THE ECOLOGY OF FOSSILS An Illustrated Guide

About 1,000 representative species have been pictured, each in its community with definite geological provenance; in many instances the same or closely similar forms will be found in most parts of the world.

"This book is the first attempt to portray communities of marine invertebrates from every geological system since the Precambrian. It contains 125 block-diagrams of fossil assemblages, each picturing animals and/or plants in life-position, in many cases their position when buried as fossils and their appearance in cross-section in the sediment. Each assemblage is described and for each system there is a general introduction. The book owes a great deal to Mrs. E. Winson for her excellent drawings."
- Nature
"About 1,000 representative species have been pictured, each in its community with definite geological provenance; in many instances the same or closely similar forms will be found in most parts of the world. Seven experts divide the task among themselves by long periods; the editor is a distinguished paleontologist at Oxford. There is a valuable introduction to the principles of paleoecology, with a classification scheme for plants and animals... [the book's] 'main purpose is to educate and stimulate.' It is an unusual success on those terms."
- Philip Morrison, Scientific American