DinoFest 2017 Speaker: Dr. Alan Titus

 

Dr. Alan Titus, a paleontologist in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Unexpected Treasure: Dinosaurs of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Scroll down to see a video of Dr. Titus's talk at DinoFest 2017

Hear how Dr. Titus and others have discovered a treasure trove of fossils including well-preserved examples of Cretaceous fish, turtles, alligators and dinosaurs from a region originally believed to be barren.

Dr. Alan Titus has worked as the monument paleontologist at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for the last 16 years. He was the first full-time permanent paleontologist hired after the Monument's creation and has overseen the entire Kaiparowits Basin megafaunal renaissance.

 

In 2013, he was honored with the naming of the horned dinosaur Nasutoceratops titusi in recognition of his contributions to the region's paleontology.

His current research interests include magnetic stratigraphy, marine reptiles, ammonite diversity, a multi-individual tyrannosaur bonebed, dinosaur thermo-regulation, and the classification of early hadrosaur-like dinosaurs.

Originally from Nevada, Titus has lived in Kanab for the last 16 years, where he enjoys hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and playing guitar in a classic rock cover band (named Mesozoic of course), when not out looking for fossils.    

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