A Sea Without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region

by David L. Meyer and Richard Arnold Davis

The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago--some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253351987
• ISBN13: 9780253351982
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher