Before the Age of Dinosaurs in Virginia and Nearby States
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Before the Age of Dinosaurs in Virginia and Nearby States
About this book
The story of the ancient fossil animals and plants that lived in Virginia before the time of the dinosaurs is scarcely known to the public at large, even though numerous papers have been written about these creatures over the past two hundred years. Because most of this information is only available to academics in old scientific journals, the present book is presented to offer a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the largely unpublicized history of the animals and plants that lived in Virginia and nearby Mid-Atlantic States during the very ancient ages before even the dinosaurs had arisen on the world stage. While this book is focused primarily on the ancient fossil history of Virginia, it also extensively covers the fossils known from before the time of the dinosaurs in North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The synthesis presented here provides a detailed summary of the diverse assemblage of fossil animals and plants that lived and died here long before the age of dinosaurs had even begun.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 – The Oldest Rocks in the Virginia Region
- Chapter 2 – The Cryogenian: Evidence of an Ancient Ice Age in Virginia
- Chapter 3 – The Ediacaran: The Earliest Known Multicellular Life
- Chapter 4 – The Cambrian: Early Fish Relatives Appear in the Appalachian Region
- Chapter 5 – The Ordovician: A Time with Very Primitive Appalachian Near-Vertebrates
- Chapter 6 – The Silurian: The Oldest True Fishes Appear in Virginia
- Chapter 7 – The Devonian: Fish Become Abundant and Diverse
- Chapter 8 – The Early Carboniferous (Mississippian): Vertebrates Move onto Land
- Chapter 9 – The Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian): The Coal Age
- Chapter 10 – The Permian: The Final Act of the Paleozoic Era
- Chapter 11 – Where to See Paleozoic Fossils and Exhibits Related to Virginia
- References Cited
- Appendix 1 – Superscript Notes from Text
- Appendix 2 – Sources for Figures
- Table 1 – Vertebrate Fossils Described from the Paleozoic Strata of Virginia and Nearby States
- About the Authors