The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Illustrations : b&w illus
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The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of paleontology in America. The volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the American mastodon led him to champion the study of fossil vertebrates. The book continues with vivid descriptions of prospecting for fossils and offers enthralling portraits of leading American paleontologists including Joseph Leidy, Ferdinand Hayden, Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh, among other major figures in the development of the science of palaeontology.
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