A Sea Without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region by David L Meyer;Richard Arnold Davis (9780253351982)
David L Meyer;Richard Arnold Davis
Release Date: 01 February 2009 Format: Hardback Pages: 346 Category: Palaeontology Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253351982 ISBN-10: 0253351987
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years agosome 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of the world's most abundant and best-preserved fossils of invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites.