Books about Paleontology and Fossils - N-Z

• National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils by Ida Thompson
• Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective by Clive Finlayson
• Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Western Asia by Takeru Akazawa
• Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavioral Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity by Donald O. Henry
• The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers by Juan Luis Arsuaga
• Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives by Katerina Harvati
• Nearshore Marine Paleoclimatic Regions, Increasing Zoogeograpic Provinciality, Molluscan Extinctions, and Paleoshorelines, California: Late Oligocene by Clarence A. Hall Jr.
• Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania: A Window into the Evolutionary History of East Africa by Terry Harrison
• Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology by Shuhai Xiao
• Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas by David Rains Wallace
• New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record by Douglas H. Erwin
• A New Varanoid Fossil from the Cenomanian of the Middle East by Annat Haber
• The New York Times Book of Fossils and Evolution by Nicholas Wade
• The Ngandong Fossil Hominids: A Comparative Study of a Far Eastern Homo Erectus Group by A. P. Santa Luca
• No Stone Unturned: Reasoning About Rocks and Fossils by E. K. Peters
• No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species [hardcover] by Richard Ellis
• No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species [paperback] by Richard Ellis
• The Northern Adriatic Ecosystem: Deep Time in a Shallow Sea by Frank K. McKinney
• Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us by Robert W. Felix
• Notes on the Fossil Remains of the Lower Carboniferous Limestone Exposed at Grand Rapids, Mich. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
• Numerical Palaeobiology: Computer-based Modelling and Analysis of Fossils and their Distributions by D. A. T. Harper
  
  
• Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart

                   

• The Oligocene Bridge Creek Flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon by Herbert W. Meyer
• The Oligocene Haynes Creek Flora of Eastern Idaho by Daniel I. Axelrod
• Omphalos: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 by Philip Gosse
• On Evolution and Fossil Mammals by Bjorn Kurten
• On the Origin of Phyla by James W. Valentine
• One Long Experiment (Perspectives in Paleobiology and Earth History) by Ronald E. Martin
• Origin and Early Evolution of Angiosperms by Charles Beck
• Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa by Jere H. Lipps
• The Origin and Evolution of Birds by Alan Feduccia
• Origin and Evolution of Gymnosperms by Charles Beck
• The Origins of Man by Douglas Palmer
• The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred S. Romer
• Ostracodology - Linking Bio- and Geosciences:... by Renate Matzke-Karasz
• Our Earliest Ancestors by Bjorn Kurten
• Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
• Outline of the Geology of the Globe, and of the United States in Particular: With Two Geological Maps, and Sketches of Characteristic American Fossils by Edward Hitchcock
• Owls, Caves, and Fossils: Predation, Preservation, and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves, With an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas... by Peter Andrews
  
  
• Palæontology: Volume 1 by Fielding Bradford Meek

                       

• Palaeobiology II [hardcover] by D. E. G. Briggs
• Palaeobiology II [paperback] by D. E. G. Briggs
• The Palaeobiology of Trace Fossils by S. K. Donovan
• Paláeontology ... by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
• Palaeontology & Historical Geology: Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress by Jin Yu-Gan
• Palaeontology: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 by Richard Owen
• Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations by J. J. Alvaro
• Paleobase: Deep Sea Benthic Foraminifera [CD-ROM] by Ann Holbourn
• Paleobase: Macrofossils [CD-ROM] by Norman MacLeod
• Paleobase: Macrofossils, Parts 1, 2 and 3 [CD-ROM] by Norman MacLeod
• Paleobase: Macrofossils, Part 3.0 [CD-ROM] by Norman MacLeod
• Paleobase: Macrofossils: Ammonoids, Bivalves, Coleoids, Gastropods, and Early Matazoans [CD-ROM] by Norman MacLeod
• Paleobase: Microfossils [CD-ROM] by M. Brasier
• Paleobiogeography by Bruce S. Lieberman
• Paleobiological Study of the Late Triassic Bivalve Monotis from Japan by Hisao Ando
• Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica by Jeffrey D. Stilwell
• The Paleobiology of the Pavlovian People by Erik Trinkhaus
• Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina,... by Albert E. Sanders
• Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary by Raymond S. Bradley
• Paleoecology and Evolutionary Significance of Hard Substrate Trace Fossils by Leif Michael Tapanila
• Paleoecology and Regional Paleoclimatic Implications of the Farmdalian Craigmile & Woodfordian by R. Sanders Rhodes II
• Paleoecology: Concepts and Applications by James Robert Dodd
• Paleoecology: Environmental Evolution by Simon So
• Paleoecology of Quaternary Drylands by Werner Smykatz-Kloss
• Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts by Yehouda Enzel
• Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures by Deborah M. Pearsall
• Paleolimnology IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Paleolimnology, Held at Ossiach, Carinthia, Austria by Heinz Loffler
• Paleolimnology: The History and Evolution of Lake Systems by Andrew S. Cohen
• The Paleolithic of Siberia: New Discoveries and Interpretations by Anatoliy P. Derev'Anko
• The Paleolithic of Siberia: New Discoveries and Interpretations by Anatoliy P. Derev'Anko
• Paleontological Data Analysis by Oyvind Hammer
• Paleontological Events by Carlton E. Brett
• Paleontology: A Brief History of Life by Ian Tattersall
• Paleontology and Geology of the Western Salton Trough Detachment, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California by Paul Remeika
• The Paleontology of Gran Barranca by Richard Madden
• Paleontology or a Systematic Summary of of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations by Richard Owen
• Paleontology: The Record of Life by Colin W. Stearn
• Paleopalynology by Alfred Traverse
• Paleoradiology: Imaging Mummies and Fossils by R. K. Chhem
• Paleozoic Fossils by Bruce L. Stinchcomb
• Palstat: User's Manual and Case Histories - Statistics for Palaeontologists and Palaeobiologists by Paul D. Ryan
• The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory by Kenneth L. Feder
• Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo by J. L. Thompson

