Ten of the best fossils in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best fossils in literature.One novel on the list:Oscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyThe first part of this novel draws on Gosse's Father and Son, depicting Oscar and his father Theophilus as members of a fundamentalist sect in Devon, and also devoted naturalists. Oscar's father collects and classifies fossils, determined to use them to disprove the