New paper on Alaska dinosaurs

["Andrew A. Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

The pre-publication PDF for this was just posted on Cretaceous Research. . .

Anthony R. Fiorillo and Judith Totman Parrish. In press. The first record of
a Cretaceous dinosaur from southwestern Alaska. Cretaceous Research.

Abstract
Cretaceous dinosaurs are recorded for the first time from southwestern
Alaska by a series of three tracks found in Aniakchak National Monument.
This trackway is in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Chignik
Formation, a cyclic sequence of marine to non-marine clastic sedimentary
rocks. The nearest coeval locality is approximately 1500 km northeast of
this site, along the Colville River in northern Alaska, which contains
abundant dinosaurs. This distance helps to document the occurrence of a
widespread Cretaceous Arctic terrestrial ecosystem that supported
significant numbers of large-bodied herbivores. 

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Andrew A. Farke, Graduate Student
Department of Anatomical Sciences
Stony Brook University
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Stony Brook, NY  11794-8081
 
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