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Smithsonian Books, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Since its discovery in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains has fascinated both scientists and the public with its plethora of weird wonders - life forms of the past so unfamiliar they cannot easily be assigned to known taxonomic groups. This century's most significant invertebrate fossil discovery, the Burgess Shale provides an unprecedented window into the explosive evolution during the Cambrian period that began about 540 million years ago, one of the most enigmatic episodes in the history of life. This book provides the first comprehensive set of illustrations of the extraordinary life forms revealed in the Burgess Shale. In addition to the more common fossilized hard skeletons, the Burgess Shale preserved the soft…
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The Fossils of the Burgess Shale Paperback - 1995
by Derek E. Briggs; Douglas H. Erwin (Joint Author); Frederick J. Collier (Joint Author)
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- Title The Fossils of the Burgess Shale
- Author Derek E. Briggs; Douglas H. Erwin (Joint Author); Frederick J. Collier (Joint Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 3rd Printing
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Smithsonian Books (DC), Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date June 17, 1995
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781560986591 / 156098659X
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.97 x 6.88 x 0.63 in (25.32 x 17.48 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93044198
- Dewey Decimal Code 562.097
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