Life in Stone - A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils.

List of contents

1 Introduction: Deep Time in the Cordillera / Rolf Ludvigsen
2 Fossils and Museums: Windows into Ancient Worlds / Richard J. Hebda and David A.E. Spalding
3 The Origin and Evolution of Canada's Western Mountains / James W.H. Monger
4 Lower Cambrian Trilobites: Most Ancient Mariners / Rolf Ludvigsen and Lisa L. Bohach
5 The Trilobite Beds of Mount Stephen, Yoho National Park / David M. Rudkin
6 The Burgess Shale: A Spectacular Cambrian Bestiary / Desmond H. Collins
7 The Microscopic World of Conodonts / Michael J. Orchard
8 Mesozoic Radiolarians of Haida Gwaii / Elizabeth S. Carter
9 Fishes of the Triassic: Trawling off Pangaea / Andrew G. Neuman
10 Ammonoids and Bivalves: Triassic Life at Sea / E. Tim Tozer
11 Ammonoids: Itinerants of the Jurassic / Giselle K. Jakobs
12 On the Trail of Cretaceous Dinosaurs / Scott D. Sampson and Philip J. Currie
13 Ancient Saurians: Cretaceous Reptiles of Vancouver Island / Rolf Ludvigsen
14 Mollusks: Exotic Shells from Cretaceous Seas / James W. Haggart
15 Plant Life during the Great Cretaceous Transformation / James F. Basinger and Elisabeth McIver
16 Paleogene Mammals on Land and at Sea / Lee McKenzie McAnally
17 Fishes from Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Mark V.H. Wilson
18 Insects near Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Mark V.H. Wilson
19 Flowering Plants in and around Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Ruth A. Stockey and Wesley C. Wehr
20 Eocene Conifers of the Interior / James F. Basinger, Elisabeth McIver and Wesley C. Wehr
21 Quaternary Animals: Vertebrates of the Ice Age / C. Richard Harington
22 Late Pleistocene Salmon of Kamloops Lake / Catherine C. Carlson and Kenneth Klein
23 Quaternary Plants: Glimpses of Past Climates and Landscapes / Richard J. Hebda
24 Epilogue: The Cordillera through the Mists of Time / Christopher R. Barnes

About the author

Rolf Ludvigsen lives on Denman Island, British Columbia, where he runs the Denman Institute for Research on Trilobites. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria and the Chair of the British Columbia Paleontological Alliance.

Summary

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rolf Ludvigsen (Editor)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.1996
• EAN: 9780774805780
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0578-0
• No. of pages: 318
• Weight: 513 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories