Books about Paleontology and Fossils

• Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods: Development and Evolution, Form, Construction, and Function, Taphonomy, Palaeoecology,... by Federico Oloriz Saez
• After the Dinosaurs: A Texas Tropical Paradise Recovered at Lake Casa Blanca by James W. Westgate
• After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals by Donald R. Prothero
• After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou
• The Age of Reptiles by Edwin H. Colbert
• Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas / Manual e Palinologico Da Amazonia by Paul Colinvaux
• Amber by Andrew Ross
• The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World by Roberta Poinar

               

• Amber: Window to the Past by David A. Grimaldi
• American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia by Frederick Hadleigh West
• American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity by Paul Semonin
• Ammonites [hardcover] by Neale Monks
• Ammonites [paperback] by Neale Monks
• Ammonoid Paleobiology by Neil H. Landman
• Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Matthew T. Carrano
• Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood by Frank J. Daniels

                   

• Ancient Invertebrates and Their Living Relatives by Harold L. Levin
• Ancient Life-History of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Paleontological Science [hardcover] by Henry A. Nicholson
• Ancient Life-History of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Paleontological Science [paperback] by Henry A. Nicholson
• Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin: Precambrian to Pleistocene by J. Alan Holman
• Ancient Marine Reptiles by Jack M. Callaway
• Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Vertebrates of Northern North America by C. R. Harington
• Anthropoid Origins by John G. Fleagle
• Anthropoid Origins: New Visions (Developments in Primatology Progress and Prospects) by Callum Ross
• The Antiquity of Man: Artifactual, Fossil and Gene Records Explored by Michael Brass
• Applied Palaeontology by Robert Wynn Jones
• Applied Stratigraphy by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos
• Archetypes and Ancestors: Paleontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875 by Adrian J. Desmond
• The Arkansas Coal Field: With Reports on the Paleontology by Arthur J. Collier
• Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny by Gregory D. Edgecombe
• At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea by Carl Zimmer
• Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved within the Siliciclastic Rock Record by Juergen Schieber

                   

• Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh by Michael Archer
  
  
• Basic Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
• Basic Questions in Paleontology: Geologic Time, Organic Evolution, and Biological Systematics [hardcover] by Otto H. Schindewolf
• Basic Questions in Paleontology: Geologic Time, Organic Evolution, and Biological Systematics [paperback] by Otto H. Schindewolf
• Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution [hardcover] by David Rains Wallace
• Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution [paperback] by David Rains Wallace
• Before the Indians by Bjorn Kurten
• The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary by Kevin Padian
• The Beginning of the Age of Mammals by Kenneth D. Rose
• A Bibliography of Fossil Insects (1882) by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
• Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology by Stanley Hedeen

                   

• The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Mauricio Anton
• Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton by Clark Spencer Larsen
• Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado by Anthony D. Barnosky
• Biogenic Structures of Modern and Fossil Continental Organisms: Using Trace Fossil Morphology to Interpret Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, and Paleoclimate by Daniel I. Hembree
• Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry by Patricia C. Rice
• Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events by Charles Cockell
• Biomineralization and Fossils Through Time by Jean-Pierre Cuif
• The Biosphere by Ian K. Bradbury
• Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands (CA) by L. Barry Albright III
• Biostratigraphy in Production and Development Geology by R. W. Jones
• Biotic Evolution in Plio-Pleistocene Marine Environments of Tropical America: Systematic, Phylogenetic, and Stable Isotope Investigations of the Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) by Gregory S. Herbert
• Biotic Response to Global Change: The Last 145 Million Years by Stephen J. Culver
• Body Size in Mammalian Paleobiology: Estimation and Biological Implications [hardcover] by John Damuth
• Body Size in Mammalian Paleobiology: Estimation and Biological Implications [paperback] by John Damuth
• Bone Hunters in Patagonia: Narrative of the Expedition by John B. Hatcher
• The Bone Hunters: The Discovery of Miocene Fossils in Gray, Tennessee by Harry Moore
• The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds [hardcover] by Wayne Grady
• The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds [paperback] by Wayne Grady
• Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology by Jim Ottaviani
• Bonebeds: Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance [hardcover] by Raymond R. Rogers
• Bonebeds: Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance [paperback] by Raymond R. Rogers
• Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils by Marvin L. Lubenow

           

• Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins by Roger Lewin
• Bones, Stones and Molecules: "Out of Africa" and Human Origins by David Cameron
• Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C. K. (Bob) Brain by Travis R. Pickering
• Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology (1st edition) by Donald R. Prothero
• Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology (2nd edition) by Donald R. Prothero
• The Brown Algal Origin of Land Plants and the Algal Origin of Life on Earth and in the Universe by Anthony J. Miklausen
• Bryozoan Evolution by Frank K. McKinney
• By Design or By Chance: The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe by Denyse O'Leary
  
