Acknowledgements
Sources
Foreword (by Professor David A.T. Harper, Durham University)
Introduction
Getting started:
1. How to collect
2. Where to collect
3. What to collect
4. The field notebook
5. Measuring sections (and why)
6. The Law of Superposition
7. Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Siliciclastics
8. Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Limestones, cherts and coals
9. Reworked fossils
10. Fossils as way-up structures
11. Fossils as current indicators
12. Your palaeontological library
13. Fossils in caves
14. Beachcombing
15. Common sense in the field
16. Collecting with a camera
17. Buying specimens
Some theoretical aspects:
18. Palaeoecology 1: The organism
19. Palaeoecology 2: Organism meets organism
20. Palaeoecology 3: Getting more information from the bed
21. Preservation 1: Fossilization
22. Preservation 2: Death
23. Preservation 3: Disarticulation, transport and residence
24. Preservation 4: Burial and diagenesis
25. Trace fossils
Working on your collection at home:
26. Storage
27. Labelling
28. Photography at home
29. Drawing
30. Specializing in your favourite fossil group
31. Writing descriptions
32. Casting from natural moulds
33. Problems with preservation. The wider field: getting involved
34. Collaboration
35. Scientific societies
36. Conferences
37. Journals and magazines
38. Offprints, PDFs and filing
39. Visiting museums
40. Ideas for further involvement
41. Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved
42. Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing
43. Publishing III: How to publish a new species
Fossils in many fields:
44. The field guide
45. Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands
46. Field trip: The Piltdown Trail
47. Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk
48. Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire
49. Field trip: Queen Victoria’s bathing beach, Isle of Wight
50. Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe
51. Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire
52. Field trip: Antigua
Glossary
Index