(Also available in a less expensive black and white edition.) Full color, full page reconstructions of life in Virginia from the Cambrian Period (over 500 million years ago) down to the present day. Includes color drawings of representative living plants and animals as well as fossil specimens. Simplified paleogeographic and geologic maps are provided for each period of Earth’s history that is represented in Virginia’s fossil record. By the author of Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States and many other books about fossils, prehistoric life, and human and natural history.