Title Information

WEITSCHAT, Wolfgang & Wilfried WICHARD: Atlas of Plants and Animals in Baltic Amber 2002. [in English] – 256 pp., 92 color-plates with 594 figures, 31 color and 93 black-and-white figures in the text. 29.0 x 21.7 cm. Hard cover ISBN 978-3-931516-94-9 Euro 75.00 Book OUT OF PRINT CD edition (PDF) available: Euro 75.00 Informations: PDF order

Abstract

This atlas opens a window onto the world of Baltic amber and the Eocene amber forests. About 650 typical plants and animals are systematically represented in 92 full-page color plates. The detailed text and bibliography allow an up-to-date overview of the taxonomy, paleontology and biology of fossil plants and animals.

This book will not only delight everyone interested in Baltic amber and its fascinating inclusions but also serves as an authoritative reference book to the scientific community.

Authors

Dr. Wolfgang WEITSCHAT is lecturer and curator at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute and Museum at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of research are the palaeobiology of ammonoids and the palaeontology of the fossils from the Baltic amber.

Dr. Wilfried WICHARD is Full Professor of the Institute of Biology and its Didactic at the University of Cologne. His main fields of research are the evolutionary biology of insects, mainly water insects, and the palaeobiology of insects from the Baltic amber.

Reviews appeared in:

	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47 (3): 420, 2002
	Fossilien, Heft 2 März/April 2003, p. 77-78
	Geological Magazine, 139/5 – 2002, p. 597
	Mikrokosmos, 92/1, p. 60
	geologica acta, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2003, p. 146-150
	Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, 123 (2003) 347-348
	Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, Nr. 9 · Sept. 2002, p. 96-98
	Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil II, Jahrgang 2002, Heft 3/4, p. 252-254
	DGaaE Nachrichten, 17. Jahrgang, Heft 2, Mai 2003, p. 86
	Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil II, Jahrgang 2003, Heft 1/2, p. 65-66
	NATURE, Vol. 417, 20 June 2002, p. 793
	Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel, Vol. 53 (2/3) 2003, S. 91-92