Bibliograph

The complete guide to prehistoric life, Tim Haines and Paul Chambers

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The complete guide to prehistoric life, Tim Haines and Paul Chambers

Language

eng

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The complete guide to prehistoric life

Oclc number

60834094

Responsibility statement

Tim Haines and Paul Chambers

Summary

Text and digitally-created illustrations cover more than one hundred of the earliest beasts with profiles on their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and distribution across prehistoric Earth

Table Of Contents

The rise of life. Cambrian period (543 to 490 mya [i.e. million years ago]) ; Ordovician period (490 to 443 mya) ; Silurian period (443 to 417 mya) ; Devonian period (417 to 354 mya) ; Carboniferous period (354 to 290 mya) ; Permian period (290 to 248 mya) -- The age of reptiles. Triassic period (248 to 206 mya) ; Jurassic period (206 to 144 mya) ; Cretaceous period (144 to 65 mya) -- The age of beasts. Palaeocene epoch (65 to 55 mya) ; Eocene epoch (55 to 34 mya) ; Oligocene epoch (34 to 24 mya) ; Miocene epoch (24 to 5 mya) ; Pliocene epoch (5 to 1.8 mya) ; Pleistocene epoch (1.8 mya to 10,000 years ago)

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