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On the Web
- Directory of Paleontologists of the World - Searchable on-line database listing personal and professional information for paleontologists around the world.
- Dino Land Paleontologist Interviews - Interviews of several paleontologists from different fields: from dinosaurs to footprints to extinction.
- Spinning Evolution - An interview with paleontologist and author Stephen Jay Gould conducted in 1996, at Online NewsHour. A RealAudio format version of the interview is also available.
- So You Want To Be a Paleontologist? - Advice on how to become a paleontologist and which colleges offer programs in vertebrate paleontology.
- Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette Bone Zone - Short profiles of paleontologists and paleontology authors.
- Florida Fossil Hunters - Devoted to amateur paleontologists who are dedicated to learning about Florida prehistory through its fossil record.Includes information about collecting permits, meetings, and field trips.
- Pioneer Trails Regional Museum - Specializes in paleontology, Native American history, and prairie history. The PTRM conducts field tours where you can dig for dinosaurs and other fossils in the badlands with the museum's paleontologists.
- Dinosaur Journey Museum - Museum in Fuita, Colorado featuring life-like robotic dinosaurs and opportunities to observe paleontologists at work.
- Itano fossil collection - Fossils collected by Wayne Itano, an amateur paleontologist from Boulder, Colorado.
- Cascadia - Provides information on the geology and paleontology of the Northwest United States and Coastal Western Canada. Includes links, photo gallery, and list of books for amateur paleontologists
Wikipedia Articles
- Faunal stage - Faunal stages are subdivisions of rock layers used primarily by paleontologists who study fossils rather than by geologists who study rock formations. Typically, a faunal stage will consist of a series of rocks that contain similar fossils.
- Bioclast - Bioclasts are skeletal fragments of marine or land organisms that are found in sedimentary rocks laid down in a marine environment—especially limestone varieties, some of which take on distinct textures and coloration from their predominate bioclasts—that geologists, archaeologists and paleontologists use to date a rock strata to a particular geological era.
- Heteromorph - Heteromorph is the term used by paleontologists to describe an Ammonite whose shell configuration is not the tight spiral which is typical for the subclass Ammonoidea.
- Asturoceras - Asturoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. It was formally placed in this genus during the year 1969 by paleontologists Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya.
- Valley of the mastodons - "Valley of the Mastodons" is the informal name given to Diamond Valley Lake outside of Hemet, Riverside County, California. The name comes from the large number of fossils of the extinct mastodon, Mammut americanum, discovered by paleontologists from the San Bernardino County Museum during construction of the Lake.