Paleontology

Information about fossils, book reviews, photographic images, and Paleolist, a free email-based discussion list.

Provides articles summarising research findings in archaeology, anthropology and paleontology, written for a general audience.

Provides some notes on Baltic amber, a resin produced some 30 to 40 million years ago by the now extinct pine tree, Pinus succinifera.

Links to paleontology sites, information about paleontology, and scientifically accurate dinosaur t-shirts

North American Paleontological Convention, June 26 - July 1, 2001 University of California, Berkeley.

A database of British Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta), including information on habitat, distribution, and fossil occurrence, along with their bibliographic references. Database available for download in Microsoft Access format.

Forum with galleries, location map and a chat room. Boards include general, fossil discussion, locations, geology and the media.

Uses patented technology to produce durable shaker boxes, shaker tripods and other equipment for paleontologists and fossil hunters.

Includes information on research into fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and geologic specimens, the scientists involved and how the law applies to fossil collecting.

The aim of the Journal of Taphonomy is to facilitate the academic spread of information that is basic to the interpretation of past systems of biotic interaction. Provides submission and subscription information.

Information from Wikipedia on the study of decaying organisms over long periods of time. This process involves the transition of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere as they become fossilized.

Images and information about dinosaur genera as well as some non-dinosaur vertebrate taxa.

A series of dinosaur cartoons drawn by the creator of the comic Zark!

An interview with Barbara Page, painter of "Rock of Ages, Sands of Time" a 544-panel installation at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre's webpage on two of Australia's few Cenozoic fossil assemblages and their information on the evolution of Australia's climate and mammals and the relations that humans have had with Australia's prehistoric fauna.

International contact group which tries to link professional paleontologists with advanced amateurs to further mutual contact and cooperation.

Article on a new discovered bird species from the late Paleogene of Poland, and how it extends the known diversity of avians recovered from Eastern Europe's Paleogene basin.

An introduction (with a map and photos) to the Ediacaran fossils of Canada.

Very comprehensive database on all fossil North American mammal localities and faunas. Link to systematics database with systematic, phylogenetic and body mass data of mammals.

Information on current and past hypotheses on dinosaur extinctions from the University of California Paleontology Museum.

85 percent of all species died in the K-T extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. This article provides information on the geological setting, the species affected and the possible causes of the event.

Short video showing rock layers being laid down during the Permian and Triassic periods, and background information on the mass extinctions that occurred at this time.

Short biography of Lyme Regis's most famous fossil hunter.

Eocene fossils, particularly those of early horses, can be found at Grube Messel.

Photographs and information on terebratulids, rhynchonellids and spiriferids.

Provides photographs and information on echinoids, or sea urchins, the arrival of regular species in the fossil record in the Cambrian and the appearance of irregular ones in the Jurassic.

Information about echinoderms in Australia including their biology, anatomy, behaviour, reproduction, predators, prey and ecology.

A free graptolite researcher and a Rosicrucian Frater. Research interests, primarily in sessile graptolites and pterobranchs, and publications.

Stolonoid graptolites discussed as rhabdopleurids.

Back-scattered electron microscopy technique applied to study graptolitic material - BSEM image of Psigraptus.

Photographs and information on Siphonia subglobosa and Siphonia tubulosa and some photomicrographs showing typical tetraclones and one dermal dichotriaene of Siphonia tubulosa.

Reef foraminifera morphology and paleoecology, University of Southern Florida.

This organisation promotes international co-operation in the study of paleobotany, including palynology. Provides information on the organisation, the newsletter, meetings, publications and the members area.

Worldwide research and consultancy in palynology and organic petrology at Trinity College Dublin, especially on the Devonian and Carboniferous. Ph.D. projects and publications.

A collection of Palynology links.

Provides models and detailed replicas of fossil and archaeological specimens.

Offers fossils, fossil replicas, skulls and related science education materials.

Information about a studio that produces and sells prehistoric wildlife art, model kits, and sculpture. Also contains information about commissions.

An international journal of palaeontology and stratigraphy from publisher Taylor and Francis.

This Newsletter is published twice a year by the Micropalaeontological Society (based in London, UK).

A journal of animal and plant traces

Provides information on an exhibition of Late Miocene fossils from the Western Region.

Information from Wikipedia on this class of reptiles which includes the tortoises, turtles and terrapins.

Information from Wikipedia on this group of extinct chordates resembling eels, their description, ecology, classification and their fossil teeth.

Information from Wikipedia on this family of reptiles from the late Triassic, characterized by their distinctive triangular skulls which resemble the skulls of birds.

Illustration of this crocodile-like diapsid from the Upper Triassic, its description and some photographs.

Extensive information about the dinosaurs from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Web published article with ideas and art about dinosaurs.

Dinosaur blog with illustrations and information on a number of species.

An alphabetical listing by author of published papers about ichthyosaurs, marine turtles, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.