paleo textbooks

[Farlow@ipfw.edu]

     For the need thread of what paleo texts to use, here's my input:
     
     For my intro paleo course I'm using Donald R. Prothero, 1998, Bringing 
     Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleontology, WCB/McGraw-Hill.  
     The first half of the book is principles of paleontology, which I use 
     for the lecture part of my class, and the second half runs through 
     various groups of invertebrates and vertebrates, and so is nice for my 
     lab, which does a group-by-group survey.  I hven't finished going 
     through the book carefully, but I like what I've seen so far.  My only 
     complaint is poor coverage of paleobotany, which I hope Prothero will 
     rectify in a future edition.  I could be staying with this book for 
     quite a while.
     
     I'm CCing this message to Don Prothero, so that he will be aware of 
     the fact that a)  I like his book a lot, but b)  I want some plants, 
     both in the principles part and in the systematic part.