                   

• Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads by Frank J. Daniels
• Phanerozoic Sea-Level Changes by Anthony Hallam
• Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis from the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming by John Joseph Flynn
• A Pictorial Guide to Fossils [hardcover] by Gerard R. Case
• A Pictorial Guide to Fossils [paperback] by Gerard R. Case
• Plant-arthropod Interactions in the Early Angiosperm History by V. Krassilov
• Plant Life of the Quaternary Cold Stages: Evidence from the British Isles by Richard West
• Plants Invade the Land [hardcover] by Patricia G. Gensel
• Plants Invade the Land [paperback] by Patricia G. Gensel
• The Pleistocene: Geology and Life in the Quaternary Ice Age by Tage A. Nilsson
• Pleistocene Mammals of North America by Bjorn Kurten
• Pleurocarpous Mosses by Angela E. Newton
• A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics by Christopher McGowan
• The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events by P. G. Eriksson
• Prehistoric America: A Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond by Miles Barton
• Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth by Kirk R. Johnson
• Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK Publishing
• Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long

               

• Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth [hardcover] by Douglas Palmer
• Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth [paperback] by Douglas Palmer
• A Prehistory of South Florida by Warren Zeiller
• The Primate Fossil Record by Walter Carl Hartwig
• Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances by Elizabeth Strasser
• Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution by Matthew J. Ravosa
• The Primitive Diversity and Number of Animals in Geological Times by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
• Principles of Paleoclimatology [hardcover] by Thomas M. Cronin
• Principles of Paleoclimatology [paperback] by Thomas M. Cronin
• Principles of Paleontology by Michael Foote
• Principles of Paleontology by David Raup
• Proceedings of the Fossils of Arizona Symposium by Mesa Southwest Museum
• Proceedings of the VXth Inqua Conference:...(Palaeoecology of Africa & of the Surrounding Islands & Antarctica,)
• The Processes of Fossilization by Stephen K. Donovan
• The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time by David Unwin
  
  
• Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
  
  
• Quantitative Paleozoology by R. Lee Lyman
• Quaternary Climates, Environments and Magnetism by Barbara A. Maher
• Quaternary Dating Methods: An Introduction [hardcover] by Mike Walker
• Quaternary Dating Methods: An Introduction [paperback] by Mike Walker
• Quaternary Environmental Micropalaeontology by Simon K. Haslett

           

• Quaternary Environments by David Dunkerley
• Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications by Jay S. Noller
• The Quaternary Period in the United States: Developments in Quaternary Science by Alan Gillespie
• The Quest for Life in Amber by George Poinar
  
