Some people just love ammonites. For anyone who collects, studies, or wonders about the plentiful and wide-ranging specimens found in the Pierre Shale, this book is a must-have. Although published in 1997, Ammonites and other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway still stands as the most comprehensive volume of its kind, successfully collating and superseding scholarly publications that came before it. Ammonites gathered and corrected previously published information from a wide range of experts and organizations, single-handedly expanding our collective understanding of a diverse group of often similar creatures.

If you are looking for one book that documents the Pierre Shale’s cephalopod populations as they were known from the beginning of ammonite fever through the end of the twentieth century, this is it. Readers can still rely on its detailed scientific illustrations, charts, comprehensive family trees, information on sexual dimorphism, and descriptions of then-new species. Please note: only a limited supply of this affordable paperback remain. Make sure to add this to your library!

$27.98 Hardcover and $24.95 Softvcover MSRP