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The Old Forge Fossil Shop - Offers fossil material from Lyme Regis, U.K., as well as a general collection of fossils. Also sells fossil collecting supplies and books.
Fossil Collection Laws in Nova Scotia - Brief summary concerning fossil collecting in the Canadian province.
International Palaeontological Association Fossil Collections of the World - Indexed, searchable online database listing information about fossil collections around the world.
Fossils Gallery - Pictures of fossils from private collections.
UCMP Fossil Collections - Includes an online catalog of fossil specimens and documents as well as a data model for collection management from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Fossil Web - A meeting place for professional and amateur paleontologists. Hundreds of color pictures of fossils for fossil identification. Submit your fossils for identification.
Florida Fossil Permit - Permit needed to collect vertebrate fossils in Florida.
Fossils of the New York Bight - Short collection of images of fossils collected from Rockaway Beach (Queens, NY), Staten Island, and Sandy Hook (NJ).
The Fossilguy - Gives information about fossils, fossil collecting, and collecting sites mainly around the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Offers fossil identification help.
Itano fossil collection - Fossils collected by Wayne Itano, an amateur paleontologist from Boulder, Colorado.

Fossil collecting - Fossil collecting describes the extraction of fossilised material for profit, pleasure, or scientific study. Fossils - the preserved remains of long-dead organisms - are found in many places where sedimentary rocks, such as claystones, shales, limestones, and sandstones, are exposed.