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On Methuselah's trail : living fossils and the great extinctions
- Title
- On Methuselah's trail : living fossils and the great extinctions / Peter Douglas Ward ; [illustrations by Linda Krause, unless noted otherwise].
- Author
- Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-
- Publication
- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1992.
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- Description
- xii, 212 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Living fossils and the great extinctions
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Steven M. Stanley -- Introduction: The Phenomenon of Living Fossils -- The Advent of Skeletons: The Brachiopods -- Before Modern Predation: The Flat Clams -- The Kraken Wakes: Nautilus and the Rise of the Ammonites -- Death of the Polypi: Nautilus and the Last Ammonites -- Timeless Design: The Horseshoe Crabs -- The First Spring: Plants Invade the Land -- Out of the Ooze: The Lobe-fins -- Envoi.
- Call Number
- JSE 12-150
- ISBN
- 0716722038
- 9780716722038
- LCCN
- 91017071
- OCLC
- 23732474
- Author
- Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-
- Title
- On Methuselah's trail : living fossils and the great extinctions / Peter Douglas Ward ; [illustrations by Linda Krause, unless noted otherwise].
- Imprint
- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1992.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 12-150