Research Disciplines
Education
B.S. Geology, Brigham Young University, 1982
M.S. Geology, Brigham Young University, 1987
Ph.D., University of Calgary, 1993
Professional Background
2002 – Current Brigham Young University, Provo, UtahAssociate Professor
1998 – 2002 Stewart Museum, Ogden, UtahDirector
1993-1998 Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, ColoradoCurator of Paleontology
Teaching
Geology 100: Dinosaurs
Geology 101: Introduction to Geology
Geology 103: Life of the Past
Geology 111: Physical Geology
Geology 112: Historical Geology
Geology 586: Vertebrate Paleontology
Research
A. Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation
Fauna, taphonomy and sedimentology
Age (U-Pb detrital zircon), stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental aspects of the formation
Dinosaur National Monument Quarry 16, a brachiosaurid bonebed
B. Late Jurassic Morrison Formation
Analysis and descriptions of new specimens of the heropod dinosaurs Ceratosaurus, and Torvosaurus.
C. Postcranial Pneumatic Bones of the Dinosauria and Other Archosaurs
Articles
Restoring Protections on Fossil-rich US Lands
Publications
Sues, H.D., Averianov, A., and Britt, B.B., 2022. A giant dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. Geological Magazine, 1-6. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822000954
Taylor, W.T.T., Hart, I, Jones, E.J., Brenner-Coltrain, J.B., Jobe, J.T., Britt, B. B., McDonald, H.G., Zhang, Y.L., Le Roux, P., Gover, C.Q., Schiavinato, S., Orlando, L., and Roberts, P., 2021. Interdisciplinary analysis of the Lehi Horse: Implications for early historic horse cultures of the North American West. American Antiquity, 86(3): 465-485. doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.109.
D’Emic, M.D., Foreman, B.Z., Jud, N.A., Britt, B.B., Schmitz, Crowley, J.L., 2019. Chronostratigraphic revision of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Western Interior, USA). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 60(1):1-40.
Britt, B.B., Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Chure, D.J., Engelmann, G.F., Whiting, M., Scheetz, D., 2018. Caelestiventus hanseni extends desert-dwelling pterosaur record back 65 million years. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1386-1392.
Britt, B.B., Scheetz, R.D., Whiting, M.F., Wilhite, D.R., 2017. Moabosaurus utahensis, n. gen., n. sp., a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 32(11): 189-243.
Britt, B.B., Chure, D.J., Engelmann, G.F., and Shumway, J.D., 2016. Rise of the erg: Paleontology and paleoenvironments of the Triassic-Jurassic Transition in northeastern Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 3:1-32.
Greenhalgh, S., McBride, J.H., Bartley, J.M., Keach, R.W., Britt, B.B., Kowallis, B., 2015. Along-strike variability of thrust fault vergence. Interpretation 3(3): SX1-SX12. doi: 10.1190/INT-2014-0182.1.
Chure, D.J., Engelmann, G.F., Britt, B.B., Good, T.R., 2014. It’s not your parent's erg deposit anymore: fossil management implications of a paleontological study of the Nugget Sandstone in northeastern Utah. Dakoterra 6:140-154.
Tidwell, W.D., Britt, B.B., Wright, W., 2013. Donponoxylon gen. nov., a new spermatophyte from the Middle to Late Jurassic of Australia and New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 196:36-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.03.008
Owen, A.W., Doyle, P., Harper, D., Britt, B.B., 2012. Corals and other reef builders. Lethaia 45(1):1. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00297.x
Doyle, P., Harper, D., Owen, A.W., Britt, B.B., 2011. Lethaia Focus. Lethaia 44(1):1. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00259.x
Carr, T.D., Williamson T.E., Britt, B.B., Stadtman, K., 2011. Evidence for high taxonomic and morphologic tyrannosauroid diversity in the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) of the American southwest and a new short-skulled tyrannosaurid from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah. Naturwissenschaften 98:241-246. DOI 10.1007/s00114-011-0762-7
Chure, D., Britt, B.B., Whitlock, J.A., Wilson, J.A., 2010. First complete sauropod dinosaur skull from the Cretaceous of the Americas. Naturwissenschaften 97:379-391. DOI 10.1007/s00114-010-0650-6.
Tidwell, W.D., Ash, S.R. and Britt, B.B., 2010. Oldest known dicotyledonous lianas from the early Late Cretaceous of Utah and New Mexico, U.S.A., Pp. 270-291 in Gee, C.T., ed., Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems. Indiana University Press, 373 pages.
