Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Deep Time in the Cordillera -- 2 Fossils and Museums: Windows into Ancient Worlds -- 3 The Origin and Evolution of Canada's Western Mountains -- 4 Lower Cambrian Trilobites: Most Ancient Mariners -- 5 The Trilobite Beds of Mount Stephen, Yoho National Park -- 6 The Burgess Shale: A Spectacular Cambrian Bestiary -- 7 The Microscopic World of Conodonts -- 8 Mesozoic Radiolarians of Haida Gwaii -- 9 Fishes of the Triassic: Trawling off Pangaea -- 10 Ammonoids and Bivalves: Triassic Life at Sea -- 11 Ammonoids: Itinerants of the Jurassic -- 12 On the Trail of Cretaceous Dinosaurs -- 13 Ancient Saurians: Cretaceous Reptiles of Vancouver Island -- 14 Mollusks: Exotic Shells from Cretaceous Seas -- 15 Plant Life during the Great Cretaceous Transformation -- 16 Paleogene Mammals on Land and at Sea -- 17 Fishes from Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- 18 Insects near Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- 19 Flowering Plants in and around Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- 20 Eocene Conifers of the Interior -- 21 Quaternary Animals: Vertebrates of the Ice Age -- 22 Late Pleistocene Salmon of Kamloops Lake -- 23 Quaternary Plants: Glimpses of Past Climates and Landscapes -- 24 Epilogue: The Cordillera through the Mists of Time -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.