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24 May 2015 Back in March when we were in Florida we stopped in Gainesville at the state's natural history museum. It's a pretty excellent one; well worth the trip. While there I picked up a book of the place, Richard C. Hulbert's Fossil Vertebrates of Florida. It's primarily a descriptive text, with many pictures of fossils and information about where they were collected. Discussion of the animals' lives, their ecological assemblages, etc. is not present. Thus it gets a bit dry with page after page of teeth pictures described by latin terms. While said teeth are described in detail, the diets these various dentitions imply is, however, left out. I suppose a including more could have increased the size and scope of the text beyond managability, but I believe sacrificing exhaustiveness (all genera found in Florida are described) could also have alleviated this and made for a more interesting read. Of course, if you like looking at pictures and diagrams of fossils then this isn't one to miss. |
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