About this site and the author
This site
is
meant to be a reference to help provide information on the identity,
biostratigraphy and location of fossil cephalopods found in the state
of Utah. All fossils shown on this site were collected, or
photographed in the field, by the author. They were all found on
public land, administered by either the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) or the United States Forest Service (USFS). Or land formerly
administered
by the BLM that is now property of the State of Utah.
Fossils shown on this site are NOT for sale or trade. I am not against the selling and trading of fossils, it's just that I choose not to participate, and abide the law. For rules pertaining to fossil collecting in Utah, see collecting rules at this UGS site.
There is no copyright on any of the pages or photographs, except for logos, photographs, or names, owned by other sites. It would be nice however, if you use some of my photographs, to mention where they come from, and link back to this site.
Fossils shown on this site are NOT for sale or trade. I am not against the selling and trading of fossils, it's just that I choose not to participate, and abide the law. For rules pertaining to fossil collecting in Utah, see collecting rules at this UGS site.
There is no copyright on any of the pages or photographs, except for logos, photographs, or names, owned by other sites. It would be nice however, if you use some of my photographs, to mention where they come from, and link back to this site.
This site
is owned
and maintained by Kevin Bylund, shown below in the desert of
western
Utah collecting fossil cephalopods. I am an amateur
paleontologist with
an interest in cephalopods and cephalopod biostratigraphy, and
sometimes an avocational paleontologist helping local universities and
surveys in
some of their dinosaur quarries. A member of the Paleontological Society, the Palaeontological Association,
and
the Utah Friends of Paleontology.
Papers:
Arnaud Brayard, Alexander Nützel, Daniel A. Stephen, Kevin G. Bylund, Jim Jenks, and Hugo Bucher, 2010, Gastropod evidence against the Early Triassic Lilliput effect, Geology , v. 38, no. 2, p. 147-150. See the story on Science Daily
Daniel A. Stephen, Kevin G. Bylund, Paul J. Bybee and Wesley J. Ream, 2010, Ammonoid Beds in the Lower Triassic Thaynes Formation of western Utah, USA, in: Cephalopods – Present and Past, edited by K. Tanabe, Y. Shigeta and T. Sasaki & H. Hirano. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, p. 243-252
Pisera, Andrzej, Rigby, J. Keith and Bylund, Kevin, 1996, Lower Triassic Hexactinellid Sponges from the Confusion Range, Western Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, vol. 27, pt 2
Pictures of ammonoids I have collected have been published in:
Hintze, L. F., and Davis, F. D., 2003, Geology of Millard County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 133
Hintze, L. F., 2005, Utah's Spectacular Geology: How It Came to Be: BYU Print Services
Colin Dunlop and Nancy King, , 2008, Cephalopods: Octopuses and Cuttlefish for the Home Aquarium, TFH Publications
Abstracts:
BYLUND, Kevin G., STEPHEN, Daniel A., BRAYARD, Arnaud, BUCHER, Hugo, JENKS, Jim, and McSHINSKY, RaNae Dawn, 2009: AMMONOIDS OF THE LOWER TRIASSIC THAYNES GROUP IN THE PAHVANT RANGE, UTAH: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 6, Rocky Mountain Section (61st Annual) Meeting (11–13 May 2009)
Dan Stephen, Kevin Bylund, Paul Bybee and Wes Ream, 2008, LOWER TRIASSIC AMMONOID BEDS IN THE CONFUSION RANGE OF WESTERN UTAH: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 1, Cordilleran Section (104th Annual) and Rocky Mountain Section (60th Annual) Joint Meeting (19–21 March 2008), pg. 59
(be sure to download a copy (4.8M pdf) of the presentation I gave "presentation handout"
Dan Stephen, Kevin Bylund, Paul Bybee and Wes Ream, 2007, AMMONOID MASS MORTALITY BEDS IN THE LOWER TRIASSIC THAYNES FORMATION OF WESTERN UTAH, USA: Seventh International Symposium Cephalopods – Present and Past, 2007, Sapporo, Japan. Abstracts of Oral Presentations, pg. 33
Acknowledgements:
Dr. Morris Petersen and Jared Morrow
at a site for Early Mississippian Ammonoids
Duane, my brother, in the southern House Range
2004
Many of the cephalopods pictured on this site were found by him
Dr. Dan Stephen at an outcrop of the Triassic Thaynes Formation
The Anasibirites Beds
2007
Dan has been instrumental in getting the study of the Anasibirites Beds on paper.
Dr's Dieter Korn and Alan Titus
at Granite Mountain collecting Mississippian ammonoids
2007
I learned a great deal from these two during the 4 days spent collecting in western Utah and eastern Nevada, and Alan has helped considerably with the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Mississippian ammonoids.
Dawn McShinsky has helped measure sections and collect ammonoids
2008
Dr. Hugo Bucher, Dr. Arnaud Brayard, and Jim Jenks
Together we are working on the Early Triassic Ammonoids of Western and Central Utah.
2008
Jim, Jean Guex, Viorel Atudorei
Working on some Spathian Ammonoids in the Confusion Range
2009
This site was started in December 1999, and first published on the world wide web as Old Calamari with Xoom.com in February 2000. Later Xoom.com changed to NBCI.com, after a few years they stopped offering free web space so I moved the site to Topcities.com, only to have them shut down. On October 2, 2003, I registered the domain ammonoid.com, where the site is now.
