By Pei-ji Chen, Yuan Wang, Yuan-qing Wang
No different unmarried quantity connection with the Jehol website and its fossils exists and nowhere is there any such choice of advantageous pictures of the fossils involved. This ebook has pieced jointly the main up to date info at the Jehol Biota, a spot that has proven the realm one of the most dazzling fossil unearths together with the 1st entire skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, four-winged dinosaurs- many feathered ones, the 1st beaked chook, the 1st crops with flora and culmination, and hundreds of thousands of species of invertebrates. Authors shed new gentle on a few fascinating theoretical concerns in evolutionary biology at the present time, equivalent to the starting place and early evolution of a few significant taxonomic groups.
The first chapters supply an inviting creation to the Jehol Biota when it comes to its heritage of analysis, its major parts, its medical significance, its geographical, geological and biostratigraphic framework, and its well known fossil discoveries. all the last chapters bargains with a selected organismal workforce of the Biota written by way of top specialists. The booklet is lavishly illustrated with approximately 280 illustrations, which come with 2 hundred photos that convey the variety of the taxa and sweetness in their maintenance. the coloured lifestyles restorations, elegantly performed by means of a few of China's so much celebrated clinical illustrators, supply a kiss of lifestyles to the lifeless bones. even though special essentially at an informed public, the booklet can also be a useful resource of knowledge for college students and execs in paleontology, geology, evolutionary biology and technological know-how schooling in general.
* Authoritative advent to a thrilling, vintage Mesozoic website domestic to the various world's most crucial and most sensible preserved fossils
* Clear informative textual content obtainable to the pro and lay reader alike
* Over two hundred prime quality photos of a variety of amazing fossils
* Beautiful color work depicting reconstructed animals and crops in sensible landscapes
* Lavish, huge structure, top of the range creation
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