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New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985. Well illustrated with full page colour plates by Frank Knight and black and white photograpgs, tall quarto, pp 284, very slight foxing to the fore-edge otherwise extremely clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. [According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as "Kadimakara" once lived in a "roof" of vegetation over Central Australia, occasionally foraging for foods in the "lower" world. These Aborigines believed that on one occasion, when the Kadimakara's path back to their home was cut off, they were obliged to roam on earth until they died in Lake Eyre. Their bones, the Aborigines thought, became what we know as fossils. In the richly illustrated volume Kadimakara, pioneers of the bourgeoning field of Australian fossil research provide a broad overview of vertebrate history in that country. Offering a wealth of information on how…
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Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia Hardcover - 1991
by Pat Vickers Rich (Editor); Gerard F. Van Tets (Editor)
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- Title Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia
- Author Pat Vickers Rich (Editor); Gerard F. Van Tets (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Second Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date February 1991
- ISBN 9780691087337 / 0691087334
- Weight 3.5 lbs (1.59 kg)
- Dimensions 12.34 x 8.8 x 1.18 in (31.34 x 22.35 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90008846
- Dewey Decimal Code 566.099
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New Jersey, Princeton University Press. 1990. Original publisher's dark-red paper-covered boards, white title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 2nd printing [1985], large 4to: 284pp.,very richly illustrated with coloured platesmaps - photographs - drawings, list of names vertebrate palaeontologists in Australia, references, index.
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