  
• The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared by Peter Douglas Ward
• The Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage Boundary: Characterisation and Correlation from Tercis-les-Bains (Landes, SW France) to Europe and Other Continents by G. S. Odin

               

• Carbon Dates: A Day by Day Almanac of Paleo Anniversaries and Dino Events by Donald F. Glut
• Catalogue of the Academy Series of Casts of Fossils, from the Principal Museums of Europe and America, With Short Descriptions and Illustrations by Henry A. Ward
• Catalogue of the Fossil Birds in the British Museum (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 1. Containing the Orders Primates, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora, and Rodentia by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 2. Containing the Orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 3. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborders Perissodactyla, Toxodontia, Condylarthra, and Amblypoda by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 4. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborder Proboscidea by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History): Part 5. Containing the Group Tillodontia, the Orders Sirenia, Cetacea, Edentata, Marsupialia, Monotremata, and Supplement by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History): Part 1. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria by Richard Lydekker
• Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Jurassic Flora: Part 1. The Yorkshire Coast. Plates 1-21 by Albert Charles Seward
• Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Wealden Flora: Part 2. Gymnospermæ. Plates 1-20 by Albert Charles Seward
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions [library binding] by Tony Hallam
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions [paperback] by Tony Hallam
• Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond by Christian Koeberl
• Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective by Robert M. Ross
• The Cave Bear Story by Bjorn Kurten
• Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America by Edward J. Petuch
• Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives by Neil H. Landman
• The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology [hardcover] by Gunter Wagner
• The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology [paperback] by Gunter Wagner
• Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert
• Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary by Richard Darwin Keynes
• Charming the Bones: A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert by Ann Brimacombe Elliot
• A Chart Giving an Ideal Section of the Successive Geological Formations With an Actual Geological Section, From the Atlantic, to the Pacific Ocean. The Whole Illustrated by the Characteristic Fossils of Each Formation by James Hall
• Chased by Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep by Nigel Marven
• Chinese Fossil Vertebrates [hardcover] by Spencer Lucas
• Chinese Fossil Vertebrates [paperback] by Spencer Lucas
• Classification of Mammals [hardcover] by Malcolm C. McKenna
• Classification of Mammals [paperback] by Malcolm C. McKenna
• Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm by Gerold Wefer
• The Climate of Past Interglacials by F. Sirocko
• Coccolithophores by Amos Winter
• Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time, 5th Edition by Edwin H. Colbert
• Color Pattern on the Selmacryptodiran Turtle Neurankylus from the Early Paleocene by Robert M. Sullivan

                   

• Common Fossil Plants of Western North America by William D. Tidwell
• Common Fossils of Missouri by A. G. Unklesbay
• Complete Encyclopedia of Fossils by Book Sales Inc.
• The Complete Guide to Michigan Fossils by Joseph J. Kchodl
• The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life by Tim Haines
• The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils of the World by John Farndon
• Computed Tomography for Paleontology and Geology by Richard Ketcham
• Conodont Biology and Phylogeny: Interpreting the Fossil Record (Special Papers in Palaeontology) by Mark A. Purnell
• Contributions To Avian Paleontology From The Pacific Coast Of North America (1912) by Loye Holmes Miller
• Contributions to the Palæontology of Iowa; Being Descriptions of New Species of Crinoidea and Other Fossils by James Hall
• Contributions to the Palæontology of Iowa; Being Descriptions of New Species of Crinoidea and Other Fossils by James Hall
• Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection/on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 by Alfred Russell Wallace
• Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils by J. William Schopf
• The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World by David M. Martill
• Cretaceous Environments of Asia by Hakuyu Okada
• Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates: Special Papers in Paleontology by David M. Unwin
• Cretaceous Rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece by Thomas Steuber
  
  
• Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life by Martin Brasier
• Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic by Nicholas Fraser
• Deep Time: Paleobiology's Perspective by Scott L. Wing
• Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe by John F. Hoffecker

                   

• The Dicynodonts: A Study in Palaeobiology by Gillian King
• Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate by Karolyn Shindler
• Discovering Fossils: How to Find and Identify Remains of the Prehistoric Past by Frank A. Garcia
• The Discovery of Evolution by David Young
• Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History by Xiaoming Wang
• Downtonian and Devonian Vertebrates of Spitsbergen: Family Cephalaspidea by Erik A. Stensio
• Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus by Noel Thomas Boaz
• Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar
• Dragons Of The Air - An Account Of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Harry Govier Seeley
• Droughts, Food and Culture: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory by Fekri A. Hassan
• Dynamical Paleoclimatology: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change by Barry Saltzman
• Dynamics of Mammalian Distribution in the Holocene of Illinois by James R. Purdue
  