Papers:
Arnaud Brayard, Alexander Nützel, Daniel A. Stephen, Kevin G. Bylund, Jim Jenks, and Hugo Bucher, 2010, Gastropod evidence against the Early Triassic Lilliput effect, Geology , v. 38, no. 2, p. 147-150. See the story on Science Daily
Daniel A. Stephen, Kevin G. Bylund, Paul J. Bybee and Wesley J. Ream, 2010, Ammonoid Beds in the Lower Triassic Thaynes Formation of western Utah, USA, in: Cephalopods – Present and Past, edited by K. Tanabe, Y. Shigeta and T. Sasaki & H. Hirano. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, p. 243-252
Pisera, Andrzej, Rigby, J. Keith and Bylund, Kevin, 1996, Lower Triassic Hexactinellid Sponges from the Confusion Range, Western Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, vol. 27, pt 2
Pictures of ammonoids I have collected have been published in:
Hintze, L. F., and Davis, F. D., 2003, Geology of Millard County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 133
Hintze, L. F., 2005, Utah's Spectacular Geology: How It Came to Be: BYU Print Services
Colin Dunlop and Nancy King, , 2008, Cephalopods: Octopuses and Cuttlefish for the Home Aquarium, TFH Publications
Abstracts:
Daniel A. Stephen, Kevin G. Bylund, Arnaud Brayard, and Hugo Bucher, 2009: LOWER TRIASSIC AMMONOID BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN UTAH, 9th North American Paleontological Convention, June 21-26, 2009, Cincinatti, Ohio.
STEPHEN, Daniel A., MENLOVE, Lara, GOUDEMAND, Nicolas, BYLUND, Kevin G., BRAYARD, Arnaud, McSHINSKY, RaNae Dawn, BUCHER, Hugo, and JENKS, Jim, 2009: EARLY TRIASSIC CONODONTS IN THE PAHVANT RANGE OF CENTRAL UTAH: Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 6 Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section (61st Annual) Meeting (11–13 May 2009)BYLUND, Kevin G., STEPHEN, Daniel A., BRAYARD, Arnaud, BUCHER, Hugo, JENKS, Jim, and McSHINSKY, RaNae Dawn, 2009: AMMONOIDS OF THE LOWER TRIASSIC THAYNES GROUP IN THE PAHVANT RANGE, UTAH: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 6, Rocky Mountain Section (61st Annual) Meeting (11–13 May 2009)
Dan Stephen, Kevin Bylund, Paul Bybee and Wes Ream, 2008, LOWER TRIASSIC AMMONOID BEDS IN THE CONFUSION RANGE OF WESTERN UTAH: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 1, Cordilleran Section (104th Annual) and Rocky Mountain Section (60th Annual) Joint Meeting (19–21 March 2008), pg. 59
(be sure to download a copy (4.8M pdf) of the presentation I gave "presentation handout"
Dan Stephen, Kevin Bylund, Paul Bybee and Wes Ream, 2007, AMMONOID MASS MORTALITY BEDS IN THE LOWER TRIASSIC THAYNES FORMATION OF WESTERN UTAH, USA: Seventh International Symposium Cephalopods – Present and Past, 2007, Sapporo, Japan. Abstracts of Oral Presentations, pg. 33
Acknowledgements:
Dr.
Lehi
Hintze
leading
a field
trip into the Ibex Area of Utah's West Desert
(Site of Jack Watson's Ibex ranch and P.O. in background)
2004
Dr. Hintze has helped with many fossil localities in Western Utah, particularly the Ordovician sections
(Site of Jack Watson's Ibex ranch and P.O. in background)
2004
Dr. Hintze has helped with many fossil localities in Western Utah, particularly the Ordovician sections
Dr. Morris Petersen and Jared Morrow
at a site for Early Mississippian Ammonoids
2004
Dr.
Petersen
showed
me
where the
Deseret Limestone ammonoids are found.
Duane, my brother, in the southern House Range
2004
Many of the cephalopods pictured on this site were found by him
Dr. Dan Stephen at an outcrop of the Triassic Thaynes Formation
The Anasibirites Beds
2007
Dan has been instrumental in getting the study of the Anasibirites Beds on paper.
Dr's Dieter Korn and Alan Titus
at Granite Mountain collecting Mississippian ammonoids
2007
I learned a great deal from these two during the 4 days spent collecting in western Utah and eastern Nevada, and Alan has helped considerably with the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Mississippian ammonoids.
Dawn McShinsky has helped measure sections and collect ammonoids
2008
Dr. Hugo Bucher, Dr. Arnaud Brayard, and Jim Jenks
Together we are working on the Early Triassic Ammonoids of Western and Central Utah.
2008
Jim, Jean Guex, Viorel Atudorei
Working on some Spathian Ammonoids in the Confusion Range
2009
This site was started in December 1999, and first published on the world wide web as Old Calamari with Xoom.com in February 2000. Later Xoom.com changed to NBCI.com, after a few years they stopped offering free web space so I moved the site to Topcities.com, only to have them shut down. On October 2, 2003, I registered the domain ammonoid.com, where the site is now.