  
• Radiolaria: Siliceous Plankton Through Time by Jonathan Aitchison
• Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter Douglas Ward
• The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa by Stephen Oppenheimer
• Reassessment of Reptilian Diversity Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary by Robert M Sullivan
• Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications [hardcover] by Johannes Weigelt
• Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications [paperback] by Johannes Weigelt
• Receptaculitids: A Phylogenetic Debate on a Problematic Fossil Taxon by Matthew H. Nitecki
• Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record by J. Michael Plavcan
• Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis by Glenn C. Conroy
• Reconstructing Ocean History - A Window into the Future by Fatima Abrantes
• A Reevaluation of the Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions Associated with Homo Erectus From Java, Indonesia, Based on the Functional Morphology of Fossil Bovid Astragali by Daniel Charles Weinand
• Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Wisconsin. Volume I. On General Geology and Palaeontology,... by James Hall
• Review of the Pelycosauria by Alfred S. Romer
• The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Rose
• The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia by Mikhail A. Fedonkin
• The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades by Kenneth D. Rose
• The Rise of Progress of Paleontology by Thomas H. Huxley
• Rise of the Dragon: Readings from Nature on the Chinese Fossil Record by Henry Gee
• Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions [hardcover] by Peter Douglas Ward
• Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions [paperback] by Peter Douglas Ward
• Rock of Ages Sands of Time by Warren Allmon
• Rocks and Fossils (Visual Factfinder) by Belinda Gallagher
• Rocks & Fossils: A Visual Guide by Robert R. Coenraads
  
  

               

• Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World [hardcover] by Martin J. S. Rudwick
• Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World [paperback] by Martin J. S. Rudwick
• The Science Times Book of Fossils and Evolution by Nicholas Wade
• Scottish Rocks and Fossils by Alan McKirdy
• Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans [hardcover] by Richard Ellis
• Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans [paperback] by Richard Ellis
• Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep by Michael Everhart
• The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
• Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils - The Backbone of Archaeological Dating by Michael J. O'Brien

               

• Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life [hardcover] by Henry Gee
• Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life [paperback] by Henry Gee
• Short History of Vertebrate Palaeontology by E. Buffetaut
• Silurian and Lower Devonian Thelodonts and Putative Chondrichthyans from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago by T. Märss
• Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils by Palolo Arduini
• Size and Shape of the Cerebellum in Catarrhine Primates and Plio-Pleistocene Fossil Hominins: A Paleoneurological Analysis of Endocranial Casts by Daniel D. White
• Skeletons in Our Closet by Clark Spencer Larsen
• Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott by Ellis Leon Yochelson
• Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It by Gabrielle Walker
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 67 by Patrick Jackson
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 68 by Andrew R. Milner
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 69 by Oliver W. M. Rauhut
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 71 by Sanchez-Villagra Marcello
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 72 by P. M. Rees
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 75 by T. Märss
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 76 by Paul Copper
• Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 77 by David J. Batten
• Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory by Quentin Wheeler
• Stately Fossils: A Comprehensive Look at the State Fossils and Other Official Fossils by Stephen Brusatte
• Statistics with Applications in Biology and Geology by Preben Blaesild
• Status of Smilodontopsis (Brown, 1908 and Ischyrosmilus) by C. S. Churcher
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
• Studies in Palaeobotany & Palynology in Honour of Prof. W. G. Chaloner F.R.S. (Special Papers in Palaeontology) by Collinson
• Studies in the Palaeozoic Palaentology and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Charles Hepworth Holland (Special Papers in Palaeontology) by Patrick Jackson
• Studies on Early Land Plant Spores from Britain (Special Papers in Palaeontology) by C. J. Cleal
• Studies on Mexican Paleontology by Francisco J. Vega

                   

• Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species [hardcover] by Jeffrey H. Schwartz
• Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species [paperback] by Jeffrey H. Schwartz
• Swimming in Stone: The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley by John Long
• Systematic List of Fossil Decapod Crustacean Species by Carrie E. Schweitzer
• Systematic Survey of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Gastropoda and Paleozoic Bivalvia from Japan by Itaru Hayami
  
