From the Foreword:
"Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all
organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and
evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the
fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled
web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a
group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey
interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the
information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a
standard reference on which future study of one of the central dynamics
of ecology as seen in the fossil record will be built."
(Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of
the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)