Britt, B.B., Eberth, D.A., Scheetz, R.D., Greenhalgh, B.W., Stadtman, K.L., 2009. Taphonomy of debris-flow hosted dinosaur bonebeds at Dalton Wells, Utah (Lower Cretaceous, Cedar Mountain Formation, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 280(1-2):1-22.
Britt, B.B., Scheetz, R.D., and Dangerfield, A., 2008. A suite of dermestid beetle traces on dinosaur bone from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. Ichnos, 15:59-71.
Rigby, J.K., Blodgett, R.B., Britt, B.B., 2008. Ordovician sponges from west-central and east-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory, Canada. Bulletin of Geosciences 83(2):153-168.
Rigby, J.K., McKinie, M.G., Britt, B.B., 2008. Pennsylvanian sponges from the Bridgeport Formation of Wise County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 82(3): 492-510.
Rigby, J.K., Rohr, D.M., Blodgett, R.H., Britt, B.B., 2008. Silurian sponges and some associated fossils from the Heceta Limestone, Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 82, No. 1: 91-101.
Greenhalgh, B., and Britt, B.B., 2007. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison/Cedar Mountain formational boundary, east-central Utah. In, Willis, G.C., Hylland, M.D., Clark, D.L., and Chidsey, T.C., Jr., editors, Central Utah - diverse geology of a dynamic landscape. Utah Geological Association Publication 36, pp 81-100.
Kowallis, B.J., Greenhalgh, B.W., Sprinkel, D.A., Britt, B.B., 2007. New U-Pb zircon ages from an ash bed in the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation near Hanksville, Utah. In, Willis, G.C., Hylland, M.D., Clark, D.L., and Chidsey, T.C., Jr., editors, Central Utah - diverse geology of a dynamic landscape. Utah Geological Association Publication 36, pp 75-80.
Tidwell, W.D., Britt, B.B., and Tidwell, L.S., 2007. A review of the Cretaceous floras of east-central Utah and western Colorado. In, Willis, G.C., Hylland, M.D., Clark, D.L., and Chidsey, T.C., Jr., editors, Central Utah - diverse geology of a dynamic landscape. Utah Geological Association Publication 36, pp 467-482.
Scheetz, R.D., and Britt, B.B., 2007 Paleontological discoveries of James A. “Dinosaur Jim” Jensen in Central Utah. In, Willis, G.C., Hylland, M.D., Clark, D.L., and Chidsey, T.C., Jr., editors, Central Utah - diverse geology of a dynamic landscape. Utah Geological Association Publication 36, pp 455-465.
Britt, B.B., Scheetz, R.D., Brinkman, D.B., and Eberth, D.A., 2006. A Barremian Neochoristodere from the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26(4):1005-1008.
Tidwell, W.D., Connely, M., Britt, B.B., 2006. A flora from the base of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation near Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA. In, Foster, J.R., and Lucas, S.G., eds., Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 171-181.
Eberth, D.A., Britt, B.B., Scheetz, R.D., Stadtman, K.L., and Brinkman, D.B., 2006. Dalton Wells: Geology and significance of debris-flow-hosted dinosaur bonebeds (Cedar Mountain Formation, eastern Utah, USA). Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, 236:217-245.
Senter, P., Barsbold, R., Britt, B.B., and Burnham, D.A., 2004. Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Gunma Museum of Natural History Bulletin 8(1):1-20.
Kirkland, J.I., Britt, B.B., Whittle, C.H., Madsen, S.K., and Burge, D.L. 1999. A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of eastern Utah. In, Lucas, S.G., (ed), Lower and middle Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 14, pp 239-248.
Kirkland, J.I., Cifelli, R.L., Britt, B.B., Burge, D.L., DeCourten, J.L., Eaton, J.G., and Parrish, J.M., 1999. Distribution of vertebrate faunas in the Cedar Mountain Formation, east-central Utah. In, Gillette, D.G., (ed) Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Miscellaneous Publication 99-1, Utah Geological Survey, pp 201-218.
Lockley, M.G., Kirkland, J.I., DeCourten, F.L., Britt, B.B., and Hasiotis, S.T., 1999. Dinosaur Tracks from the Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah. In, Gillette, D.G., (ed.) Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Miscellaneous Publication 99-1, Utah Geological Survey, pp 253-258.
Britt, B.B., Makovicky, P.J., Gauthier, J., Bonde, N., 1998. Postcranial pneumatization in Archaeopteryx. Nature, 6700 (395):374-376.