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BENTON, M. J. 2004. Vertebrate Palaeontology, 3rd ed.

xi + 455 pp. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing. Price £29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 632 05637 1.

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Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1990, Mike Benton’s book has become the default general textbook in this field of palaeontology, and the sister volume to Euan Clarkson’s Invertebrate Palaeontology by the same publisher. The format is almost identical to the previous edition, with the minor pedagogical refinement of a brief set of ‘key questions’ at the beginning of each chapter; some change in the range and variety of the informative text-boxes; and a subtle rearrangement of sections within some of the chapters. Armed with these two textbooks you, pretty much, can’t go wrong if you want to direct your students toward formidable and comprehensive sets of information.

Benton’s book obviously has been delicately pruned, refined and updated since its last edition (1997) so that, despite the extraordinary increase in literature on the topic during the past seven years the book seems to . . . [Full Text of this Article]