Indiana University Press is producing an extraordinary variety of texts under their ‘Life of the Past’ series edited by James O. Farlow. They range between rather naïve, poorly edited books on dinosaurs and scholarly tomes written exclusively by acknowledged experts that have the ‘air’ of a more traditional monograph. This falls into the latter category, and is the third to have been produced by Alan Holman (the first having been The Fossil Snakes of North America, the second The Fossil Frogs and Toads of North America).

As with the earlier volumes this is an impressively comprehensive survey of a...

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