Description |
282 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 color map, portraits ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index. |
Contents |
Lasting impressions -- The shark bites -- Right shark, wrong name -- First, cousins -- Whorl of fortune -- Karpinsky makes the call : Helicoprion -- A shiver of sharks -- Signs of life -- The art of obsession -- The new guard -- Resurrection, one slice at a time -- Coming to terms -- To the summit and beyond -- Shark is a verb |
Summary |
"In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-fish enthusiast, Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen in a museum-- a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth, from the Helicoprion, a mysterious monster from deep time. In 2010 the undergraduate student, Jesse Pruitt, became seriously smitten with a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. Together, they researched and were able, with others, to reanimate this awe-inspiring beast"-- Dust jacket |
Subject |
Troll, Ray, 1954-
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Pruitt, Jesse.
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Subject(S) |
Sharks, Fossil.
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Chondrichthyes, Fossil.
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Paleobiology.
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Sharks.
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Fossils.
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Sharks -- Evolution.
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ISBN |
9781681773438 (hardcover) |
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1681773430 (hardcover) |
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