  
• Early Life: Evolution on the PreCambrian Earth by Lynn Margulis
• Early Llandovery Crinoids and Stelleroids from the Cataract Group (Lower Silurian in Southern Ontario, Canada) by James D. Eckert
• Early Vertebrates by Philippe Janvier
• The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 by Ralph O'Connor
• Earth Treasures: The Northeastern Quadrant by Allan W. Eckert

               

• Earth Treasures: The Southwestern Quadrant (Volume 4A) by Allan W. Eckert
• Earth Treasures: The Southwestern Quadrant (Volume 4B) by Allan W. Eckert
• Ecce Homo: Writings in Honour of Third-Millenium Man by Donald Johanson
• Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera by John W. Murray
• Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles by John L. Cloudsley-Thompson
• The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation [hardcover] by A. Iu Zhuravlev
• The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation [paperback] by A. Iu Zhuravlev
• Eduard Bruckner: The Sources and Consequences of Climate Change and Climate Variability in Historical Times by Eduard Bruckner
• The Emergence of Animals: The Cambrian Breakthrough by Mark A. S. McMenamin
• The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology by Pier Luigi Luisi
• Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments by Vivien Gornitz
• Encyclopedia of Paleontology by Ronald Singer
• Encyclopedia of Prehistory by David Lambert
• Environmental Change [hardcover] by Andrew Goudie
• Environmental Change [paperback] by Andrew Goudie

               

• Environmental Micropaleontology: The Application of Microfossils to Environmental Geology by Ronald E. Martin
• Eocene Biodiversity - Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats by Gregg F. Gunnell
• Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura Country, California by Richard L. Squires
• The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost [hardcover] by Donald R. Prothero
• The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost [paperback] by Donald R. Prothero
• The Eocene Thunder Mountain Flora of Central Idaho by Daniel I. Axelrod
• Erect Men/Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, 'Race' and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution by Melanie G. Wiber
• The Essential Atlas of Fossils and Minerals by Parramon Studios
• Establishing a Baseline Paleontological Inventory Database for the Permian Reef Geology Trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas by Kirsten Lund
• The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
• The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution by Martin Lockley
• Etudes Critiques Les Mollusques Fossiles: Memoire Les Trigonies Et Monographic Des Myes (Critical Studies on Fossil Mollusks) by Louis Agassiz
• European Neogene Mammal Chronology by Everett H. Lindsay
• Evolution by Monroe W. Strickberger
• Evolution and Classification of Paleozoic Crinoids by Raymond C. Moore
• Evolution and Systemics of Cenozoic American Turitellidae (Gastropoda) by W. D. Allmon
• The Evolution of Artiodactyls by Donald R. Prothero
• Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems by Paul A. Selden
• The Evolution of Gryphaea by Stephen Jay Gould
• Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Perspectives from the Fossil Record [hardcover] by Hans-Dieter Sues
• Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Perspectives from the Fossil Record [paperback] by Hans-Dieter Sues
• The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe by Jordi Agusti
• The Evolution of Plant Physiology by Alan Hemsley

                   

• The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas by Raymond L. Bernor
• Evolution on Planet Earth: Impact of the Physical Environment by Lynn Rothschild
• The Evolution Revolution by Ken McNamara
• Evolution: The History of an Idea by Peter J. Bowler
• Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
• Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Ostracoda: Theme 3 of the 13th International Symposium on Ostracoda by David J. Horne
• Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction by V. Courtillot
• Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Interplay of Selection, Accident, Neutrality, and Function by James P. Crutchfield
• Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters by Frederick S. Szalay
• Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines by Frederick Grine
• Evolutionary Paleoecology [hardcover] by Warren D. Allmon
• Evolutionary Paleoecology [paperback] by Warren D. Allmon

               

• Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record by Alan H. Cheetham
• Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene by Ross H. Nehm
• Evolutionary Tempo and Mode of the Bivalve Congeria in Late Miocene Deposits of Lake Pannon, Central Europe by Hilary Claire Sanders
• Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna [hardcover] by Alan Turner
• Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna [paperback] by Alan Turner
• Exceptional Fossil Preservation [hardcover] by David J. Bottjer
• Exceptional Fossil Preservation [paperback] by David J. Bottjer
• Exceptionally Preserved Conchostracans and Other Crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland by Patrick J. Orr
• Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture by Wiktor Stoczkowski
• Exploring Rocks, Minerals, Fossils in Colorado by Richard Maxwell Pearl
• Exploring the Borderlands: Documents of the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, and Systematics by Joe Cain
• Extinct by Anton Gill
• Extinction by Michael Boulter
• Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds by David W. Steadman
• Extinction and Phylogeny by Michael J. Novacek
• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup
• Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago by Douglas H. Erwin
• The Extinction of Sivapithecus: Faunal and Environmental Changes Surrounding the Disappearance of a Miocene Hominoid in the Siwaliks of Pakistan) by Sherry V. Nelson
• Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences by R. D. E. MacPhee
• Extinctions in the History of Life by Paul Taylor

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