  
• T. rex and the Crater of Doom [hardcover] by Walter Alvarez
• T. rex and the Crater of Doom [paperback] by Walter Alvarez
• T. rex and the Crater of Doom [paperback] by Walter Alvarez
• Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat Shipman
• Taphonomy: A Process Approach [hardcover] by Ronald E. Martin
• Taxonomy and Palaeoecology of Late Neogene Benthic Foraminifera by L. Bornmalm
• Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biostratigraphy of Late Triassic- Early Jurassic Calcareous Nannofossils (Special Papers in Palaeontology) by P. R. Bown
• Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record by Paul Smith
• Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo: (Europe) (The Human Fossil Record) by Jeffrey H. Schwartz
• Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk by Michael Novacek
• The Terrane Puzzle: New Perspectives on Paleontology and Stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera by Robert B. Blodgett
• The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America by Donald R. Prothero
• Textbook of Pollen Analysis by Knut Faegri
• Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications (The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Paleobiology and Earth History Series) [hardcover] by George McGhee
• Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications (The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Paleobiology and Earth History Series) [paperback] by George McGhee

               

• Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time by Peter Douglas Ward
• Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia [hardcover] by Michael J. Novacek
• Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia [paperback] by Michael J. Novacek
• Titanotheres of Ancient Wyoming, Dakota, and Nebraska by Henry F. Osborn
• The Top 256 Rules of Paleontology: ...Practical Advice for Fossil Technicians by Walter W. Stein
• Trace Fossil Analysis by Adolf Seilacher
• Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects by William Miller III
• Trace Fossils, Small Shelly Fossils, and the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary: Proceedings... by The New York State Museum
• Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells [hardcover] by Betsey Dexter Dyer
• Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells [paperback] by Betsey Dexter Dyer
• The Transformations of the Animal World (The History of Paleontology) by Charles Deperet
• Travels With the Fossil Hunters by P. J. Whybrow
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Archaeocyatha by Dorothy Hill
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Arthropoda 3 by Raymond C. Moore
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Arthropoda 4: Volumes 3 and 4: Super Hexapoda 1 and 2 by Roger L. Kaesler
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Brachiopoda by Roger Kaesler
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Brachiopoda, Vol. 1 by Roger Kaesler
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Echinodermata 3 by Raymond C. Moore
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Introduction to the Porifera by J. Keith Rigby
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part A Introduction (Fossilization, Biogeography and Biostratigraphy) by Richard A. Robison
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part D: Protista 3 by Raymond Moore
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part G: Bryozoa: Introduction, Order Cystoporata, Order Cyptostomata by R. A. Robinson
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part P: Arthropoda 2 by Raymond C. Moore
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part S: Echinodermata by Raymond C. Moore
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part T: Echinodermata 2 by Georges Ubaghs
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part V: Graptolithina: With Sections on Enteropneusta and Pterobranchia by O.M.B. Bulman
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Porifera, Porifea Demosopongea, Hexactinellida by Geological Society of America
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Protoctista 1, Charophyta by Geological Society of America
• Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition by Hans-Dieter Sues

       

• The Triumph of Evolution...And the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
• Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America by Paul S. Martin
• The Two-Mile Time Machine by Richard B. Alley
• Understanding Earth: No Stone Unturned: Reasoning About Rocks and Fossils by Frank Press
• Understanding Fossils: An Introduction to Invertebrate Palaeontology by Peter Doyle
• Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events (Development in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Vol. 20) by Jeff Over
• Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic by Gerhard Fischer
  
  
• Vegetation and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Modelling the First 400 Million Years by David Beerling
• Vertebrate Life by F. Harvey Pough
• Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography by Julia T. Sankey
• Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton

               

• Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World by Michael Freeman
• Virtual Reconstruction: A Primer in Computer-Assisted Paleontology and Biomedicine by Christoph P. Zollikofer
  
  
• West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island by Rolf Ludvigsen
• What Your Fossils Can Tell You: Vertebrate Morphology, Pathology, and Cultural Modification by Robert W. Sinibaldi
• When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time [hardcover] by Michael Benton
• When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time [paperback] by Michael Benton
• Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent by Pat Vickers Rich
• William Diller Matthew, Paleontologist by Edwin H. Colbert

                   

• The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan Walker
• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
• The World Encyclopedia of Fossils and Fossil Collecting: An Illustrated Reference to Over 400 Plant and Animal Fossils from Around the Globe and How to ... by Steve Parker
• The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE by Ian Tattersall
• World Prehistory: Two Million Years of Human Life by Peter N. Peregrine
• World's Oldest Fossils by Bruce L. Stinchcomb
  
  
• You Can Be A Woman Paleontologist by Diane L. Gabrier
• The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall by Gale Archival Editions
  
  
• Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections To Zoological Gardens by James Ellis
• Zooarchaeology by Elizabeth J. Reitz
• The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Part I: Fossil Mammalia, Part II: Mammalia by Charles Darwin

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