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Title: Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques.
Description: Following his classic work in the Paris Basin (see History in the Layers of the Earth), Alexandre Brongniart continued to investigate and establish the principles of geohistorical investigation with works such as his Natural History of Crustacean Fossils (Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques, 1822). In the image shown here, Brongniart focused on the peculiar trilobites, an extinct marine arthropod that somewhat resembles the extant horseshoe crab. He demonstrated that the “transition” rocks that hosted these fossils, represented a quite different and stranger world than our modern one. Trilobite species still serve a crucial role in modern Earth sciences for delineating the Cambrian period of the geologic record (542-485 million years ago).
Call Number (click link to view in library catalog): Q. 565.3 B86H
See Also: Full Text Available at Gale Primary Sources
Authors: Brongniart, Alexandre
Full Title: Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques
Date: 1822
From the Exhibit: In Search of Lost Time: Fossils and the Record of Previous Worlds
Publisher: Chez. F.G. Levrault
Location: Paris
Language: French
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Type: Text
Medium: Book
Bibliographic Citation: Brongniart, Alexandre. Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques. Paris: Chez. F.G. Levrault, 1822.

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In Search of Lost Time