Fossils: The Oldest Treasures that Ever LivedA book creating a specialized literature on the subject of rare and unique fossils. |
Contents
Natural History Museums and their Treasures | 29 |
Only a Slab of Transitional Limestone | 40 |
TypesOriginalsSites | 73 |
Copyright | |
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already amber angiosperms animals Archaeopteryx bennettite Berlin specimen Beyrichian limestone bones brachiopods Brachiosaurus Buch Carboniferous Carboniferous period cells coal collection Compsognathus creatures Cretaceous Cretaceous period cross-section Devonian dinosaurs erratic excavated fauna feathers Federal Republic fern finds fossil fossil plants frond genera genus geological German Democratic Republic Glossopteris groups Holzmaden illustrated impression imprints Jurassic knowledge known land plants layer leaf leaves Leptaena lata Lower Devonian Magnification metres million years ago mineral molluscs Museum natural history nothosaurs organs original palaeobotanists palaeontologists Permian pinnae pollen possible preserved primitive bird principal slab Productus reconstruction remains reptiles Republic of Germany Rhynia rock sandstone saurians sauropods Schlotheim scientific sediment seed-ferns seeds shells shows Silurian skeleton skull Solnhofen species spines spores stem strange strata structure Telome Tendaguru Tentaculites Tertiary theory theropods thin section tion tissue Triassic trilobites ture underside Upper Carboniferous vein vertebrates wing wood xylem