British Caenozoic Fossils

Download or read book British Caenozoic Fossils written by Natural History Museum and published by Intercept Scientific, Medical and Technical Publications. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook illustrates 354 fossil specimens of animals and plants that have inhabited Britain during the past 70 million years. It is intended to provide a concise and inexpensive source of reference for those wishing to know which fossils from this period they may expect to find in Britain, and to help them identify for themselves the fossilsthey have collected.Following a brief introduction to the subject, simple stratigraphical tables show the classification of British Caenozoic rock formations. There is a comprehensive listing of the geological distribution of each species featured, which can be cross-referenced with theappropriate illustration, and a brief explanation of the scientific names of fossils.The book’s identification guide includes 44 plates of accurate black-and-white line drawings and features 354 invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossil species. Each of thespecies is illustrated with at least one drawing, which is accompanied by details of where in Britain it can be found.With a geological time-scale and a map of the location of key fossil locations, this guide will help both amateur and professional palaeontologists identify everything from abivalve to a brachiopod.