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Author:   Rolf Ludvigsen
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780774805780

ISBN 10:   0774805781
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   06 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Deep Time in the Cordillera / Rolf Ludvigsen 2 Fossils and Museums: Windows into Ancient Worlds / Richard J. Hebda and David A.E. Spalding 3 The Origin and Evolution of Canada's Western Mountains / James W.H. Monger 4 Lower Cambrian Trilobites: Most Ancient Mariners / Rolf Ludvigsen and Lisa L. Bohach 5 The Trilobite Beds of Mount Stephen, Yoho National Park / David M. Rudkin 6 The Burgess Shale: A Spectacular Cambrian Bestiary / Desmond H. Collins 7 The Microscopic World of Conodonts / Michael J. Orchard 8 Mesozoic Radiolarians of Haida Gwaii / Elizabeth S. Carter 9 Fishes of the Triassic: Trawling off Pangaea / Andrew G. Neuman 10 Ammonoids and Bivalves: Triassic Life at Sea / E. Tim Tozer 11 Ammonoids: Itinerants of the Jurassic / Giselle K. Jakobs 12 On the Trail of Cretaceous Dinosaurs / Scott D. Sampson and Philip J. Currie 13 Ancient Saurians: Cretaceous Reptiles of Vancouver Island / Rolf Ludvigsen 14 Mollusks: Exotic Shells from Cretaceous Seas / James W. Haggart 15 Plant Life during the Great Cretaceous Transformation / James F. Basinger and Elisabeth McIver 16 Paleogene Mammals on Land and at Sea / Lee McKenzie McAnally 17 Fishes from Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Mark V.H. Wilson 18 Insects near Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Mark V.H. Wilson 19 Flowering Plants in and around Eocene Lakes of the Interior / Ruth A. Stockey and Wesley C. Wehr 20 Eocene Conifers of the Interior / James F. Basinger, Elisabeth McIver and Wesley C. Wehr 21 Quaternary Animals: Vertebrates of the Ice Age / C. Richard Harington 22 Late Pleistocene Salmon of Kamloops Lake / Catherine C. Carlson and Kenneth Klein 23 Quaternary Plants: Glimpses of Past Climates and Landscapes / Richard J. Hebda 24 Epilogue: The Cordillera through the Mists of Time / Christopher R. Barnes

Reviews

For the beginner, this fascinating book will challenge and reward in equal measure. For the professional, it will provide a valuable introduction to the literature and to British Columbia's ancient history. -- John E. Storer Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996

For the beginner, this fascinating book will challenge and reward in equal measure. For the professional, it will provide a valuable introduction to the literature and to British Columbia's ancient history. -- John E. Storer * Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996 *

Author Information

Rolf Ludvigsen lives on Denman Island, British Columbia, where he runs the Denman Institute for Research on Trilobites. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria and the Chair of the British Columbia Paleontological Alliance.

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