Introduction to Plant Fossils

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also crucially offers non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant fossils and how to identify common types, such as compressions and impressions. Incorporating the concepts of evolutionary floras, this second edition includes revised data on all main plant groups, the latest approaches to naming plant fossils using fossil-taxa and techniques such as tomography. With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate courses in palaeobotany, palaeontology, plant evolutionary biology and plant science, and for amateurs interested in studying plant fossils.

ISBN:	9781108705028
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Imprint:	Cambridge University Press
Published date:	27 Jun 2019
DEWEY:	561
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	viii, 264 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	582g
Height:	190mm
Width:	243mm
Spine width:	12mm

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