Description
Texas is known all over the world as a wealthy resource for the intricate Cretaceous-age echinoids widely sought by professional and amateur paleontologists. With much of the scientific literature on Texas Cretaceous echinoids decades old, here is an up to date and detailed guide for identifying this wealthy fossil fauna. After a brief description of the climatic events that led to the formation of these marine deposits, readers are introduced to the terminology had to have in mind the morphology and biology of echinoids. More than 350 fine quality color photographs and detailed descriptions provide a visual guide to identifying, regularly to the species level, the various Cretaceous echinoids found in Texas. The information will probably be of interest to nature lovers, new and advanced collectors, and students of invertebrate paleontology in search of in-depth, up to date insights into the morphology, classification, and identification of these striking fossils.