DAWN OF THE AGE OF DINOSAURS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

CONTENTS

  1. Table of Contents and Preface to Original Edition
  2. Heckert, A.B. - Foreword: On the 2005 "Reprinting" of the Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest
  3. Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P. - Dedication to Dr. Joseph T. Gregory

LOCALITIES

  1. Kirby, R.E. - Late Triassic vertebrate localities of the Owl Rock Member
  2. Murry, P.A. and Long, R.A. - Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic
  3. Long, R.A., Lucas, S.G., Hunt, A.P. and McCrea, R.T. - Charles Camp: collecting Late Triassic Vertebrates in the American Southwest during the 1920s and 1930s
  4. Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G. - Late Triassic vertebrate localities in New Mexico
  5. Murry, P.A. - Geology and paleontology of the Dockum Formation (Upper Triassic), West Texas and eastern New Mexico
  6. Small, B.J. - Post quarry

STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY

  1. Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P. - Revised Triassic stratigraphy in the Tucumcari basin, east-central New Mexico
  2. Dubiel, R.F. - Depositional and climatic setting of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau

PALEONTOLOGY

  1. Ash, S. - A catalog of Upper Triassic plant megafossils of the western United States through 1988
  2. Kietzke, K. - Calcareous microfossils from the Triassic of the southwestern United States
  3. Good, S.C. - Nonmarine Mollusca in the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation and related strata of the Western Interior: Systematics and distribution
  4. Murry, P.A. - Microvertebrate fossils from the Petrified Forest and Owl Rock members (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona
  5. Davidow-Henry, B. - Small metoposaurid amphibians form the Triassic of western North America and their significance
  6. Hunt, A.P. - Comments on the taxonomy of North American metoposaurs and a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the family Metoposauridae
  7. Small, B.J. - Aetosaurs from the Upper Triassic Dockum Formation, Post quarry, West Texas
  8. Ballew, K.L. - A phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria from the Late Triassic of the western United States
  9. Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G. - New genotype designations for the phytosaurs Mystriosuchus and Rutiodon with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Mystriosuchus, Clespysaurus and Rutiodon
  10. Hunt, A.P. - Cranial morphology and ecology among phytosaurs
  11. Hunt, A.P. - A new ?ornithischian dinosaur from the Bull Canyon Formation (Upper Triassic) of east-central New Mexico

FAUNAL ANALYSIS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY

  1. Parrish, M.J. - Late Triassic tetrapods of the North American Southwest
  2. Murry, P.A. - Paleoecology and vertebrate faunal relationships of the Upper Triassic Dockum and Chinle formations, southwestern United States
  3. Padian, K. - Did "thecodontians" survive the Triassic?

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