Description
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils.
Trade ReviewFor the beginner, this fascinating book will challenge and reward in equal measure. For the professional, it will provide a valuable introduction to the literature and to British Columbia’s ancient history. -- John E. Storer * Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996 *
Table of Contents1 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
