Life in Stone
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.
A very important contribution to the field of public education in science ... Very readable.
A most remarkable book ... Each chapter clearly fits as part of the whole yet each one is a unique adventure into a fascinating part of the ancient world ... The book leaves me, as I'm sure it will leave others, with a sense of wonder about B.C.'s ancient life and how it fits into the world scheme of paleontology.
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
