Re: Paleo of National Parks Volume

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

At 20:59 2000-02-28 -0500, Jerry D. Harris wrote:

>Hi All -
>
>        A new publication has been released:
>
>Santucci, V.L. and McClelland, L. 1999. National Park Service
>Paleontological Research, Volume 4. Geologic Resources Division Technical
>Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-99/03, U.S. Department of the Interior, 126 pp.
>
>Interestingly, the majority of papers in this volume are devoted to
>vertebrate paleo; many would be of interest to the list members:
>
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>
>An aetosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group,
>Canyonlands National Park, Utah (A.B. Heckert, S.G. Lucas, and J.D. Harris)
>
>Non-marine trace fossils from the Morrison Formation (Jurassic) of
>Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado (A.R. Fiorillo)
>
>Fossil birds of Florissant, Colorado: with a description of a new genus and
>species of cuckoo (R.M. Chandler)
>
>Probable reptile nests from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified
>Forest National Park, Arizona (S.T. Hasiotis and A.J. Martin)
>
>New discoveries of Late Triassic dinosaurs from Petrified Forest National
>Park, Arizona (A.P. Hunt and J. Wright)
>
>Continental ichnofossils from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation,
>Western Interior, USA: what organism behavior tells us about Jurassic
>environments and climates (S.T. Hasiotis)
>
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>
>Copies of the report are available (for free, I believe!) from the editors:
>
>Geological Resources Division
>12795 West Alameda Parkway
>Academy Place, Room 480
>Lakewood, CO  80227
>Refer to: National Park Service D-1341 (October 1999)
>
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This Volume is supposed to be "Coming Soon" on the NPS geology site:

 http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/geology/paleo/index.htm.

Volumes 1-3 are already there and contain a number of papers well worth
reading


Tommy Tyrberg