The fossil book; a record of prehistoric life
[by] Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton.
- 1st edition
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, c1958.
- 482 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 27 cm.
TABLES
tales told by the dead rocks, fossils and ages groups, names and relationships earth's oldest remains a variety of protists sponges, true and probable simple coelenterates moss animals, or bryozoans the sturdy brachiopods armored echinoderms sea stars, urchins, and cucumbers snails and their kin pelecypods feet before heads ammo;s stones and naked cephalopods worms, burrows and trails when trilobites roamed crustaceans arthropods from shoals to air nets and wrigglers to sharks the bony fishes new plants on old lands lungs, legs and land dwellers amphibian and reptile groups farewells to land scale-bearers and lizard-hipped dinosaurss bird-hipped dinosaurs flying reptiles and birds the rise of mammals a revolution and its sequel more and beter mammals ancient families beasts and birds of ice age read, see and collect