Mesozoic Sea Dragons : Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio Hardback
by Olivier Rieppel
Illustrated by Beat Scheffold
Part of the Life of the Past series
Hardback
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Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs.
During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon.
Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil record of marine life from that time.
Attracted to an incredibly diverse and well-preserved set of fossils, Swiss and Italian paleontologists have been excavating the mountain since 1850. Synthesizing and interpreting over a century of discoveries through a critical twenty-first century lens, paleontologist Olivier Rieppel tells for the first time the complete story of the fish and marine reptiles who made that long-ago lagoon their home.
Through careful analysis and vividly rendered recreations, he offers memorable glimpses of not only what Thalattosaurs, Protorosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pachypleurosaurs, and other marine life looked like but how they moved and lived in the lagoon.
An invaluable resource for specialists and accessible to all, this book is essential to all who are fascinated with ancient marine life.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 100 Halftones, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2019
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- ISBN:9780253040114
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 100 Halftones, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253040114
