Exceptional Fossil Preservation: A Unique View on the Evolution of Marine Life (Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology)

by D J Bottjer (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $86.43

  This photographically rich volume provides a synthetic overview of a wide sample of Lagerstatten from marine environments reaching back in time to the Precambrian, more than 500 million years ago. These occurrences of exceptional fossil preservation are providing scientists with a new source of evidence to understand how life has evolved in the Earth's oceans.