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Book Review: Fossils of the Milwaukee Formation: A Diverse Middle Devonian Biota from Wisconsin, USA
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We are very pleased to announce the recent review of our title: Gass, K.C., J. Kluessendorf, D.G. Mikulic, and C.E. Brett. 2019. Fossils of the Milwaukee Formation: A Diverse Middle Devonian Biota from Wisconsin, USA, just published in Priscum, the Newsletter of the Paleontological Society (May, 2021: 26). Click cover to go to product page for more info or to order your copy Edited snippets: This book is a window into the past in two ways: a window into a rich Devonian ecosystem, and a window into paleontology at the turn of the last century. The book is richly illustrated...
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FOUR new book reviews on Fossil Insects, Spiders and Arachnids
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We are very pleased to announce FOUR new book reviews on Fossil Insects, Spiders and Other Arachnids in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine. Snippets from the reviews are as follows (click any of the covers to read more reviews, see more info or to order your copy at a discount rate directly from the publisher): Deposits (2019, issue 57, page 23, edited snippets): “this book is intended to help fill the literature gap by providing an accessible introduction to some of the best preserved fossil insects from a wide range of deposits from around the world. It also covers...
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New Book Reviews: West Dorset Fossil Collecting and Trilobites of the World
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The latest edition of Deposits Magazine has just landed on my desk and I am happy to report that two of our books are reviewed within its pages. They include or most recent title: A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast Click the cover to go to the product page for more info and to order your copy Deposits Magazine (2018, issue 56, page 43, snippets): This newly published guide is another near-perfect fossil book from Siri Scientific Press, who are rapidly becoming my favourite publisher of esoteric palaeontology. … As a guide for amateurs...
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new book review: Fossils of Folkestone, Kent
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We are pleased to announce a nice new book review of our recent title: Fossils of Folkestone, Kent by Philip Hadland, which has just been published in Deposits Magazine, 2018 (Number 55, page 19 – snippets): This guide has an advantage over others – this and others all have marvellous full colour illustrations of the relevant Gault fossils, but as anyone who has struggled over the boulders from the end of the concrete harbour to Copt Point will know, there is a lot of Greensand, containing marvellous and multitudinous trace fossils … and around the corner in East Wear Bay...
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New Book Review: Trilobites of the British Isles
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We are very pleased to announce an excellent new book review of our recent title: Trilobites of the British Isles, which has just been published in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine, 2018 (Number 55, page 13 – snippets follow): … this illustrated (in colour) modern overview of the trilobites of Great Britain and Ireland is the first ever… with almost 800 photographic images of British and Irish trilobites, from both historically important collections and newly collected material … There are overviews and locality data of classic and less well-known locations, with discussions of their specific faunas … The book...
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