Author: Fenton, Carroll Lane:
Title: Tales Told By Fossils: Unearthing Life's Past.
Description: London, Transworld Publishers, 1974. A Carousel Book, soft wraps, VG, spine and book faded, minor surf. soiling, v. light stain at top of rear cover, contents nice and tight with illustrations, diagrams and tables, pges browning. This book explains what fossils are, how they are found, and how they divide the Earth's history into an orderly series of ages. It also traces the beginning of life from the Precambrian era, over 2700 million years ago and follows its development until the Permian Period, 280 million years ago, when fringed fins had developed into legs and amphibians had produced reptiles. A scarce title.

Keywords: fossils, history, past, shells, sea-mud, trilobites, horn-shells, Precambrian, Permian, amphibians, reptiles, geology. 0552540463