''Basic Palaeontology'' is a basic textbook on the study of

paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

written by the palaeontologists

Michael J. Benton Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences ...

and David A.T. Harper, and published by

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in 1997. It was described in a 1998 review by palaeontologist

Mark Purnell Mark Andrew Purnell is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. Purnell is an expert in conodont biostratigraphy (principally Carboniferous) and conodont palaeobiology, focussing especially on atte ...

as being uniquely inclusive in its coverage of the subject, going into detail about the history of the science as well as methodology and other aspects. The book was described as having significant, "broad" coverage, but not as much "depth", making it a potential resource for students and researchers looking to find more-detailed references.

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Paleontology books 1997 non-fiction books 1997 in paleontology {{paleo-book-stub