Fossils
Book - 2021
Packed with more than 1,000 crystal-clear photographs with precise annotations to make identification easy and accurate. In this fully revised and updated edition, jargon-free text pinpoints the key characteristics of each fossil and provides quick, accessible information.
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- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
DK Publishing
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- [New American ed.]
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780744030006
- Introduction
- Authors' introduction
- How this book works
- What is a fossil?
- Modes of preservation
- Geological time chart
- Where to look
- Collecting fossils
- Preparing your collection
- From hobby to science
- Fossil identification key
- Invertebrates
- Foraminiferans
- Sponges
- Bryozoans
- Worms
- Trace fossils
- Problematica
- Graptolites
- Corals
- Trilobites
- Crustaceans
- Chelicerates
- Insects
- Brachiopods
- Bivalves
- Scaphopods and Chitons
- Gastropods
- Nautiloids
- Ammonoids
- Ammonites
- Belemnites and Squids
- Crinoids
- Echinoids
- Asteroids
- Ophiuroids
- Blastoids
- Cystoids
- Carpoids
- Vertebrates
- Agnathans
- Placoderms
- Chondrichthyans
- Acanthodians
- Osteichthyans
- Tetrapods
- Lissamphibians
- Amniotes
- Reptiles
- Dinosaurs
- Birds
- Synapsids
- Mammals
- Algae
- Plants
- Early land plants
- Hepatophytes
- Sphenopsids
- Ferns
- Lycopods
- Pteridosperms
- Bennettites
- Progymnosperms
- Cordaitales
- Conifers
- Ginkgos
- Eudicot Angiosperms
- Monocotyledonous Angiosperms
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgments