Trilobites

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Summary: The best
Review: I would have loved more in-depth informations, but this book is simply the best on the subject for the moment.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: If you love trilobite fossils this book is essential and wonderful. The photographs of fossil specimens are presented in chronological order and are simply breathtaking. Time and again I've returned to this classic for review or just to look at the dazzling variety of trilobites that have been carefully photographed. And what I really like about the book is that it makes it easy to share with family and friends just what is fascinating about this ancient creature.

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Summary: Classic welcome to trilobite diversity
Review: Levi-Setti's book was my first eye-opening entry into the incredible richness of ancient life forms that trilobites represent. There are some species in this book that belong in the best works that science-fiction can offer, and for the budding paleontologist there is a taste of the science and the art that combine to make that particular discipline so enticing to the public. My copy is so well used I'll have to get another some day soon! Levi-Setti's book is a true classic that anyone interested in ancient life forms will enjoy.

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Summary: Trilobites galore
Review: The first edition of this book (CH, Dec'75) received an enthusiastic response, and deservedly so. Levi-Setti, professionally a noted physicist, produced an atlas of exquisite macrophotographs of several hundred trilobites from worldwide localities. This new edition continues the reputation of the first and includes a chapter by the author on the discovery of the giant Paradoxides from a shale bed exposed in the gorge of the Manuels River, on the coast of Conception Bay, Eastern Newfoundland. He correlates this with Middle Cambrian strata found today in Wales and Scandinavia. The clarity of detail in the photographs is breathtaking. A short appendix details the techniques of the photography and the specimen preparation involved in this study, and will be very valuable to scholars. Be warned--the techniques are arduous and time consuming. The atlas itself is divided into sections that roughly correspond to the geologic period when specific genera were present, and a listing of all known trilobite families is included. The captions give detailed taxonomic and stratigraphic information as well as general and nontechnical details. In some cases, drawings are included to stress specific features. This reviewer particularly welcomes the new edition, since his copy of the first edition has become totally dog-eared from a generation of students fascinated by its contents. General; undergraduate; graduate.

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Summary: it sucked
Review: to scietifi

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Summary: Cool
Review: Trilobites are my favorite fossil but I never knew much about the animal. I chanced across this book and loved it! It is a great introduction to trilobites, but it's not light reading. I'd recommend this to anyone who is interested in or might be interested in trilobites.

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Summary: Cool
Review: Trilobites are my favorite fossil but I never knew much about the animal. I chanced across this book and loved it! It is a great introduction to trilobites, but it's not light reading. I'd recommend this to anyone who is interested in or might be interested in trilobites.

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Summary: The first triloibte book to buy!
Review: WIth exquisite detail and depth, Ricccardo Levi Setti has written a comprehensive book on these ancient creatures. Setti is professor of physics and director of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.