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Utahceratops gettyi. Since 2000, numerous dinosaur fossils over 75 million years old have been found at Grand Staircase–Escalante. In 2002, a volunteer at the Monument discovered a 75-million-year-old dinosaur near the Arizona border.
Dinosaurs of Kaiparowits Formation. The Kaiparowits Formation is a muddy bed that was deposited between about 77.3 to 72.8 million years ago, [2] [3] in the area where the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument of Utah is today. It is extremely fossil rich, with thousands of plants and animal fossils being preserved in amongst its ...
The Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is a geological formation in southern Utah and northern Arizona, around the Lake Powell region, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [1]
The area where dinosaurs lived included lakes, floodplains, and east-flowing rivers. The Wahweap Formation is part of the Grand Staircase region, an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. The presence of rapid sedimentation and other ...
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Map of where Kosmoceratops specimens (★) have been found within the Kaiparowits Formation (dark green). Since 2000, the Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) and the Bureau of Land Management have been conducting paleontological surveys of the Kaiparowits Formation at the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah.
Map of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. Kaiparowits Formation is in dark green.. An almost complete skeleton of an ankylosaurid was excavated during the 2008, 2009, and 2010 field seasons from the Horse Mountain Gryposaur (HMG) Quarry in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah. [1]
Utah is appealing a federal judge's decision to toss out the state's latest case over the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.