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May-June 2001
Volume 89, Number 3
DOI: 10.1511/2001.22.0
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The 78 splendid photographs of fossils in Ancient Microworlds, by Giraud Foster and Norman Barker (Custom and Limited Editions, $65), include barks, corals, leaves, fishes, crustaceans, seashells, opalized wood, cephalopod shells, Arizona petrified woods and Colorado dinosaur bones.
From Ancient Microworlds.
From Ancient Microworlds.
From Ancient Microworlds.
From Ancient Microworlds.
Shown are Eocene palm roots from Texas, preserved in opaline quartz; a late Jurassic ammonite, replaced by pyrite enough to show suture lines, from Germany; a cross-section of the trunk of a Permian tree fern, also from Germany; and a Jurassic conifer from Patagonia, with seeds that contain embryos.
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