Introduction to paleobiology and the fossil record

The first edition of this book was published in 1997 by Addison Wesley Longman.

It has the following key features. This is the first text to include fossil vertebrates, plants, microfossils and trace fossils in addition to the traditional invertebrate chapters; the first text to take an analytical approach, featuring material of mass extinctions, rates of evolution, heterochrony, and phylogeny; and the first text to include simple qualitative methods in phylogeny, biogeography, and population studies.