On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
Peter Ward 1992 W.H. Freeman and Co.

This book reviews modern survivors of lineages greatly reduced by mass extinctions and discusses why those lineages got hit so much harder than others. Examples include the chambered nautilus, horseshoe crabs, and the coelocanth.

ISBN 0-7167-2488-X
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This resource is referenced here:

• Integrating Research and Education:Cretaceous: Paleontology
• Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Earth History Approach: Popular Science Books

Subject: Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Book
Focus on the Cretaceous: Paleontology
Topics: Biosphere, Time/Earth History
Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Geologic TimeKeywords: Earth history, evolution, mass extinction