Bulletin no. 8
Dr. Robert D. McCord and Debra Boaz, eds.
Bulletin no. 8 was produced following the 2001 combined meeting of the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists (WAVP) and the Southwest Paleontological Society (SPS) hosted by the Mesa Southwest Museum. The scope of papers and abstracts in this volume reflects the breadth of paleontological research undertaken in the western United States. 143 pages.
Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists with Mesa Southwest Museum and Southwest Paleontological Society: First Meeting of the New Millenium Proceedings volume
Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin No. 8
Table of Contents
In Search of Clues: Solving the Mystery of a 375 Million Year Old Mass‐Kill
Heidemarie G. Johnson
An Update on New Reptile Material from the Holbrook Member, Upper Moenkopi Formation, Northern Arizona
Sterling Nesbitt
Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Adamanian: Latest Carnian) Vertebrate Fossil Assemblages in the Vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona
Andrew B. Heckert, and Spencer G. Lucas
A Germanic‐Aspect Phytosaur from the Upper Triassic Sonsela Sandstone (Chinle Group: Petrified Forest Formation), Petrified Forest, Arizona
Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas and Andrew B. Heckert
An Enigmatic Aetosaur Specimen from the Upper Triassic Dockum Formation of Texas
William G. Parker
New Specimens of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Northern Arizona
Robert Gay
Protosuchid Crocodylomorphs from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of North‐Central Arizona
L. F. Rinehard, A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, G. Bryant, and R. Cushman
The Demise of Dystylosaurus edwini and a Revision of Supersaurus vivianae
Brian Curtice and Ken Stadtman
The Pectoral Girdle of the Sauropod Dinosaur Apatosaurus
Philip R. Platt
The Relative Abundance of the Sauropoda (Dinosauria, Saurischia) of the Morrison Formation and Implications for late Jurassic Paleoecology of North America
John R. Foster
A Preliminary Report of New Fossils from the Schellenberger Canyon Formation (Upper Lower Cretaceous) of Southern Arizona, USA
Gregory P. Cranwell
Age and Correlation of Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates from Southeastern Arizona
Spencer G. Lucas and Andrew B. Heckert
Vertebrate Localities and Assemblages of the Bisbee Group of Southern Arizona
John‐Paul Hodnett
Preliminary Statistical Characterization of a Zuniceratops Bone Bed from the Middle Cretaceous (Turonian) Moreno Hill Formation
Douglas G. Wolfe, Steve Beekman, Dan Mcguiness and Thomas Robira
Ongoing Research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, Southeastern Arizona
Robert Mccord, Gavin Mccullough, Robert Scarborough, and B. J. Tegowski
Dinosaur Nesting Site in the Maastrichtian North Horn Formation, Central Utah
Rose Difley
New Records of Plesiosauria from the Cretaceous of Southern Utah
L. Barry Albright, David D. Gillette, Alan L. Titus and Merle H. Graffam
Investigating the Correlation of Stratigraphy and Fossil Taxa in the Fort Crittenden Fauna using GIS
Erin Schirtzinger
“Aublysodon” Teeth from the El Gallo Fm. (Late Campanian) of Baja California: The Southernmost Record of Tyrannosaurid Theropods
Tracy L. Ford and D. J. Chure
Patterns of Mammalian Evolution across the Cretaceous‐Tertiary Boundary
William A. Clemens
The Earliest Known Echolocating Toothed Whales (Mammalia: Odontceti): Preliminary Observations of Fossils from Washington State.
Lawrence G. Barnes, James L. Goedert and Hitoshi Furusawa
Naticid Valve Preference and Species Selectivity on Plio‐Pleistocene Mollusks
Kathleen Mcfadden, Jeffrey G. Agnew and Carol M. Tang
A Robust Wolverine (Plesiogulo?) from Northeastern Utah
Larry D. Agenbroad and Chauncie Todd
Recent Discoveries at the 111 Ranch Fossil Locality, Safford, AZ
Andria L. Skaff
New Fossil Records from the Blancan 111 Ranch Beds, Graham County, Arizona: Results of Cooperative Efforts by a Federal Agency, Public and Private Museums, and the Amateur Community
Robert Mccord, Lawrence Thrasher, Richard White, B.J. Tegowski, Andria Skaff, Gavin McCullough, and Erin Schirtzinger.
Bison and Late Pleistocene Megafauna from the Mojave Desert
Eric Scott and Shelley M. Cox
Equine Navicular Syndrome: A Historical Perspective on a Modern Problem
Mary E. T. Flint, Lennart C. Ostblom and Gregory H. McDonald
Paleopathology of a Specimen of the Latest Miocene “Pseudo‐Walrus”, Gomphotaria pugnax from Coastal Southern California.
Lawrence G. Barnes, Howell W. Thomas and Rodney E. Raschke
The Importance of Landfills on Paleontology and the Need for Expediting the Removal of Fossils
Jacques Grabe