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# Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past)

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    The Cambrian period was crucial for the development of intelligent life
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2022*

The book is about the Cambrian period, a time some 500 million years ago, when there was an explosion of life forms. But before the Cambrian there was the ediacaran fauna explosion of sorts. The book covers this. In the Cambrian major taxonomic groups, like phyla, came into being, such as arthropods, worm groups, chordates (which is our own phylum, echinoderms, on and on. And these phyla endured, even to the present day. Our Cambrian ancestor, pikaia, evolved to produce numerous animals and us humans.The book is dry reading, in parts where it goes into too much textbook detail about stratigraphy. I skimmed through those pages. I was particularly interested in the discussion of the Burgess Shale in Canada, a site I have visited -- a long hike in and out on a narrow trail strewn with rocks and gnarly tree roots. The site at the time was being worked by a paleontologist and students. Lots of specimens were discovered in the shale over the years. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller there was a museum I visited. One of the exhibits was of life in the Cambrian ocean, with the animal mockups being shown larger than life. Animals like anomalocaris, reputed to be the great white shark of its time.I'm very much into paleontology, but the reader doesn't need that background to enjoy and learn from this book.

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    Not for beginners, but biostratigraphers will be more than happy with this book
  

*by D***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2016*

It pains me to give this book just four stars but it is more properly a study of the biostratigraphy of the Cambrian Era, mostly in the United States and although pelagic forms are discussed, the book more concentrates on benthic creatures. The stress is hardly oceanic: more like close inshore areas, alluvial fans, and shallow cratonic transgressions.It takes over 100 pages to get to the discussion of animals in some detail and then, again too much concentration on stratigraphy. Yes, that's important or even crucial, but the life forms themselves are shortchanged in favor of the rocks. Trilobites receive their due but the discussions seem interminable and, for example, too little is made of the incredible variety of eyes these creatures had. I was hoping for detail on such marvelous creatures like Wiwaxia, Marella, and the impossible-to-conceive Opabinia. They're all there but there isn't much new here.Not all is this way. Foster, in talking about the wide array of trilobites found in situ altogether, sensibly suggests that the array bespeaks a certainty that the trilobites had many ways of making a living. Another example: Foster casts doubt on the idea that Anomalocaris was probably not 'the terror of the Cambrian seas' as has been posited ever since the creature's various fossilized parts were determined to be from one animal. More likely, considering the mouth plates, the animal was a scavenger or preyed on softer animals. Indeed, bite marks on trilobite fossil could have come from predatory trilobites. I was also happily surprised that Anomalocaris was just one species of an anomalocaridid family.For me, unfortunately, there was little sense of wonder like that in books by Stephen Gould and Simon Conway Morris. That is a personal observation only, as others I am sure will hardly be able to put this book down. One major caveat: this is not a book for beginners but there is a great glossary and extensive suggestions for further reading. 3.5 stars, for me, but 3 stars are not warranted, hence the four star rating posted.

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    A Good Introduction to the Fossel evidence of the Cambrian World
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2020*

This is a nice book that goes a long way to explain the geological periods and the role that fossels play in figuring out the past.  Specifically, it drills down into Cambrian fossels and explains that period and how life evolved.  I wish it had better diagrams to show evolution of various animal groups, but you can get them by searching the Internet with queries like "Evolution of Trilobites" etc.

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