The Back to the Past Museum Guide to Trilobites II

About this book

This book takes the reader through all aspects of trilobite life over their 300 million years in the Earth’s oceans, from the first ever to appear in the Cambrian to the final extant members of the Permian. It expands upon the authors’ seminal 2010 work, The Back to the Past Museum Guide to Trilobites (originally published in Italian as Trilobiti: il Libro del Museo in 2009), including extensively updated sections on trilobites’ origins, morphology, and palaeoecology. What Trilobites II shows about these creatures is just how extensive their reach really was: the formations Bonino and Kier cover in this book span the entire world. Specimens from The Back to the Past Museum as well as the Smithsonian, the Geological Survey of Canada, Chicago’s Field Museum, and numerous spectacular private collections showcase the diversity of form trilobites have. It includes over 160 pages of gorgeous full-colour photographs of these ancient arthropods, many from the museum’s own collection, organized by the formations in which they were discovered. It is an essential addition to any trilobite lover’s collection, be they a professional palaeontologist or even a beginning collector, combining excellent science and compelling narration into one of the most comprehensive books on trilobites to date.

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Biography

The Back to the Past Museum (BPM) is the world’s first museum dedicated solely to trilobites, located in Cancún, Mexico.

Enrico Bornino is an Italian-born, Belgium-based cartographer with expensive digital publication experience.

Carlo Kier is an avid trilobite collector who first found his love for them while working with the Milan Museum of Natural History in the 1970s and helped develop the BPM collection.