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<p> Archer, Hand, and Godthelp (all, Univ. of New South Wales) offer abeautifully written and magnificently illustrated description of the literallyhundreds of different fossil vertebrate species unearthed in Riversleigh, a ratherisolated station 200 kilometers northwest of Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia. Thishighly readable volume covers the period from the end of the 1970s to the early1990s. The fossil python Montypythonoides riversleighensis (seven meters long); Bumon a Bug (tail assembly of a larval insect); Crusty Meat Pie Site (an accumulationof fossil turtles); Thingodonta, a marsupial mammal; and the Camel Sputum limestoneare some of the topics covered. Strong emphasis is given to the fieldwork involvedin this excavation that covers roughly the last 25 million years. The three authorsare professional paleontologists, but their style of writing is such that evenreaders with a minimal scientific background will find this a fascinating volume.More than a dozen two-page color illus

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