Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin Area, Wyoming and Montana. [First edition].

Ostrom, John H.

Verlag: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1970

Beschreibung

New Haven, octavo, 234 p., 34 photographic plates, 7 folding geologic sections, map and columnar sections plate in rear pocket, and text figures. ***CONTENT: John Ostrom (1928-2005) was a noteworthy vertebrate paleontologist at Yale, celebrated for his work on hadrosaurs, Archaeopteryx and the origin of flight, and, particularly for his 1964 discovery and later descriptions of Deinonychus, the 'terrible claw' predatory dinosaur from the Cloverly Formation. The nonmarine strata of the Cloverly Formation and contiguous Morrison Formation have long been noted for their abundance of fossil vertebrate remains. Chapters within document various stratigraphic sections, but most of the volume is devoted to systematic paleontology and anatomical descriptions of the vertebrate fossils: fishes, turtles, crocodiles, and especially saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs. Theropods include Deinonychus, Microvenator, and others, but the most abundant remains were those of a titanosaurid sauropod, a new genus and species of iguanodontid ornithopod (Tenontosaurus tilletti), and a new genus and species of ankylosaur (Sauropelta edwardsi). Detailed locality information is provided, as well as 24 locality maps. The informative plates show photographs of strata and localities, and dinosaur osteology. ***CONDITION: The volume is fully complete and Fine in the original stiff wraps. The binding is solid and the text pages and illustrations are pristine: fresh, clean and bright. No evidence of previous ownership, but this report was given to me by Prof. Ostrom himself. International shipping will be extra, but only at my cost. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers OG5456

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Stratigraphy and paleontology of the ...

Verlag: Peabody Museum of Natural History

Erscheinungsdatum: 1970

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition