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In its combination of magnificent pictures and authoritative and well written text this is undoubtedly a book to recommend... the pictures can be studied and appreciated at virtually any level from Junior School to Honours level at university. TEACHING EARTH SCIENCESThe great succession of kinds oftrilobites evolved in a world of changing geography and climate. How trilobites were preserved, the kinds of rocks in which they occur, and traces oftheir activity, are described in order to infer where they lived in ancient seas and their manner of life. Changes in form and recurring trends are discussed; and the search for evolutionary links between kinds of trilobites, as the basis for a natural classification, is reviewed. Contents: Introduction; General character, terminology of exoskeleton, zoological names; Limbs; Anatomy and activity; Growth and moulting; Exoskeleton: form andfunction; Preservation and occurrence; Distribution in time, evolution and classification; Plates, classification of species figured, explanations ofplates and text-figures. H.B. WHITTINGTONis Emeritus Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge; from 1949-66 he was Professor of Geology at Harvard University.
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H. B. Whittington is Emeritus Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge.
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Trilobites (Fossils Illustrated)
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Trilobites (Fossils Illustrated)
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); 1.9 lbs; 145 pages of text plus 119 pages of plates; Gray trilobite photo to jacket with title in black lettering; 2000, Boydell Press; "Trilobites (Fossils Illustrated)," by H.B. Whittington. Seller Inventory # SKU-1222AK01403034