Resources for Further Research
Although it can be difficult to find reliable and readable websites for the general reader, you might want to check out some of the following sites to further your research into paleontology.
Websites
- The Fossil Museum
- Geologic Time - The Story of a Changing Earth
- The Geological Society of America
- Geological Time Machine
- Palaeos
- The Paleontology Portal
- Pterosaur.net
Books
| Author | Title | Publication Information |
|---|---|---|
| Bakker, Robert | Dinosaur Heresies | William Morrow Company, Inc. 1986 |
| Beerling, David | The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History | Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Benton, Michael | When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass
Extinction of All Time |
Thames and Hudson, 2003 |
| Erwin, Douglas | Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago | Princeton University Press, 2006 |
| Erwin, Douglas | The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian | Columbia University Press, 1993 |
| Fastovsky, David and
Weishampel, David |
The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs | Oxford University Press, 1996 |
| Fortey, Richard | Trilobite Eyewitness to Evolution | Vintage Press, 2001 |
| Hallam, Tony | Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions | Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Hallam, Tony | Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath | Oxford University Press, 1997 |
| Holtz, Thomas | Dinosaurs: The Most Complete,
Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages |
Random, 2007 |
| Lane, Nick | Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Levin, Harold | The Earth Through Time | John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2006 |
| Monks, Neale and Palmer, Philip | Ammonites | Smithsonian Books, 2002 |
| Prothero, Donald and Robert Dott |
Evolution of the Earth | McGraw Hill, 2004 (seventh edition) |
| Rogers, Kristina and Wilson, Jeffrey |
The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology | University of California Press, 2005 |
| Unwin, David | The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time | PI Press, 2006 |
| Van Andel, Tjeerd | New Views on an Old Planet | CambridgeUniversity Press, 1994 (Second edition) |
| Ward, Peter | Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere | Joseph Henry Press, 2006 |
| Ward, Peter | Under a Green Sky | Smithsonian Press, 2007 |
