Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occur- rences and Rarely Sampled Habitats,

The Eocene is a unique interval in earth history, characterized by pro-found faunal turnovers, pronounced climate changes, and an atypically rich, global, terrestrial faunal record. The impetus for Eocene Biodiversi-ty: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats, as well as for a symposium of the same name at the 1998 Society of Vertebrate Paleon-tology meeting in Snowbird, Utah, resulted from the recognition that al-though most Eocene fossil occurrences are from similar preservational and depositional settings, a growing number of unique occurrences (un-usual depositional or geographical settings) characterize the Eocene. This book is both an exceptional reference for Eocene researchers as well as a friendly introduction for the newcomer. The sixteen chapters, out-lined below, are authored by an international groupof specialistsandare, as a whole, well written and organized in a clear, consistent manner.This volume has two aims: to document rare and exceptional Eocene faunal occurrences and to compare these non-traditional fossil samples wit