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English: A sample list of gaps in the fossil record (as of 2013) in terms of missing data (globally) between two fossils of the same species, genera, family, order etc. separated by millions of years.
Title page of De Natura Fossilium. De Natura Fossilium is a scientific text written by Georg Bauer also known as Georgius Agricola, first published in 1546.The book represents the first scientific attempt to categorize minerals, rocks and sediments since the publication of Pliny's Natural History.
In modern times, Alfred Romer (1894–1973) wrote what has been termed the definitive textbook on the subject, called Vertebrate Paleontology. [8] It shows the progression of evolution in fossil fish, and amphibians and reptiles through comparative anatomy, including a list of all the (then) known fossil vertebrate genera .
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier Books. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-02-093550-6. Orr, Elizabeth L. and Orr, William N. 2009. Oregon Fossils (Second Edition).
Palaeozoology, also spelled as Paleozoology (Greek: παλαιόν, palaeon "old" and ζῷον, zoon "animal"), is the branch of paleontology, paleobiology, or zoology dealing with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts, and the use of these fossils in the reconstruction of prehistoric environments and ancient ecosystems.
In 1913 Holmes was on the staff of Imperial College, when he published his famous book The Age of the Earth in which he argued strongly in favour of the use of radiometric dating methods rather than methods based on geological sedimentation or cooling of the Earth (many people still clung to Lord Kelvin's calculations of less than 100 million ...
Anthony J. Martin is a paleontologist who has taught at Emory University since the early 1990s. He is best known for his books, An Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs, [1] Life Traces of the Georgia Coast, [2] Dinosaurs without Bones, [3] and Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi that Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape Earth. [4]
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