The Fossil Record

By: Michael Benton (Editor)

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Hardcover | Edition Number 2

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864 Pages

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The history of life is illustrated by fossils which give crucial information on the plants and animals of the past. Fossil Record 2 is a compilation of this mass of data. All families of protists, plants and animals and their ranges in geological time are documented, with full details of first and last species for each family. As a result of taxonomic revisions, new finds and stratigraphic re-assignments, the records of families and their ranges have changed a great deal since the first version (1967). 7186 families are documented, a significant increase from the 2924 listed in 1967. The 90 international experts who have written this book have made this global standard reference an essential purchase for professional palaeontologists and stratigraphers as well as ecologists and evolutionary biologists interested in changes in global diversity. This book should be of interest to palaeontologists, stratigraphers, ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

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...a volume which is even greater in scope than the first Fossil Record - thus 90 contributors have produced 45 chapters covering the fossil record of literally everything! In summary, this is an invaluable reference for all palaeontologists - Geoscientist; The editor and authors of this massive database are to be congratulated on a very substantial achievement - Nature; ...a massive tome full of information clearly presented and attractively bound. It will doubtless serve as an important reference for palaeontologists until wel past the year 2000 - Cretaceous Research; This piece of work constitutes an important reference document for paleontologists, and M.J. Benton should be congratulated for having completed such an extensive text. - Geobios; ...a very useful compendium...I think most professional palaeontologists would like a copy of their own. - The Palaeontological Association Newsletter; An important specialist reference... - Choice

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