Dinosaurs & Fossils
Dinosaurs
- Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah’s fossils and dinosaurs
- Visit our Blog for Utah dinosaur articles in the news
Mesozoic Era
Cretaceous Period
- Does Utah Preserve North America’s Oldest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Because of Ancient Salt Deposits?
from Survey Notes, January 2017 - UGS Paleontologists Collect Dinosaur Megablock
from Survey Notes, September 2015 - The Thumb-Spiked Iguanodontians – Dinosaurian Cows of the Early Cretaceous
from Survey Notes, January 2013 - UGS Scientist Honored in Naming of Utah’s Newest Dinosaur: Martharaptor greenriverensis
from Survey Notes, January 2013 - Utah’s Prehistoric Tanks: The Ankylosaurs
from Survey Notes, September 2011 - New Horned Dinosaurs from the Wahweap Formation (pdf)
from Survey Notes, September 2007 - Falcarius utahensis; Killer Dinos Turned Vegetarian
Utah dinosaur bones reveal missing link in evolution of diet - Dinosaur Record from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation (pdf)
from Survey Notes, January 2005 - Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Cedar Mountain Formation
- Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs, North Horn and Kaiparowits Formations
Jurassic Period
- Scientific Investigations at Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry
from Survey Notes, January 2009 - Jurassic Dinosaurs, Morrison Formation
Tracks and Tracksites
- Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah’s fossils and dinosaurs
- Are those animal tracks in the sidewalk?
- Spectacular pterosaur track slab begins its cross-country journey (11/2013)
St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
- The Case for Fishing Dinosaurs (pdf)
from Survey Notes, September 2007 - Squatting Dinosaur Tracks
- St. George Dinosaur Tracksite (pdf)
from Survey Notes, Sept. 2002 - St. George Dinosaur Tracksite (pdf)
Public Information Series #78
Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Fossils
- Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah’s fossils and dinosaurs
- Fossil environments in Utah (pdf)
- What should you do if you find a fossil? Can you keep it? Should you report it?
from Survey Notes, September 2009 - When sharks, rays & sawfish ruled Utah’s rivers
from Survey Notes, May 2014 - Utah’s oldest fossils are found in the Uinta Mountains (pdf)
from Survey Notes, May 2005 - The Wolverine Petrified Forest (pdf)
from Survey Notes, August 2003 - Trilobites and the Cambrian Environment of Utah
Ice Age Wildlife
- Ice Age presentation (ppt)
- Utah’s Pleistocene Fossils: Keys for Assessing Climate and Environmental Change (pdf)
from Survey Notes, September 2010 - Mammoth tusk discovery adds to our knowledge of life along the shores of Lake Bonneville
- Ice Age Animals of Utah
- 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
- 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.
- 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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