Heckert, A.B., and Lucas, S.G., eds., 2005, Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 29. 168 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARIZONA VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY CALEB LEWIS1, ANDREW B. HECKERT2 and SPENCER G. LUCAS1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-1375; 2Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, ASU Box 32067, Boone, NC 28608-2067 Abstract—We provide a bibliography of Arizona vertebrate paleontology that consits of approximately 625 references covering vertebrate occurrences ranging in age from Devonian to Holocene. Not surpris- ingly, references to Triassic and Neogene vertebrates are the most numerous, reflecting the particular strengths of the Arizona record. We break the bibliography down into various taxic groups and provide a complete, unified bibliography at the end of the paper. Keyworks: Arizona, bibliography, fossil, vertebrate, paleontology INTRODUCTION tracks from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of the state. The Lower Permian Coconino and Lower Jurassic Navajo sandstones in Our aim in presenting a bibliography of Arizona vertebrate northern Arizona are especially known for their vertebrate and paleontology is to provide a valuable research tool for all those invertebrate trackways. conducting vertebrate paleontology research in Arizona. This Abstracts were generally omitted from the bibliography bibliography will also be made available as individual, download - partly to save space, but also due to the difficulty in tracking able Endnote® libraries on the New Mexico Museum of Natural down all published abstracts, many of which exist only in the History and Science paleontological resources website (www. “gray literature” and are duplicated by subsequent full-length nmfossils.org). publications. The occasional exception to this rule is an abstract The bibliography is separated into broad taxonomic groups. that serves as the only record of a particular taxonomic group or These are Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, primitive amphibians, age. This bibliography also was designed to be a research tool and Lissamphibia, anapsids, Lepidosauromorpha, non-dinosaurian not a historical record of all publications on vertebrate paleontol- archosaurs, dinosaurs, Aves, non-mammalia synapsids, and Mam- ogy from the state, so we focused on complete articles. Doubtless malia. There is also a separate category for trace fossils. this bibliography is incomplete, and some may take issue with As used here, “primitive amphibians” are all non-lis - how we indexed some of the faunal papers, but we believe that samphibian, non-amniote tetrapods known from the state, and utilizing this bibliography will allow any new researcher, be they consists primarily of temnospondyls. Anapsids includes turtles, professional or avocational, to enter the literature and find all procolophonids, and some enigmatic Triassic reptiles of unknown significant references to a particular taxonomic group. We do not - affinities. “Lepidosauromorpha” consists of all non-archosauro provide a separate index of article by time period, in large part morph diapsids, and thus includes marine reptiles in addition to because that would duplicate the many comprehensive papers lepidosaurs, and again contains some taxa of unknown affinities. found elsewhere in the volume. Non-dinosaurian archosaurs includes basal archosauromorphs, Resources used for the assembly of this bibliography were pterosaurs, and crurotarsans, including crocodilians. The bulk Georef, Bioone, Google Scholar, New Mexico Museum of Natural of this record reflects study of “thecodont”-grade archosauror - History bulletins and the references therein, and references from mophs—very few papers have been published on Arizona fossil many individual papers. Clearly, this bibliography cannot be con- crocodilians. Dinosaurs, given their popular and academic inter- sidered complete, but it should provide an extensive entrée into the est, and the importance of Arizona’s role in the early evolution of growing literature on the vertebrate paleontology of Arizona. dinosaurs, were given their own category separate from the rest of the archosaurs. Aves covers all bird fossils from the state, and the synapsids are split into non-mammalian synapsids and mam- BIBLIOGRAPHY BY TAXONOMIC GROUPS mals to reflect Arizona’s relatively sparse, but important record of “mammal-like reptiles” and larger, exceptionally important CHONDRICHTHYES mammalian faunas. Trace fossils include not just references related Brew, D. C., 1970, The Naco Formation (Pennsylvanian) in central Arizona: to footprints, but also those covering coprolites, fossilized dung, Plateau, v. 42, p. 126-138. packrat middens, and skin impressions. Brew, D. C., and Beus, S. S., 1976, A Middle Pennsylvanian fauna from Some generalities about Arizona vertebrate paleontologi- the Naco Formation near Kohl Ranch Central Arizona: Journal of cal research can be made based on the bibliography. The greatest Paleontology, v. 50, p. 888-906. amount of research and publications dealing with Arizona ver- Cappetta, H., 1987, Chondrichthyes II: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Esa- tebrate paleontology are on non-dinosaurian archosauromorphs. mobranchii, in Schultze, H.-P., ed., Handbook of Paleoichthyology: This is due to the great outcrop area of Triassic strata in Arizona, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer Verlag, p. 193. and subsequent large amount of preserved Triassic vertebrate Colbert, E. H., 1972, Vertebrates from the Chinle Formation, in Breed, C. S., fossils from the state. The next most researched group is the dino- and Breed, W. J., eds., Investigations in the Triassic Chinle Formation: saurs, dominated by Late Triassic and Early Jurassic forms from Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin: Flagstaff, Museum of Northern the Chinle Group and Kayenta Formation as well as scattered Arizona Press, p. 96-103. Cretaceous records in the southern portion of the state. Neogene Curtis, K. M., 1989, A taxonomic analysis of a microvertebrate fauna from faunas, particularly of mammals but also of lissamphibians and the Kayenta Formation (Early Jurassic) of Arizona and its comparison lepidosaurs, reflect the strength of the late Neogene and Quater- to an Upper Triassic microvertebrate fauna from the Chinle Formation. nary record of the state. Also notable are the amount of vertebrate [M.A. thesis]: University of California. Curtis, K., and Padian, K., 1999, An Early Jurassic microvertebrate fauna 169 from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona; microfaunal Kaye, F. T., and Padian, K., 1994, Microvertebrates from the Placerias change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: PaleoBios, v. 19, no. 2, Quarry; a window on Late Triassic vertebrate diversity in the American p. 19-37. Southwest, in Fraser, N. C. S., Hans-Dieter, ed., In the shadow of the David, L. R., 1944, A Permian Shark from the Grand Canyon: Journal of dinosaurs; early Mesozoic tetrapods: Cambridge, United Kingdom, Paleontology, v. 18, no. 1, p. 90-93. Cambridge University Press, p. 171-196. Elder, W. P., 1987, The paleoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Creta- Kirby, R. E., 1989, Faunal content and age of the Owl Rock Member (Chinle ceous) stage boundary at Black Mesa, Arizona: Palaios, v. 2, p. 24-40. Formation) in Ward Terrace are of norhtern Arizona, in Dawn of the Elliott, D. K., Irmis, R. B., Hansen, M. C., and Olson, T. 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