Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Foreword xix
5. Foreword xxi
6. 1 The Aristocratic Ammonite 1
7. 2 Orders and Disorder 21
8. 3 Named for a God 35
9. 4 Ammonites Are Tools to Mark Time 57
10. 5 Death and Fossilization 79
11. 6 Calcite and Aragonite 99
12. 7 The Animal in the Ammonite Shell 113
13. 8 Size Matters between Ammonites 135
14. 9 What Ammonites Ate 149
15. 10 What Ate Ammonites 163
16. 11 Heteromorphs Are a Wacky Part of Evolution 179
17. 12 Ammonites Are Sacred 191
18. 13 They Arrived After One Extinction and Expired from Another 213
19. 14 What You End Up Collecting 229
20. Closing Words 249
21. Epilogue 251
22. Acknowledgments and Thank Yous 253
23. Bibliography/Additional Resources 257
24. Index 287