Discusses more than 500 specimens, includes color photographs, and provides concise descriptions and essential identification information.
Record details
ISBN:9780789489845
ISBN:0789489848
Physical Description:320 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. print
Edition:2nd American ed.
Publisher:New York : DK, c2002.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
How this book works -- What is a fossil? -- Modes of preservation -- Geological time chart -- Where to look -- Collecting fossils -- Preparing your collection -- From hobby to science -- Fossil identification key -- Invertebrates -- Vertebrates -- Plants.