Snapshots from deep time
Subtitle: the 52-million-year-old communities of the Fossil Butte Member, locked in stone
By: Lance Grande ; with photography by Lance Grande and John Weinstein
Contributors: Weinstein, John (John S.), 1955- photographer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780226922966; 9780226922980
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Paleobiology; Fossils; Paleontology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: Fossils from the FBM : history, controversy, and quarry life; title: Exposing the record of past life : fossil preparation; title: Classification of fossils and their place in the web of life; title: Bacteria; title: Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda); title: Mollusks (Phylum Mollusca); title: Vertebrates (Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Vertebrata); title: Cartilaginous fishes (Superclass Chondrichthii); title: Ray-finned fishes (Superclass Actinopterygii); title: Abundance and distribution of fish species; title: Tetrapods (Superclass Sarcopterygii); title: Amphibians (Class Amphibia); title: Non-avian reptiles (Class Reptilia; Superorders [dagger]Paracryptodira, Cryptodira, Squamata, and Crocodylomormha); title: Birds (Class Reptilia; Superorder Aves); title: Mammals (Class Mammalia); title: Plants; title: Green algae (Phylum Chlorophyceae); title: Ferns and horsetails (Phylum Filicopsida and Phylum Equisetopsida); title: Conifers (Phylum Coniferophyta); title: Non-eudicot flowering plants (Phylum Angiospermophyta; Subclasses Magnoliids, Monocotyledons, and Ceratophyliids); title: Eudicot flowering plants (Phylum Angiospermophyta; Subclass Tricolpates); title: Trace fossils; title: Reading the pages of deep history.