Carpenter Ray L (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0838902561.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 482 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN: 58-13278 ; LC: QE711; Dewey: 560 ; OCLC: 547382 ; "The story of life during the past two billion years. . . Here the Fentons tell what fossils are, where they are found, what they mean, and how they are related to plants, animals, and other creatures living on earth today." ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: Tales told by the dead -- Rocks, fossils and ages -- Groups, names and relationships -- Earth's oldest remains -- A variety of protists -- Sponges, true and probable -- Simple coelenterates -- Moss animals, or bryozoans -- The sturdy brachiopods -- Armored echinoderms -- Sea stars, urchins and cucumbers -- Snails and their kin -- Pelecypods: clams, mussels and oysters -- Feet before heads: the nautiloids -- Ammon's stones and naked cephalopods -- Worms, burrows and trails -- When trilobites roamed -- Crustaceans -- Arthropods from shoals to air -- Nets and wrigglers to sharks -- The bony fishes -- New plants on old lands -- Lungs, legs and land-dwellers -- Amphibian and reptile groups -- Farewells to land -- Scale-bearers and lizard-hipped dinosaurs -- Bird-hipped dinosaurs -- Flying reptiles and birds -- The rise of mammals -- A revolution and its sequel -- More and better mammals -- Ancient families -- Beasts and birds of the Ice Age -- Read, see and collect. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New.