GEOL 331 Principles of Paleontology

Fall Semester 2008
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Dr. Holtz's Linked List of online paleontological journals

Evolution, Paleontology & Systematics

The Paleobiology Database

The Invertebrate Paleontology Image Gallery of the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology homepage, with exhibits

Excellent comprehensive site about Trilobites, the "poster children" for the Paleozoic!

An Introduction to Ichnology, the study of trace fossils

"Getting Into the Fossil Record", an introductory exercise about taphonomy from UCMP

"What Did T. rex Taste Like?", an interactive online exhibit on cladistics from UCMP

The Tree of Life Project, an online attempt to map out the phylogenetic relationships of all organisms living and extinct

UCMP Phylogeny Exhibit, a less technical equivalent of the Tree of Life Project

The Tree-Thinking Group

Darwin and Wallace's 1858 paper

The Origin of Species, online text

Stratigraphy and Geologic Time

"Understanding Geologic Time", an online interactive introductory exercise from the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)

Stratigraphy Exhibit of UCMP

The International Commission on Stratigraphy; note especially:

Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics

Global Earth History website of paleogeographic reconstructions by Northern Arizona University geology professor Dr. Ron Blakey. Note especially:


Paleomap Project of University of Chicago geology professor Chris Scotese

ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service

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