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Stinchcomb, a retired professor of geology at St. Louis Community College, presents 840 new specimens from the Paleozoic period, organized by taxonomic position: sponges and archeocyathids, cnidaria, fossil "worms" and worm phyla, brachiopods and bryozoans, mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and chordates. He introduces the Paleozoic Era, Paleozoic rock strata, the areas he recovered fossils from in the Midwest, and the basics of fossil collecting, then provides a visual guide to the fossils, with descriptions. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
