Explore the rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era, from the
Cambrian (545 million years ago) through the Permian (almost 300
million years ago) with 650 high quality color photos and detailed,
highly readable text. Following his successful work on the earliest
fossils, the author now starts at that time in earths history when
life blossomed into a variety of body plans (phyla), and explores
the successive periods of the Paleozoic Era. These include the
Cambrian; the early, mid-, and late Ordovician; the Silurian and
Devonian with their numerous marine fossils and some of the earths
first land plants and early fish; the diverse land plants and
peculiar marine life of the Carboniferous (Mississippian and
Pennsylvanian periods); and the fossils of the Permian, including
many fossils of life forms that would go extinct in the worlds
greatest extinction event.\nThis is a great book for fossil hunters
of all ilks and anyone interested in the early remnants of life.
Those who collect or trade fossils will find a useful guide to the
values of the fossils.
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