UTAHS DINOSAUR RECORD

DAKOTA FORMATION

Ruby Ranch
Member
Conglomerate

Barremian

Tithonian

150

Kimmeridgian

175

JURASSIC

Oxfordian
Callovian
Bathonian
Bajocian
Aalenian

Yellow Cat
Member

central
Utah

eastern
Utah

MORRISON FORMATION

hiatus

Pliensbachian

new
pachycephalosaurs

Zuniceratops

Nothronychus

FIRST
DINOSAUR

TRIASSIC

225

tyrannosaurid
teeth

ornithomimid
Eolambia

troodontid teeth

neoceratopsian teeth

Tennontosaurus

Animantarx

Cedarpelta
Abydosaurus
pleurocoelid
brachiosaurids

Deinonychus

Acrocanthosaurus

Nedcolbertia

Planicoxa &
Dakotadon ?

new camarasaurid

new titanosaurid

Gastonia

new
hypsilophodontid

Utahraptor

new

troodontid

new large
polacanthine
ankylosaur

Falcarius

new
iguanodont

new
sauropods

Dryosaurus

Allosaurus

Ceratosaurus

CHINLE FORMATION / GROUP

Brachiosaurus

Camarasaurus

Haplocanthosaurus

Diplodocus

Apatosaurus

Sauropod (Parabrontosaurophus tracks)

Many horizons
with dinosaur
tracks
Megapnosaurus
( Grallator tracks)
Seitaad &
( Otozoum tracks)

First North
American dinosaurs

hiatus
Non-dinosaurian tracks

MOENKOPI FORMATION

Camptosaurus

Torvosaurus

Dilophosaurus (Eubrontes tracks)

MOENAVE FORMATION - WINGATE SANDSTONE

Ladnian

PERMIAN

Cedarosaurus

new carnosaurid

Megalosaur (Megalosaurophus tracks)

KAYENTA FORMATION

Anisian

250

tiny pleurocoelid
brachiosaurid teeth

nodosaurids

Stegosaurus

Carnian

Olenekian
Induan

nodosaurid
teeth

Pachycephalosaurid
teeth

tiny
ornithopod

Megapnosaurus

Norian

nodosaurids

advanced
hadrosauromorphs

Marshosaurus &
Stokesosaurus

ENTRADA SANDSTONE
CARMEL FORMATION
PAGE SANDSTONE

Edmontonia
new tyrannosaurid

hadrosaurine

Widely-known
Jurassic dinosaur faunas

CURTIS - SUMMERVILLE FORMATION

NAVAJO SANDSTONE

Hettangian
Rhaetian

Isolation of North
America resulting
in local extinctions
and increased
endemism
Dinosaurs
with European
affinities

Hagryphus

Parasaurolophus

Diabloceratops

New lowest
Cretaceous
faunal level

Toarcian

Sinemurian

200

Poison Strip Sandstone

major time gaps

in stratigraphic
record in white

Neocomian

Gryposaurus

new tyrannosaurids

First ceratopsomorphs
Local extinction
of sauropods
Asian immigration
induced extinction
and origin of North
American Late
Cretaceous dinosaur
fauna

Mussentuchit Member

Buckhorn

Aptian

new chasmosaurines

San Rafael Swell - Arches National Park

Ferron Sandstone - Smoky Hollow Member

TROPIC SHALE. - Tununk Member MANCOS SHALE

Albian

First centrosaurines
& hadrosaurids

Ornithomimus

Diverse tooth fauna

Blue Gate Member MANCOS SHALE

Cenomanian

Highest diversity North

America ceratopsid &
hadrosaurid fauna

ankylosaurid teeth

Grand Sraircase - Escalante

National Monument

Upper STRAIGHT CLIFFS FORMATION

CEDAR MOUNTAIN
FORMATION

CRETACEOUS

125

Upper

MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO

WAHWEAP FORMATION - MASUK FORMATION

100

long-horned
centrosaurines

hiatus

Dilophosaurus ?

Coelophysis

Southern Utah - St. George

Dinosaur Discovery Site

KAIPAROWITS FORMATION

Campanian
Santonian
Coniacian
Turonian

Torosaurus
Alamosaurus

Tyrannosaurus

NORTH HORN FORMATION

Maastrichtian

DINOSAUR
EXTINCTION 75

Southern Tyrannosaurus
& Alamosaurus fauna

ORIGIN OF
FLOWERS

65

UTAHS MESOZOIC
ROCK RECORD

Dinosaur National Monument

Cleveland Lloyd Quarry

GEOLOGIC
TIME SCALE