BAC28581 Indiana University Press, Bloomington: 2007. Small quarto, dustwrapper, 389 pp., colour photographs and illustrations, line drawings. BRAND NEW.<P> The incredible story of the dinosaurs and other animals that lived in the American West 150 million years ago. "Foster (curator of paleontology, Museum of Western Colorado) offers a very well-written book. The prose flows easily; it is hard to stop reading once one starts. The presentation of scientific information is excellent. Rather than creating a synthesized "story," Foster presents material in its true complexity without resorting to annoying speculation. . . . There is much to be learned from reading this book . . . Recommended." Choice "I very much enjoyed John Foster's book and am glad his perspective and knowledge will soon be available to lots of other people. His motor-car drive to Morrison time, and later the long safari across Morrison landscapes are very informative, entertaining, and above all highly original." Dale A. Russell, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, whose rocks are exposed from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. After more than a century of exploration, the Morrison continues to yield new discoveries about a time so different from our own that it almost seems imaginary. Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to reconstruct it. The book recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs comprise barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the Formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers. ISBN: 9780253348708 $95.00AUD
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