The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time

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The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But all the way through the early Eocene, more than fifty million years ago, it used to be a subtropical lake, surrounded by volcanoes and forests and teeming with life.  Buried within the sun-baked limestone is spectacular evidence of the lush vegetation and plentiful fauna of the ancient past, a transitional ecosystem giving us clues to how North The us recovered from a great extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs and the majority of all species in the world.
 
 
Paleontologists have been conducting excavations at Fossil Butte for more than 150 years, and with The Lost World of Fossil Lake, probably the most world’s leading experts on the fossils from this spectacular locality takes readers on a captivating journey through the history of the discovery and exploration of the web page. Deftly mixing unbelievable color photographs of the remarkable fossils uncovered at the web page with an explanation of their evolutionary significance, Grande presents an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of the web page, its treasures, and what we’ve learned from them. Grande presents a broad range of fossilized organisms from Fossil Lake—from single-celled algae to palm trees to crocodiles—and together they make this long-extinct community come to life in all its diversity and splendor. A field guide and atlas round out the book, enabling readers to identify and classify the majority of the known fossils from the web page.
 
 
Lavishly produced in full color, The Lost World of Fossil Lake is a stunning reminder of the intellectual and physical great thing about scientific investigation—and a wide ranging window onto our planet’s long-lost past.

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