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The Star-Crossed Stone
Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the ...
Fossil Echini of the West Indies, And, Stratigraphic Significance of the Species of West Indian Fossil Echini (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Fossil Echini of the West Indies, And, Stratigraphic Significance of the Species of West Indian Fossil Echini At the request of Dr. T. Wayland Vaughn, I undertook to make a study of and prepare a report on the fossil Echini of the West Indies, to form a part of his geological and palaeontological survey of that region. I would express my deepest Obligations to Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark, Curator Of Echinoderms in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, whose great knowledge of Recent Echini and whose most generous help were placed constantly at my disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...
