35 Laramidia: Biota, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous of Western North America I

Tuesday, 20 May 2025
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Cascade E

Participants

• Chair Ethan Warner-Cowgill
• Chair Joseph Sertich
• Chair Brent H. Breithaupt

Presentations

• 10:20 AM
  TAPHONOMIC, STRATIGRAPHIC, AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HADROSAURIDS FROM THE WAHWEAP FORMATION (EARLY TO MIDDLE CAMPANIAN): INSIGHTS INTO THEIR EARLY EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA
  Madison Syrett Watkins, Geosciences Department, Cedar City, UT and Alan Titus, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Kanab, UT and Katja Knoll, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Kanab, UT and Bryce Cassiano, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO and Joseph Sertich, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Grant T. Shimer, Geosciences Department, Cedar City, UT and Arianna Harrington, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
  409340 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:35 AM
  THE TAPHONOMY AND FAUNA OF THE EARLIEST LATE CRETACEOUS (CENOMANIAN) ROBISON BONEBED, WAYAN FORMATION, EASTERN IDAHO
  L. J. Krumenacker, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and L. J. Krumenacker, College of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID and Robert Gay, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Brooks Britt, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
  409955 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  STRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF UPPER CRETACEOUS STRATA IN CENTRAL WYOMING: IMPLICATIONS FOR CENTRAL LARAMIDIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY
  Zachary Tenney, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Joshua Slattery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Keith Minor, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Kent Sundell, Casper College, Casper, WY
  410072 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:05 AM
  VERTEBRATE BODY AND TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) NESLEN FORMATION, UTAH, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY
  Joshua Lively, Utah State University Eastern, Price, UT and Marcello Toscanini, Western Slope Paleontological Services, Grand Junction, CO
  410324 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  NEW MONSTERSAUR SPECIMENS FROM THE KAIPAROWITS FORMATION OF UTAH REVEAL UNEXPECTED RICHNESS OF LARGE-BODIED LIZARDS IN LATE CRETACEOUS NORTH AMERICA
  Charles Woolley, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and Charles Woolley, Univeristy of Southern California Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA and Joseph Sertich, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Keegan M. Melstrom, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK and Keegan M. Melstrom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and Randall Irmis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Randall Irmis, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Nathan D. Smith, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
  409610 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:35 AM
  CLIMATE GRADIENTS AND FILTER CORRIDORS: FREQUENT ASIA-LARAMIDIA BIOTIC INTERCHANGE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF LARAMIDIA’S DINOSAUR “PROVINCIALITY”
  Joseph Sertich, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Joseph Sertich, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
  410074 (Theme Sessions)