Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / May 2005

Hi

I'm no academic, but I am fascinated with everything Cambrian/Devonian
since I was very young, the imagery especially. I'm an artist who also
dabbles in 3D representations of life from those periods, outside of
more 'modern' design work. I recently read about 'The Cambrian Fossils
of Chengjiang' in an old issue of Nature magazine, a book review
specifically, and the article has me intrigued. I know there is a
large amount of illustrations and about a score of colour plates
within the book but I was wondering if anyone could elaborate on it
more and in particular the illustration/artwork within.

I'm particularly interested in line drawings and/or break downs of
exoskeletal features or the like, rare as they are, and scene
paintings/artist attempts to capture the moment, so to speak. Where I
live there is barely any access available to me of books on
paleontology other than the children's section at a local library and
I don't have much to go on other than what I read online so I'd be
buying this from Amazon. Their online preview didn't hint too much at
the internal pages.

Any help would be appreciated, or if anyone could recommend other
books with good visual accompaniment that would be great.

Thanks,
Leonard Shrubsall