This is a page from Greenworld, by Dougal Dixon known for his speculative evolution books like the seminal After Man: A Zoology of the Future. Unfortunately, the two-volume work detailing the prolonged human impact on an alien planet had been published only in Japan:
I hope there is going to be an English version. I haven't even heard of this until I stumbled upon an interview with Dixon by Darren Neish which I recommend to read. Dixon and Neish discuss the creation of After Man and its spin-offs, the complications of getting it published, the new Greenworld book, and assorted tasty paleontology. There are illustrations aplenty, including Dixon's sketches and even maquettes.
Incidentally, Dixon called Man After Man a "disaster of a project" in that interview. This makes me glad: the thing is as abysmal as After Man is delightful, and this dismissal demonstrates his true integrity. He didn't give detail on that, but you can catch hints of him being co-opted into a spin-off which went into ludicrous deviations he was not happy with.
Go read the interview.
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