Dinosaurs

• Upper and lower jaw fragments from the newly discovered small dinosaur Falcarius utahensis, with a U.S. penny for scale.

  Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah's fossils and dinosaurs.
• New Horned Dinosaurs from the Wahweap Formation (pdf)
  from Survey Notes, September 2007
• Falcarius utahensis; Killer Dinos Turned Vegetarian
  Utah dinosaur bones reveal missing link in evolution of diet
• Age of Dinosaurs
  • Age of Dinosaurs (aka "The Mesozoic Era").
  • Jurassic Dinosaurs, Morrison Formation.
  • Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Cedar Mountain Formation.
  • Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs, North Horn and Kaiparowits Formations.
• Dinosaur Record from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation (pdf)
  from Survey Notes, January 2005

Tracks and Tracksites

• Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah's fossils and dinosaurs.
• St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
  • The Case for Fishing Dinosaurs (pdf)
    from Survey Notes, September 2007
  • Squatting Dinosaur Tracks
  • St. George Dinosaur Tracksite (pdf)
    from Survey Notes, Sept. 2002
  • St. George Dinosaur Tracksite (pdf)
    Public Information Series #78
• Flaming Gorge Reservoir
  • Dinosaurs Making Tracks at Flaming Gorge Reservoir
  • Discovery of a New Pterosaur Tracksite at Flaming Gorge Reservoir (pdf)
    from Survey Notes, Sept. 2002

Fossils

• Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah: where to see Utah's fossils and dinosaurs.
• Utah's oldest fossils are found in the Uinta Mountains (pdf)
  from Survey Notes, May 2005
• The Wolverine Petrified Forest (pdf)
  from Survey Notes, August 2003
• Fossil photos taken in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
  from Survey Notes, January 2001
• Trilobites and the Cambrian Environment of Utah

Ice Age Wildlife

• Ice Age presentation (ppt)
• Mammoth tusk discovery adds to our knowledge of life along the shores of Lake Bonneville
• Ice Age Animals of Utah
• Utah's Wildlife in the Ice Age
  from Survey Notes, May 1996

Geologic History

• Utah: A Geologic History - images of Utah through time, pdf
  Public Information Series #54
• Utah's Geologic History, pdf
  Public Information Series #19

Collecting

• Agate, chert, jasper, and petrified wood, Wayne County (pdf)
• Rock & mineral collecting
  Collecting articles are from the discontinued "The Rockhounder" series, written for Survey Notes
• Collecting Rules (pdf)
• Volunteer Certification Program
• Permit Application for Paleontological Investigations, Excavations, and/or Collections on State Managed Lands in Utah (pdf)

Related Publications

• Dinosaur and fossils
• Collecting guides and field guides

Related Web Sites

• Dinosaurs
• Paleontology & Radiocarbon Labs

Ground-Water & Paleontology Program

Maintains and publishes records of Utah's fossil resources, provides paleontological and archaeological recovery services to state and local governments, conducts studies of environmental change to aid resource management, evaluates the quantity and quality of Utah's ground-water resources. The GWPP also manages a paleontological training program for amateurs, provides state government and the public with detailed studies on paleontological, archaeological, and ground-water resources, and identifies paleoecologic change on public lands.