A decade ago, a nearly complete elasmosaur skeleton was found near Courtenay on Vancouver Island, in rocks dating from 80 million years ago, and it caused a sensation. Finds like this remind us that British Columbia is home to some of the richest marine fossil beds in the world, most of them on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands which lie along the geographically active "ring of fire" encircling the Pacific Ocean. Written by two leading paleontologists, this concise and authoritative guide introduces fossils from the area, from delicate insect wings to razor-sharp shark teeth to coiled ammonites the size of truck tires, each of which was once a living part of an ancient ecosystem. The book includes maps, charts and more than 200 fossil photographs, as well as information for locating, collecting, studying, photographing and preserving fossils, and notes on the ethics of fossil collecting.
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Rolf Ludvigsen was a geology professor at the University of Toronto for twelve years, then moved to Denman Island, BC. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at University of Victoria, a consulting paleontologist, and the founding chair of the British Columbia Paleontological Alliance.
Graham Beard, who has collected fossils for thirty years, runs the Vancouver Island Paleontological Museum in Qualicum Beach.
Graham Beard, who has collected fossils for thirty years, runs the Vancouver Island Paleontological Museum in Qualicum Beach.
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Any reader who embarks upon reading this book as a first book on fossils will understand everything because the author, without being tedious, explains all terms as he goes along. The illustrations of the fossils are the clearest fossil illustrations I've ever seen. A guest illustrator provided line drawings of panoramas of life in the Cretaceous seas that will inspire many a "K - 12 and beyond" student with inspiration for their own dioramas. If you have to buy only one book on prehistoric sea life, this is the one.
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The Latin word fossilis simply means something dug out of the ground-stones, minerals, crystals, potsherds, flint implements, and what used to be called "figured stones." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
involute ammonite, compressed ammonite, heteromorph ammonite, spiriferid brachiopods, fine growth lines, productid brachiopods, shallow burrower, fossil record extending, ventral valve, island fossils, rounded ribs, radial ribs, fossil localities, amateur paleontologists, shale units, transverse ribs, fossil collectors, living chamber, rare fossil, front margin, common fossils, internal shell, marine reptiles, trace fossils Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Collishaw Point, Brannan Lake, Upper Cretaceous, Lambert Formation, Haslam Formation, British Columbia, Buttle Lake, Late Cretaceous, Puntledge River, Northwest Bay, Sooke Formation, Campbell River, Kyuquot Sound, Marble Meadows, Shelter Point, Cranberry Arms, Pacific Ocean, Bonanza Group, Mount Mark Formation, North America, Sucia Island, Via Appia Beds, Hesquiat Formation, Kapoose Formation, Rift Creek New!
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The Latin word fossilis simply means something dug out of the ground-stones, minerals, crystals, potsherds, flint implements, and what used to be called "figured stones." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
involute ammonite, compressed ammonite, heteromorph ammonite, spiriferid brachiopods, fine growth lines, productid brachiopods, shallow burrower, fossil record extending, ventral valve, island fossils, rounded ribs, radial ribs, fossil localities, amateur paleontologists, shale units, transverse ribs, fossil collectors, living chamber, rare fossil, front margin, common fossils, internal shell, marine reptiles, trace fossils Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Collishaw Point, Brannan Lake, Upper Cretaceous, Lambert Formation, Haslam Formation, British Columbia, Buttle Lake, Late Cretaceous, Puntledge River, Northwest Bay, Sooke Formation, Campbell River, Kyuquot Sound, Marble Meadows, Shelter Point, Cranberry Arms, Pacific Ocean, Bonanza Group, Mount Mark Formation, North America, Sucia Island, Via Appia Beds, Hesquiat Formation, Kapoose Formation, Rift Creek New!
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 189
- Where terranes collide by C. J Yorath in Back Matter
- Geological Evolution of North America by Thomas H. Clark in Back Matter
- The Pacific Ocean (Seas and Oceans) by David Lambert on page 117
- Sedimentary and Evolutionary Cycles (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences) by Ulf Bayer in Back Matter
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- Hiking the Gulf Islands: An Outdoor Guide to BC's Enchanted Isles by Charles Kahn in Back Matter
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