Re: paleo textbooks

[William Gibson Parker <wgp@dana.ucc.nau.edu>]

I'm using this book and enjoy it also (except for the coloring book-like
cover)  It even has an intro to cladistics.

-Bill Parker
Northern Arizona University

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 Farlow@ipfw.edu wrote:

>      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.
>