The Audubon Society field guide to North American fossils

This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop formations. The descriptive text includes informa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Ida (Author)
Corporate Author: National Audubon Society
Other Authors: Dickinson, Townsend, -approximately 1860 (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Series:Audubon Society field guide series.
Physical Description:
846 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- North America.
Fossils -- Identification.
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Contents:
  • Life and Geologic Time
  • Geologic Time Chart
  • Fossil-bearing Rocks
  • Part I: Color plates. How to Use This Guide
  • Key to the Maps
  • Maps
  • Fossiliferous Rocks and Outcroppings
  • Key to the Color Plates
  • Thumb Tab Guide
  • Scallop-shaped Fossils
  • Clam-shaped Fossils
  • Snail-shaped Fossils
  • Gastropods
  • Arthropods
  • Cystoids, Blastoids, and Crinoids
  • Cone-shaped Fossils
  • Disc-shaped Fossils
  • Sponges, Corals, and Bryozoans
  • Trace Fossils and Graptolites
  • Vertebrates
  • Plants
  • Part II: Text. Sponges
  • Cnidarians
  • Mollusks
  • Annelids
  • Small Tubes of Uncertain Affinities
  • Arthropods
  • Bryozoans
  • Brachiopods
  • Echinoderms
  • Hemichordates
  • Trace Fossils
  • Insects
  • Vertebrates
  • Part III: Appendices. How to Collect and Preserve Fossils
  • Glossary
  • List of Major Fossil Displays
  • List of Geological Surveys
  • List of Specimen Localities.

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