Early Silurian Trilobites of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada.(Book review)

Publication: Geoscience Canada

Publication Date: 01-MAR-06

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Early Silurian Trilobites of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada

By Brian D. E. Chatterton and Rolf Ludvigsen Palaeontographica Canadiana. No. 22, 2004, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists & Geological Association of Canada ISBN 0-919216-93-5 CDN $109.00, softcover, 264 p.

The latest instalment of Palaeontographica Canadiana contains 85 plates, making it the largest in the series since its inception in 1983. It is adorned with a fine drawing of an ornate odontopleurid trilobite and the cover is a beautiful dark green, adding one more band to the spectacular rainbow these monographs make on the book shelf. Allow me to say from the outset that this review is surely biased, for not only was the second author my doctoral supervisor, but also I have been intimately involved from the beginning with this now venerable monograph series. Pal Can is so wonderfully a feast of Canadian palaeontology and a tribute to Canadian palaeontologists.

Publication of the first monograph in the series was a singular event, a splendid volume in pewter-coloured wraps by Brian Chatterton on silicified Silurian trilobites and edited by Roll Ludvigsen. Its launch was celebrated boisterously at the Mining Building of University of Toronto by the city's palaeontological elite with...

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