A collection of papers on New Zealand Mollusca.
1921-1934. Octavo, photographs, contemporary binder's cloth with title. With a typed index of 24 papers, primarily from The Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. More
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1921-1934. Octavo, photographs, contemporary binder's cloth with title. With a typed index of 24 papers, primarily from The Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilised tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a Port Philip Bay beach near his home. This remarkable find-the tooth was large enough to cover his palm-sparked an interest in palaeontology that was..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, illustrations. Best-selling palaeontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping, scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind each discovery and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. This book provides the first historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of palaeobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and..... More
London: Icon Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils' was..... More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2004. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, other illustrations. Linking the evidence of the past with that of the present, this exquisitely illustrated guide examines the evolution of the mammalian fauna of Africa within the context of dramatic changes over the course of more than 30 million years of..... More