West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island

by Rolf Ludvigsen and Graham Ludvigsen, Rolf;Beard

Book Overview

A decade ago, a nearly complete elasmosaur skeleton was found near Courtenay on Vancouver Island, in rocks dating from 80 million years ago, and it caused a sensation. Finds like this remind us that British Columbia is home to some of the richest marine fossil beds in the world, most of them on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands which lie along the geographically active "ring of fire" encircling the Pacific Ocean.Written by two leading paleontologists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550171798
• ISBN13: 9781550171792
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Readable, informative, excellent illustrations

Any reader who embarks upon reading this book as a first book on fossils will understand everything because the author, without being tedious, explains all terms as he goes along. The illustrations of the fossils are the clearest fossil illustrations I've ever seen. A guest illustrator provided line drawings of panoramas of life in the Cretaceous seas that will inspire many a "K - 12 and beyond" student with inspiration for their own dioramas. If you have to buy only one book on prehistoric sea life, this is the one.