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Selected Paleontology Products

Ball, B.A., Cobban, W.A., Merewether, E.A., Grauch, R.I., McKinney, K.C., and Livo, K.E. 2009. Fossils, lithologies, and geophysical logs of the Mancos Shale from core hole USGS CL-1 in Montrose County, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1294, 38 p.

Blome, C., McKinney, K.C. and others. 1999. The USGS Denver Paleontological Collection: A Growing Resource for paleontological Research, GSA poster session 1999 annual meeting. Denver.

Cobban, W.A., Walaszczyk, Ireneusz, Obradovich, J.D., and McKinney, K.C. 2006. A USGS zonal table for the Upper Cretaceous middle Cenomanian-Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of the United States based on ammonites, inoceramids, and radiometric ages: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1250, 45 p.

Cobban, W.A., Sawyer, D. and McKinney, K.C. 2004. Cross Section of Upper Cretaceous Rocks (Dakota Sandstone-Point Lookout Sandstone) From Gallup to Lamy, Northern New Mexico. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report-2004-1093.

Digital Catalog of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites: collections by Pete Palmer, Rube Ross, and Mike Taylor.

Digital Catalog of the Gulfian Cretaceous ammonites: collections by J.P. Conlin.

Digital Catalog of the late Miocene-Pleistocene vertebrates: collections by Chuck Repenning.

Digital Catalog of the Triassic- Pleistocene vertebrates: collections by Ed Lewis.

Digital Catalog of Western Interior Cretaceous mollusks: collections by Bill Cobban.

Honey, J.G. and Izett, G.A. 1988. Paleontology, taphonomy, and stratigraphy of the Browns Park formation (Oligocene and Miocene) near Maybell, Moffat County, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1358.

Izett, G.A. 1974. Geologic map of the Trail Mountain quadrangle, Grand County, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1156.

Izett, G.A. and Barclay, C.S.V. 1973. Geologic map of the Kremmling quadrangle, Grand County, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1115.

Izett, G.A., Cobban, W.A., and Gill, J.R. 1971. The Pierre Shale near Kremmling, Colorado, and its correlation to the east and the west. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 684-A 18p.

Izett, G.A. 1968. Geology of the Hot Sulphur Springs quadrangle, Grand County, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 586 79p.

Kennedy, W.J. and Cobban, W.A. 2001. Campanian (late Cretaceous) ammonites from the Anacacho Limestone in central Texas. Acta Geologica Polonica, 51, 15-30, 6 pls.

Kennedy, W.J., Cobban, W.A. and Landman, N.H. 2001. Santonian ammonites from the Blossom Sand in northeast Texas. American Museum Novitates, 3332, 9pp., 5 figs.

Kennedy, W.J., Cobban, W.A. and Scott, G.R. 2000. Heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Baculites cuneatus and Baculites reesidei zones of the Pierre Shale in Colorado, U.S.A. Acta Geologica Polonica, 50, 1-20, 5 pls.

Kennedy, W.J., Cobban, W.A. and Scott, G.R. 2000. Heteromorph ammonites from the Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Baculites scotti zone in the U.S. Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica, 50, 223-241, 15 pls.

Kennedy, W. J., Cobban, W.A., Gale, A.S., Hancock, J.M., Landman, N.H. 1998. Ammonites from the Weno limestone (Albian) in northeast Texas. American Museum Novitates ; no. 3236, 46 pp., 37 figures, 4 tables.

Kennedy, W.J., Gale, A.S., Hancock, J.M., Crampton J.S. and Cobban, W.A. 1999. Ammonites and Inoceramid Bivalves from Close to the Middle-Upper Albian Boundary around Fort Worth, Texas. Journal of Palaeontology,Vol. 73, No. 6, pp. 1101-1125. Membership may be required to access full text.

Kennedy, W.J., Gale, A.S. and Hansen, T.P. 2001. The last Maastrichtian ammonites from the Brazos River section in Falls County, Texas. Cretaceous Research, 22, 163-171, 4 figs. Membership may be required to access full text.

Kennedy, W.J., Landman, N.H., Cobban, W.A. and Scott, G.R. 2000. Late Campanian (Cretaceous) heteromorph ammonites from the Western Interior of the United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 251, 88 pp., 67 figs.

Kennedy, W.J., Walaszczyk, I. and Cobban, W.A. 2000. Pueblo, Colorado, USA, Candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Middle Turonian Substage, with a revision of the Inoceramidae (Bivalvia). Acta Geologica Polonica, 50, 295-334, 12 figs, 15 pls.

Landman, N.H., Kennedy, W.J., Cobban, W.A. and Larson, N.L. 2010. Scaphites of the 'Nodosus Group' from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Interior of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 342, 242 pp., 116 figures, 10 tables.

McKinney, Kevin C. 2002. Digital Archive. Report upon the Colorado River of the West explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Geological Report with maps by John S. Newberry, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 02-25 CD-ROM.

McKinney, Kevin C. 2001. Digital Archives. Thomas M. Bown's Bighorn Basin Maps- The Suite of Forty-four Office Master Copies. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 01-306 CD-ROM.

McKinney, Kevin C., Chaney, D. S. Williamson, T.E. and Tedford, R H. 2002. Report Upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of the Expedition of 1874, by Edward D. Cope, A Digital Archive with Multimedia Annotations, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 02-270 CD-ROM.

McKinney, Kevin C., Cobban, W.A. and Phan, N.T. 2003. GIS Application of the Newly Digitized USGS-Denver Cretaceous Fossil Mollusk Collection: GSA poster session 2003 annual meeting in Seattle.

McKinney, Kevin C., Cobban, W.A. and Phan, N.T. 2004. GIS Application of the Newly Digitized USGS-Denver Cretaceous Fossil Mollusk Collection. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report-2004-1093.

McKinney, K. C., and Cobban, W.A. 2018. USGS Denver Mesozoic Catalog for 14595 fossil localities from the Rocky Mountain Region (1933-2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release.

McKinney, K.C., and Repenning, C.A., 2018. USGS Menlo Park vertebrate Cenozoic Paleontology Collection: U.S. Geological Survey data release.

McKinney, Kevin C., Tedford, R. H., Morgan, G. and Williamson, T.E. 2001. Fossil Mammals of the Middle Rio Grande--Annotated Dataset and Bibliography of New Mexico Vertebrate Paleontology. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 01-023 CD-ROM.

Merewether, E.A., and McKinney, K.C. 2015. Chronostratigraphic cross section of Cretaceous formations in western Montana, western Wyoming, eastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1087.

Repenning, C.A. 1998. North American mammalian dispersal routes; rapid evolution and dispersal constrain precise biochronology. In Advances in vertebrate paleontology and geochronology , eds. Tomida, Y., Flynn, L.J., Jacobs, L.L., National Science Museum Monographs (Japan), vol.14, pp.39-78.