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The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world. This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you pick out a fossil's chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a color illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal. The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting, and how best to organize a fossil collection. To help you in the initial stages of identification, this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group. Finally, a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific terms.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0744030005
ISBN13:9780744030006
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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very good overall guide
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book provides a very very good overview of fossils in all categories -dinosaur, reptiles, sharks, mammals, ferns, problematica, etc.Nicely done with a very good color image of a representative fossil, as well as classification, a drawing of what the animal would look like, and typical size. This is true for every specimen.Certainly depth of information is limited, however is still represented in small descriptions of habitat, locale, feeding habits, and occasionally quips of special interest.Drawback is simply that more dinosaurs, reptiles, mammals could be represented. An inordinate amount of specimens are mollusks, snails etc.However, again this book still does a good job of showing the many types of specimens in the fossil record which does grow on you. A more extensive library of possible fossils could have been optioned to show a more choice fossil selection in some cases. Good amount of information (concisely represented), with images and drawings very professionally done.A larger, more in depth hardcover edition would be welcome.
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