 130
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• Vertebrate paleontology in Utah, edited by D.D. Gillette, 553 p., 1999 Miscellaneous Publication 99-1
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• Lower Carboniferous echinoderms from northern Utah and western Wyoming, by G.D. Webster, 65 p., 1997 Bulletin 128
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• Allosaurus fragilis: a revised osteology, by J.H. Madsen, Jr., 163 p., reprint 1993 (1976) Bulletin 109
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