Mesozoic Fossils: Triassic and Jurassic

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Bought as a gift to my 14 year old nephew along with a trilobite fossil and magnifying glass. Since then, he's found a another trilobite in a dried riverbed on his own.

Great book, interesting fossils!

I love Dr. Stinchcombs books and with this one he did not fall short of the others. This book has tons of information and just as many photos.

While dinosaurs get the most ink when one talks about the Triassic and Jurassic time periods, dinos were only a small part of life existing at that time, in land, air and sea. In this book, Dr. Bruce Stinchcomb concentrates primarily NOT on dinosaurs, but on the wide variety of excellently preserved fossils from the exquisite fossil plates of Solenholfen, Germany, to a wide variety of sea creatures living at the time: creatures of the air, land and seaAs in Stinchcomb's other books, typical good to excellent photos and profuse captions illustrate the time periods as a diverse ecosystem, with a wider variety than the title "Age of Dinosaurs" implies. He also includes chapters on contemporary use of dinosaurs as marketing tools, and how fossils of this age were presented to the public over a string of World's Fair exhibits. These might seem a bit eclectic to include in a fossil ID and valuation book but even though not everyone can own dinosaur fossils we are all affected by these animals in popular culture. This is a good book if you are interested in the general paleontology of the Mesozoic; be forewarned that it touches on but is not a comprehensive dinosaur fossil book.