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This book is devoted to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving paleontological specimens by generations of scientists. Paleontological collections…
are a huge resource for modern research and should be available for national and international scientists and institutions, as well as prospective public and private customers. These collections are an important part of the scientific enterprise, supporting research, public education, and the documentation of past biodiversity. Much of what we are beginning to understand about our world, we owe to the collection, preservation, and ongoing study of natural specimens. Properly preserved collections of fossil marine or terrestrial plants and animals are archives of Earth's history and vital to our ability to learn about our place in its future.The approach employed by the editors involves not only an introduction to the paleontological collections in general, but also information on the international and national collection networks. Particular attention is given to new exhibition concepts and approaches of sorting, preserving and researching in paleontological collections and also their neglect and/or threat. In addition, the book provides information on all big public museums, on important state museums and regional Museums, and also on university collections.This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insight for readers with an interest in fossil record, biodiversity, taxonomy, or evolution, as well as natural history collections at large.Advances in South American Micropaleontology: Selected Papers of the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress (Springer Earth System Sciences)
By Graciela Andrea Concheyro, Emiliana Bernasconi, Gabriela Catalina Cusminsky. 2019
This book offers many examples of calcareous microfossils and describes a new microfaunistic record in Argentina. These selected papers of…
the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress include micropaleontological studies on material of different geological ages from several sites in Argentina and Colombia. The authors highlight several geological findings and explain the paleoenvironmental changes in Argentina and Colombia.Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
By Craig Childs. 2018
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people…
in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time.The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals.Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.What Was the Ice Age? (What Was?)
By Nico Medina, David Groff, Who Hq. 2017
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly…
mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient world in a vivid and easy-to-read narrative.The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of…
which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km The major caves form the core part of sub-basins which drain to big springs and ultimately to the Greenbrier River Individual chapters of this book describe each of the major caves and its associated drainage basin The caves are formed in the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone in a setting of undulating gentle folds Fractures lineaments and confining layers within the limestone are the main controlling factors The caves underlie an extensive sinkhole plain which may relate to a major erosion surface The caves are habitat for both aquatic and terrestrial organisms which are cataloged and described as are the paleontological remains found in some of the caves The sinkhole plain of the Greenbrier karst and the underlying complex of cave systems are the end result of at least a ten million year history of landscape evolution which can be traced through the evolving sequence of cave passages and which is described in this bookDinosaurs Among Us
By Gary Galbreath. 2017
The Dinosauria
By Halszka Osmólska, David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson. 2004
When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference…
work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors--forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria--contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts. The first section of The Dinosauria begins with the origin of the great clade of these fascinating reptiles, followed by separate coverage of each major dinosaur taxon, including the Mesozoic radiation of birds. The second part of the volume navigates through broad areas of interest. Here we find comprehensive documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, discussion of the interface between geology and biology, and the paleoecological inferences that can be made through this link. This new edition will be the benchmark reference for everyone who needs authoritative information on dinosaurs.Methods in Paleoecology
By Darin A. Croft, Denise F. Su, Scott W. Simpson. 2018
This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a comprehensive review of current techniques and their application…
in exemplar studies. The 18 chapters address a wide variety of topics that span vertebrate paleobiology and paleoecology (body mass, postcranial functional morphology, evolutionary dental morphology, microwear and mesowear, ecomorphology, mammal community structure analysis), contextual paleoenvironmental studies (paleosols and sedimentology, ichnofossils, pollen, phytoliths, plant macrofossils), and special techniques (bone microstructure, biomineral isotopes, inorganic isotopes, 3-D morphometrics, and ecometric modeling). A final chapter discusses how to integrate results of these studies with taphonomic data in order to more accurately characterize an ancient ecosystem. Current investigators, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students interested in the field of paleoecology will find this book immensely useful. The length and structure of the volume also makes it suitable for teaching a college-level course on reconstructing Cenozoic ecosystems.Talking with T. Rex
By Rachel Young. 2017
How to Find a Fossil
By Amy Tao. 2017
Penny's Pet Peeves
By Amy Tao. 2016
Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Microfossils (Springer Geology)
By Sreepat Jain. 2020
This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief…
introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous illustrations. This is followed by a brief note on its classification, and concludes with illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time with their major distinguishing characteristics. Featuring over 2500 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations, the book offers a fundamental resource for budding palaeontologists, petroleum geologists and palaeobiologists.A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology: Second Edition
By Robert L. Carlton. 2019
This new and significantly updated authored dictionary is a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts. It focuses…
primarily on identifying the most significant groups of fossil animals and plants in relation to their evolution and phylogeny. It also focuses on mass extinctions, on taxa that are problematic in some significant way, on the principal fossil-Lagerstätten of the world, and on historical turning points marked by index fossils. Although there are many current resources on the subject, none contains an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. Although well aware that the fast-changing field of paleontology will always defy any attempt at complete description, the author has attempted to provide an accurate and comprehensive set of about 4,000 entries that will be useful to professionals as well as to general readers of scientific literature without a background in paleontology.Rock Secrets
By Betsy James. 2017
Yo Wants to Know: All About Dinosaurs!
By Lea Daniel. 2017
Tooth and Claw: The Dinosaur Wars
By Deborah Noyes. 2019
The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American West,…
perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming.Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive. Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a "war" waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time
By National Museum of Natural History, Blake Edgar. 2019
A fun, pocket-sized book presenting the remarkable dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed Earth billions of years agoSmithsonian Dinosaurs and…
Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time traces the journey of life on Earth from its origins some 4.6 billion years ago. Beginning with the first evidence of life in the form of single-celled microbes, it moves through the Cambrian era's explosion of biodiversity around 540 million years ago through the mass extinction event 252 million years ago that cleared the stage for the first turtles, pterosaurs, and other dinosaurs and mammals of the Triassic era. It offers a rare look at some of the world's most fascinating creatures: from sauropods, the largest creatures to ever walk the land, to the top carnivorous predator Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the mastodons, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, walrus-whales, and other beasts that seem outlandish to us now. Profiling these and many other fascinating creatures throughout prehistory, the book is sure to delight young dinosaur enthusiasts.Dinosaurs Field Guide: A Field Guide (Princeton Field Guides)
By Dover, Printworks Kmg. 2013
Discover what dinosaurs looked like and what they ate, what their names mean, where they lived, and much more. This…
field guide is jam-packed with insights into the lives of creatures from the Mesozoic era, featuring up-to-date information based on recent discoveries. You'll also find loads of dinosaur-related activities, including:• Coloring pages• Word searches• Spot-the-differences• Drawing exercises• Mazes & more! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.Dinosaurs
By Ken Jennings, Mike Lowery. 2016
Travel back in time to the dinosaur age with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! winner and New York Times…
bestselling author Ken Jennings.With this book about dinosaurs, you'll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with some awesome facts: Did you know that dinosaurs skin was more like bump bird skin than modern snake or crocodile scales? Or that the Tyrannosaurus Rex might have croaked like a frog instead of roaring? With great illustrations, cool trivia, and fun quizzes to test your knowledge, this guide will have you on your way to whiz-kid status in no time.Dinosaur Tracking!
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. 2016
Young Carla finds some strange looking footprints in the backyard, and her family makes a trip to the museum to…
figure out what left them. They learn about the relationship between birds and dinosaurs.