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New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism
During much of the Late Cretaceous, a shallow, epeiric sea divided North America into eastern and western landmasses. The western landmass, known as Laramidia, although diminutive in size, witnessed a major evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs. Other than hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs), the most common dinosaurs were ceratopsids (large-bodied horned dinosaurs), currently known only from Laramidia and Asia. Remarkably, previous studies have postulated the occurrence of latitudinally arrayed dinosaur \"provinces,\" or \"biomes,\" on Laramidia. Yet this hypothesis has been challenged on multiple fronts and has remained poorly tested.
Here we describe two new, co-occurring ceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of Utah that provide the strongest support to date for the dinosaur provincialism hypothesis. Both pertain to the clade of ceratopsids known as Chasmosaurinae, dramatically increasing representation of this group from the southern portion of the Western Interior Basin of North America. Utahceratops gettyi gen. et sp. nov.-characterized by short, rounded, laterally projecting supraorbital horncores and an elongate frill with a deep median embayment-is recovered as the sister taxon to Pentaceratops sternbergii from the late Campanian of New Mexico. Kosmoceratops richardsoni gen. et sp. nov.-characterized by elongate, laterally projecting supraorbital horncores and a short, broad frill adorned with ten well developed hooks-has the most ornate skull of any known dinosaur and is closely allied to Chasmosaurus irvinensis from the late Campanian of Alberta.
Considered in unison, the phylogenetic, stratigraphic, and biogeographic evidence documents distinct, co-occurring chasmosaurine taxa north and south on the diminutive landmass of Laramidia. The famous Triceratops and all other, more nested chasmosaurines are postulated as descendants of forms previously restricted to the southern portion of Laramidia. Results further suggest the presence of latitudinally arrayed evolutionary centers of endemism within chasmosaurine ceratopsids during the late Campanian, the first documented occurrence of intracontinental endemism within dinosaurs.
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Zion & Bryce Canyon : a great destination
In this new guide, travel writer, skier, and rock climber Christine Balaz distills her love of the outdoors and of beautiful Utah to bring you the inside scoop on these stunning parks. Balaz knows well these dramatic landscapes and their austere beauty since she's spent considerable time here and, in climbing these canyons, and has seen Bryce and Zion from every angle! Count on finding choice options for outdoor adventure, the best restaurants, best places to camp, fun tours, and cool honkytonks in this unique guide to some of America's wildest places.
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Looking for Lincoln in Illinois
Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award, 2016 Although they inhabited different political, social, and cultural arenas, Abraham Lincoln and the pioneer generation of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, shared the same nineteenth-century world.Bryon C.
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\I FEAR THE CONSEQUENCES TO OUR ANIMALS\: EMIGRANTS AND THEIR LIVESTOCK ON THE OVERLAND TRAILS
The diaries, letters, and guidebooks written by the emigrants who crossed North America on the overland trails during the mid-nineteenth century reveal a new awareness of the animals that journeyed with them. Often written as advice to those who might follow them, the travelers worried about their animals in ways beyond what theologians and philosophers would have expected or anticipated. Borne out of the need to get to California, Oregon, or Utah safely, emigrants learned a new standard of care required for the animals that hauled them across the continent. Their writings add to the knowledge not only of the rigors and challenges along the overland trails but also of how the emigrants manifested a new relationship with their livestock.
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Southwest USA
Lonely Planet Southwest USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Nourish your soul as you soak up the sheer immensity of the Grand Canyon, chase the neon lights in Las Vegas, or be lured by the ski slopes, hiking trails and white-water rapids of Taos, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Southwest USA and begin your journey now.
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Book Reviews
Books reviewed in this article:
The Nationalist Question: Decolonising the Theory of Nationalism. James M. Blaut
Resource Communities: Settlement and Workforce Issues. T. B. Brealey, C. C. Neil, and P. W. Newton, eds.
The British Empire at Its Zenith. A. J. Christopher
Atlas of Disease Distribution: Analytical Approaches to Epidemiological Data. Andrew Cliff and Peter Haggett
Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues. Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J.C. Ma, and Allen G. Noble, eds.
The Urbanization of the Third World. Josef Gugler, ed.
The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846-2003. Peter Hall and Paschal Preston
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880. Thomas D. Hall
The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation. Jack D. Ives and Bruno Messerli
The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation. Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kaups
Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada. David Chuenyan Lai
Peripheralisation and Industrial Change. G. J. R. Linge, ed.
Sanpete Scenes: A Guide to Utah's Heart. Gary B. Peterson and Lowell C. Bennion
The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture. James R. Shortridge
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Edward W. Soja
Borderland. Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939. John R. Stilgoe
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Book Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: The Nationalist Question: Decolonising the Theory of Nationalism. James M. Blaut Resource Communities: Settlement and Workforce Issues. T. B. Brealey, C. C. Neil, and P. W. Newton, eds. The British Empire at Its Zenith. A. J. Christopher Atlas of Disease Distribution: Analytical Approaches to Epidemiological Data. Andrew Cliff and Peter Haggett Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues. Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J.C. Ma, and Allen G. Noble, eds. The Urbanization of the Third World. Josef Gugler, ed. The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846–2003. Peter Hall and Paschal Preston Social Change in the Southwest, 1350–1880. Thomas D. Hall The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation. Jack D. Ives and Bruno Messerli The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation. Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kaups Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada. David Chuenyan Lai Peripheralisation and Industrial Change. G. J. R. Linge, ed. Sanpete Scenes: A Guide to Utah's Heart. Gary B. Peterson and Lowell C. Bennion The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture. James R. Shortridge Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Edward W. Soja Borderland. Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939. John R. Stilgoe
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