The taphonomic approach within paleontology, archaeology, and paleoanthropology continues to produce advances in understanding postmortem biochemical and morphological transformations…
Book Category: Paleontology
Collection of books on Paleontology, the study of life-forms existing in prehistoric or geologic times, as represented by the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms
Vertebrate Taphonomy
In recent years archaeologists and paleontologists have become increasingly interested in how and why vertebrate animal remains become, or do not become, fossils…
Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology (Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology series)
One of the first interdisciplinary discussions of taphonomy (the study of how fossil assemblages are formed) and paleoecology..
Taphonomy: A Process Approach (Cambridge Paleobiology Series)
This book offers a comprehensive review of the entire field of taphonomy, the science of fossil preservation…
Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains
Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by archaeologists and paleontologists..
Trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Behavioral diversification, ecological turnover and environmental shift [An article from: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology] [HTML]
This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier..
The Study of Trace Fossils: A Synthesis of Principles, Problems, and Procedures in Ichnology
Excerpt from Customer Review: A Somewhat Dated, But Still Useful, Introduction to Trace Fossils…..
Ichnology & Sedimentology Of Shallow To Marginal Marine Systems (Short Course Notes)
Excerpt from Customer Review: This book provides a large number of diagrams and photographs to help illustrate trace fossils and how they affect the sediment…
High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)
Bioerosion is the major force driving the degradation of marine skeletal carbonates and limestone coasts…
Ichnology of New England
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s preservation reformatting program…
Ichnology Of The Upper Cambrian? To Lower Ordovician Bell Island & Wabana Groups Of Eastern Newfoundland (Palaeontographica Canadiana)
Ichnology Of The Upper Cambrian? To Lower Ordovician Bell Island & Wabana Groups Of Eastern Newfoundland (Palaeontographica Canadiana) by D. Fillion and R. K. Pickerill..
The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental And Stratigraphic Analysis (Geological Society Special Publication)
This volume aims to provide an analytical review of the ichnology of all major depositional environments and the use of ichnology in biostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic analysis, as well as highly refined palaeoenvironmental studies…
The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World
In Jurassic Park, amber fossils provided the key to bringing dinosaurs back to life…
The Miocene Purple Mountain Flora of Western Nevada (University of California Publications in Geological Sciences)
In this study, nine florules from the Chloropagus Formation near Fernley, Nevada, are dated at 14.7-13.4 million years…
Quaternary Environments
The second edition of this authoritative introduction to the global environmental fluctuations of the Quaternary period has been thoroughly revised and updated..
Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals
Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land—from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture…
PaleoBase: Macrofossils, Part 3 (Single User)
PaleoBase represents a unique combination of up-to-date systematic information on an extensive collection of fossil genera, state-of-the-art color digital photographs of representative specimens from The Natural History Museum’s unrivalled paleontologic..
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt…
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth’s History
The gorgons ruled the world of animals long before there was any age of dinosaurs…
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt: The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Paleontological Discoveries
“The sometimes perilous search for rare dinosaur bones can make for great adventures, as evidenced in The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt.” —Discover..
On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
Living fossils are species that have survived nearly unchanged since prehistoric times…
The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia
The Rise of Animals — a significant reference providing a comprehensive synthesis of the early radiation of the animal kingdom — fully captures this moment in geologic time…
Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
This new edition of a successful textbook describes and explains in a refreshingly clear way the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record..
Petrified Wood : The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads
176 pages with 430 full color photographs of some of the most beautiful fossil specimens in existence…
Fossil Plants (Living Past)
An amazing look at plants of the past through an examination of the fossils that remain…
Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood
Perhaps the most intriguing, beautiful, and informative fossil wood book of all time, exploring the subject with images to illustrate each point..
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History
Plants have transformed our planet over the last 470 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today…
Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
Excerpt from Customer Reviews: This very fine invertebrate paleontology textbook strikes a nice balance between focus on the paleobiology/taxonomy of the organisms and theoretical topics in the science…
Ammonites and the Other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway: Identification Guide (Fossils & Dinosaurs)
This fascinating little book is quite unlike others that academics are asked to review…
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
‘tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels…
The Fossils of the Burgess Shale
You might think a listing of the fossils found in a single site would not be all that interesting, but the Burgess Shale collection is extraordinary…
Trilobites
Long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, there were trilobites—one of the most striking animals to populate prehistoric seas and whose fossils are favorites among collectors today…
Eyewitness: Fossil
Here is an original and exciting new look at fossils — the remains of long-vanished animals and plants…
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils
This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop form..
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling…
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
The most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life…
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of Homo sapiens and its colorful precursors and relatives…
Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology
This book has got to be one of the finest introductory paleontonlogy books on the market…
The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs
Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur paleobiology, such as "warm-bloodedness," birds as liv..
The Earth Through Time
This best-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology…