Fossil Collections of the World

Cambrian UCSB	Adam Sedgwick	1830's
Ordovician UCSB	Charles Lapworth	1879
Silurian UCSB	Sir Roderick Impey Murchison	1835
Devonian UCSB	Sedgwick and Murchison	1839
Carboniferous UCSB (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian)	Wm. Conybeare and Wm. Phillips Ayer Company Publishers	1822
Permian UCSB	Sir Roderick Impey Murchison	1840
Triassic UCSB	Frederich von Alberti	1834
Jurassic UCSB	Alex. von Humboldt ???	1795
Cretaceous UCSB	Omalius d'Halloy	1822
Tertiary UCSB	from Arduino. Used by Sir Charles Lyell	1832
Quaternary ???	Jules Desnoyers	1829

Classic Fossil Sites

Many of these sites are considered Lagerstätten or motherlode areas of fossils

any submissions/suggestions/corrections email me

Pre-Cambrian	700	Ediacara Hills	South Australia
Pre-Cambrian		Sirius Passer	Northern Greenland
Cambrian	530	Burgess Shale	British Columbia, Canada
Cambrian	525	Chengjiang	Yunnan Province, China
Silurian - Ordovician		Silurian-Ordovician	Wales and the Marches
Devonian	386	Falls of the Ohio State Park	Indiana, USA
Devonian	370	Hunsrückschiefer	Germany
Pennsylvanian	300	Mazon Creek	Illinois, USA
Jurassic	190	Holzmaden	Württemberg, Germany
Jurassic	150	Solnhofen Limestone	Bavaria, Germany
Jurassic		Morrison Formation	Colarado, USA
Jurassic	213	Jurassic Coastline	Dorset, England
Cretaceous		Badlands	N. and S. Dakota, USA Alberta, Canada
Cretaceous		Judith River Group	South-Eastern Alberta, Canada
Upper Cretaceous	65	Hell Creek Formation	N. and S. Dakota, Montana, USA
Cretaceous		Pierre Shale
Eocene		Barton Clay	Hampshire, England
Eocene	50	Green River Formation	Western USA
Eocene	49	Messel Oil Shale	Hessen, Germany
Miocene	10	Ashfall Fossil Beds	Nebraska, USA
		Riversleigh and Naracoorte	E. Australia
Holocene	0.02	Rancho La Brea	California, USA

Ediacara Hills map

Pre-Cambrian DKC
Fauna of the Ediacaran Paleo World
Ediacara University of Ediacara
Spriggina UCMP
Vendian Animals UCMP
Bibliography of Vendian Localities UCMP

Sirius Passer

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Burgess Shales

Anomalocaris kbc
Hallucigenia

Marrella splendens: Lace Crab kbc
Burgess Shales by A. Macrae's page U. of Calgary
Yoho National Parks Canadian National Parks
Mount Stephen Fossil Bed Trip CREWES Project U. of Calgary
Burgess Shales ScienceWeb
Weird Creatures of the Cambrian by Romeo A. Esparrago, Jr
Hidden Treasure in the Canadian Rockies HVNHM
Arthropods bibliography Talk Origins
Digital Burgess conference web site

Trek to the Burgess Shale
photo album from the recent conference

World Map U. of Wisconsin-Madison

Chengjiang Deposits

Chengjiang Deposits of China HVNHM
Bibliography Talk Origins

Silurian - Ordovician in Wales and 'the Marches'

Murchison, Sir Roderick I.
Llandrindod Wells, Powys

Builth Wells, Powys

Church Stretton, Shropshire

Craven Arms, Shropshire

River Onny, Shropshire
Ludlow, Shropshire

Ludlow Bone Bed, Shropshire British Fossils
Mortimer Forest, Shropshire

Country walks around Ludlow

Falls of the Ohio State Park

Falls of the Ohio State Park

Fossils Galore 220 acres of exposed, Devonian fossil beds

Hunsrückschiefer

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Mazon Creek

Mazon Creek Fossils Illinois State Museum

Holzmaden

Crinoid Laurence S. Youngblood Energy Library
Das Hauff Museum in Holzmaden (German) BabelFish

Morrison Formation

Morrison Natural History Museum
Carnegie Quarry CMNH
Dinosaur National Monument NPS map
Dinosaur National Monument Utah Collections Project
Dinosaur National Monument Utah Travel Council
Dinosaur National Monument GORP
WDC Wyoming Dinosaur Center

List of fossils in WDC exhibition
Mesozoic Stratigraphy in the Thermopolis Area
Thermopolis Fossil Beds

DNA Dinosaur Nature Association
Mill Canyon/Copper Ridge Dinosaur Tracks Utah Travel

Solnhofen Limestone of Germany

map
Solnhofen Limestone UCMP
Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone HVNHM
Archaeopteryx

Dorset's Jurassic Coastline

Dorset
Geology and Fossils of the West Dorset coast by Matthew Young

Fossil collecting in the Lower Jurassic Graeme Caselton's great site
Jurassic Field Trips by Ian West another great site

Lyme Bay Map JFT
Pinhay Bay
Lyme Regis (Lower Lias)

map
Mary Anning
Mary Anning Dragons
Blue Lias

Blue Lias of Lyme Regis JFT

Monmouth Beach
Church Cliffs
Black Ven FCLJ

Charmouth

Lithic succession details of fossils in each bed FCLJ
map
Stonebarrow Hill FCLJ

Beds and Divisions FCLJ

St. Gabriel's Mouth
Golden Cap
Green Ammonite Beds
Belemnite Marls

Seatown

Thorncombe Beacon

Eype Mouth
West Bay

Burton Bradstock

Swyre

Chesil Beach

map
Chesil Beach Independent Portland Site
Chesil Beach Dorset Page

Abbotsbury

Wyke Regis

Portland and Portland Bill

map
Portland Field Trip JFT
Portland Dorset County Council
A Day Out On Portland Resort Guide UK
map

Bowleaze Cove

Osmington Mills
Ringstead

White Nothe

Durdle

Geological Field Guide JFT
Durdle Door Dorset Page

Lulworth Cove

Worbarrow
Kimmeridge Bay

Purbeck, Isle of

map
Purbeck Bibliography JFT
Durlston Head
Studland
map

Badlands

map
Badlands National Park S. Dakota NPS
Badlands National Park S. Dakota Park Search by L.L. Bean
Badlands National Park S. Dakota GORP
Dakota Dinosaurs and Fossils ???
Excavate in the Badlands Exposaur Excursions Drumheller, Alberta
Dinosaur Provincial Park Alberta

Field Work

Judith River Group

Geological Formations by Hope Johnson ( Shane Leuck's Site)
Fossil dinosaur bone microstructure A. Macrae's page

Hell Creek Formation

Digging dinos
Lifestones
Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of NW South Dakota isgs

Hell Creek 1996 Photo Tour
Hell Creek 1997 Photo Tour

Pierre Shale

Pierre Shale Ammonites, nautiloids, reptiles itano
???

Green River Formation

Dinosaur Valley Museum MWC
Fossil Butte National Park NPS

Fossil Lake Trail

Fossil Butte National Monument GORP map
Dig your own Fossil Fish at Warfield Quarries WMNH
Green River Formation Fossils by Dave Kohls
Green River Formation Mr. Wood's Fossils

Barton Clay

Highcliffe
Barton
map
Hordle
Long Mead End
Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England

Death of a Fossil Site Canadian Rockhound

Messel Oil Shale

Ashfall Fossil Beds

Riversleigh and Naracoorte, E. Australia

Rancho La Brea map

George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries

La Brea Tar Pits Photo Tour DDC photo tours

La Brea Tar Pits Turkey Vulture Society
La Brea Tar Pits Whizbang California Trip
UCMP La Brea Tar Pits

more classic UK sites

Isle of Wight, England

Dinosaur Island WightOnLine

East Kirkton near Bathgate, Scotland

East Kirkton Amphibian HM

Girvan, Scotland, Ordovician

'Lady Burn Starfish Beds' HM

Dudley, West Midlinds, Wenlock Limestone, Silurian

Dudley by the Sea Dudley Zoo

Folkestone, Kent, Lower Chalk, Cretaceous
Folkestone, Kent, Gault Clay, Cretaceous
Whitby, N. Yorkshire

Ammonites and fossils by fosshunt

Robin's Hood Bay, N. Yorkshire, Lower Lias, Jurassic
Thurso, Highland, Upper Caithness Flagstone Group, Devonian

Caithness Flagstones by Gordon Johnson

Barnsley, West Yorkshire, Westphalian Coal Seams, Carboniferous
Radstock, Avon (could be Somerset now), Westphalian Coal Seams, Carboniferous

Famous Fossils

any suggestions email me

T. Rex

Barnum Brown's first finds AMNH
T. rex surfs the web good T.Rex links site Museum of Victoria, Australia
Tyrannosaurus rex Expo new dino at UCMP
Sue - A dino dispute Dinosaur Society
Scotty the T. Rex at Eastend, Saskatchewan Eastend Fossil Research Station
More about Tyrannosauridae JDP
Tyrannosaurus Baatar HM

Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx UCMP
All about Archaeopteryx Talk Origins
More about Archaeopteryx JDP

Mantell's Iguanodon

Gideon Mantell Finds Fossil Teeth Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia
Mantell's Iguanodon Teeth, 1825 LHL
Country of the Iguanodon, 1838 LHL
Iguanodon 'Horn' 1840 LHL

Mary Anning's Dragons

World's First Dinosaur Skeleton

Hadrosaurus foulkii was found in Haddonfield, New Jersey map

Pterosaurs ' Flying Lizards'

New Pterosaur Arthurdactylus conan-doylei by Paul V. Heinrich

Dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert

�Dinosaur Hunters� of the Gobi desert National Geographic Society
Oviraptor Eggs Late Cretaceous Period Southwest Collectibles
Dinosaur Nest found in Central Asia Union College
Brooding dinosaur JDP

Triceratops

Mighty Triceratops HomePage

Mammoths

Excavating a mammoth (dead?)
Mammoth Swedish Museum of Natural History

Hominids

Bonnie Sklar's main page at U. Illionois email

Evolution of Man (dead?)
Fossil Man and Human Evolution Anthropology 101 U. of Alabama
Neanderthals

Shanidar NADL
Neanderthal Database by Larry R. Vandervert, Ph.D
The Flute, Worlds oldest musical instrument? by Bob Fink

Lucy

Lucy B. Sklar's page

Other fossils B. Sklar's page

Take the Lucy Test Australopithecus afarensis - evalute the evidence by Matthew Priestley

Little Foot (Stw 573)

Australopithecus fossil foot bones from 3 million years AMNH

Boxgrove Man Homo Heidelbergensis

Who was Boxgrove Man Boxgrove Project

Piltdown Man

Piltdown Man hoax of the century by Richard Harter
Piltdown Man Bonnie Sklar's page

Living Fossils

Living Fossils (dead?)
Earth and Sky Living Fossils
Living plant fossil garden sdsu
Lingula

Lingula Union College Geology Dept.

Wollemi Pine

Amazing new 'living fossil' discovered Environment Australia online

Horseshoe Crab

Ancient Mariners Beach-Net
Fossil horseshoe crabs Fossil surgery by Lyall I. Anderson

List of publications

Coelacanth

Coelacanth The fish out of time definitive site on subject
Review 'Living Fossil - Story of the Coelacanth'
Coelacanth AMNH

Proteaceae sp. newly discovered living fossil Environment Australia online
Aussies find living fossil Lavarackorum elseya or gulf snapping turtle

Famous Fossil Collections

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Natural History Museum (BM)

Dept of Palaeontology

HM Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow

Fossils

North America

AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York map

Dinosaurs live on

Museum of Paleontology Fossil Collections U. of Michigan
CMNH Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh map

Invertebrate Collection 10th largest in N. America
Paleobotany Collection
Vertebrate Fossil Collection
Dinosaurs Live On

Raymond M. Alf Museum Collections Claremont, CA

Hall of Life virtual museum tour
Fossil Collecting Trips and Classes for Students

FMNH Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago map
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Drumheller, Alberta

Reports and updates from the Tyrrell JDP

Peabody Museum Yale map

Holland

Teylers Museum

France

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Belgium

Museum of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

Important People in Fossil Collecting

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Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832)

UCMP Georges Cuvier

William Smith (1769 - 1839)

Father of stratigraphy (dead?)

William Buckland (1784 - 1856)
AMNH William Buckland
Adam Sedgwick (1785 - 1873)

UCMP Adam Sedgwick
UCMP References
Sedgwick Museum of Geology Cambridge U.

Gideon Mantell (1790 - 1852)

Specimens at HM
Mantell's Iguanodon

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792 - 1871)

J. de C. Sowerby and J. Sowerby

Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells Shapero Rarebooks

Sir Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)

Sir Charles Lyell San José State U.
Lyell Joseph Hall

Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)

Mary Anning (dead?)
UCMP Mary Anning

Richard Owen (1804 - 1892)

UCMP Richard Owen

Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873)

Biography Ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Feature Cichlid Evening Post, Feb 1996
UCMP Louis Agassiz
UCMP References

Othniel Charles Marsh (1832 - 1899)

Peabody Museum O. C. Marsh
O. C. Marsh Pioneer in Paleontology Book Review

Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897)

UCMP E. D Cope
Edward Drinker Cope Papers Haverford College
Picture of E.D. Cope jdhexen
Edward Drinker Cope at Penn State

Charles Lapworth (1842 - 1920)

Lapworth Museum U. of Birmingham
History of Geology at St Andrews

George Dawson (1849 - 1901)

George Dawson

Charles Sternberg (1850 - 1943)

AMNH Charles Sternberg

Charles Sternberg and New Mexico Dinosaurs in Sweden
AMNH 'Dinosaur Mummy'

Harry Fairfield Osborn (1857 - 1935)

AMNH Henry Fairfield Osborn

Walter Granger (1871 - 1942)

AMNH Walter Granger
America's 1907 Fossil-Hunt to the Faiyum of Egypt

Al Faiyum map

Walter Granger Papers Granger Project

Barnum Brown (1873 - 1963)

AMNH Barnum Brown

Roy Chapman Andrews (1884 - 1960)

AMNH R. C. Andrews

The Leakeys

Review Ancestral Passions
Prominent Hominid Fossils Talk Origins

Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996)

Anthropologists B. Sklar's page
Mary Leakey Microsoft Encarta

Loius B. Leakey (1903 - 1972)

Anthropologists B. Sklar's page
Discovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past by Ted Weiman

Richard Leakey (b. 1940)

AMNH Personalities in Paleontology

Collectors

I am looking for more collectors with images on their web pages.

Submit your page, submit a friend's page or a page you just happen to like.

Any submissions/suggestions email me

Greg's Fossil Page	Little Stave Creek dig, Alabama; Mesosaur dig, Selma Alabama; Triceratops, Red Bird and Mule Creek Junction Wyoming from Greg Livaudais
Itano Family Fossil Collection	Wayne Itano's fossils from Maryland and Colorado
Prem's fossil gallery Beneath the Calamites Tree	Prem Subrahmanyam's Trilobites, Graptolites, Plants, etc.
Fossil Hunter	Collecting sites, links and good info for fossil hounds and other rock geeks from Mike Perona
Per Hansson's Trilobite Gallery	Per Hansson's trilobites from Sweden
Kevin's Trilobite Page	Trilobite images, links, references and more from Kevin Brett
The Semi-Compleat Trilobite	Trilobite images by A. Macrae's page
Paleontology Page Geology Page	Useful links from Joseph Hall at Geocities
Fossils from Eduardo Jawerbaum Collection	Eduardo Jawerbaum's fossils from Argentina
Fossil Freak's Guide to the Universe	Fossil freak's page at GeoCities with more links
British Fossil Flora and Fauna	Tom Levinson's page
Oyvind Hammer's Fossil Collection (Norway)	Norwegian fossils from Oyvind Hammer
Bosco's Rockpile Gallery	Six fossil images: by Bosco
Gateway Country Fossils	Fossils of the late Cretaceous formations of Gateway County, SE Alberta by Shane Leuck
Kato's Mineral Fossil Collection	Kato, a collector in Japan. Extensive collection (and it's getting bigger) of mineral and fossil images
Johnathan Campbell fossil preparator	Johnathan Campbell: fossil preparator at N. Dakota Geological Survey
Dimitri Komatitsch's fossil page	Trilobite from Ontario, Mastodon teeth, cephalopod from Iowa by Dimitri Komatitsch
Sally May's Fossil Page	links
Ammonites and fossils	Jurassic fossils from Whitby, N. Yorkshire by fosshunt
Chris Saetti's Fossil Gallery	Chris Saetti's fossil images from the Columbus Ohio and Caesar Creek areas

Fossil Taxa

This section has grown and is now a seperate page - Fossil Taxa

Links to Links

Virtual Earth Links for Earth Scientists Great Site!
Geologists Lifetime Field List all the things a geologist should do
Bitten by the Bone review and links of online sites
Paleo Links isgs large well explained list
Paleontology on the WWW comprehensive links with discriptions
West's Geology Directory Ian West's earth science links JFT
Other Paleontological Links Prem's links
K-Paleo - Glen J. Kuban's paleo place, fossils, dinos, museums, etc
Paleontological Links on the WWW museums, etc.
Links for Palaeobotanists from Klaus-Peter Kelber
UCMP Image collections and misc resources
Natural History Museums list of museums worldwide
Museums in the UK links to UK museums
Geological Societies on the Web list of professional bodies
Geological Surveys global list of surveys
Dino Russ's Lair earthnet server
Wolfs Lair links to fossil collectors
PaleoRing I'm a member, see bottom of this page
GeoTechnica BBS forum for Geophysics, Geology and Geochemistry
Bob's Rock Shop resources and news by a rockhound
Paleo World by Greg Corwin

North America

Organisations

USGS Ask a Geologist

Geological Societies

List of Geological Societies and Clubs
Geological Society of America

Geology Magazine

Museums

Welcome to the Smithsonian Web Site

Ocean Planet Homepage

Burke Museum U. of Washington
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History
Dallas Museum of Natural History

Collections

Geology Museum Emporia State U., Kansas
FLMNH Florida Museum of Natural History
HVNHM Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum
Illinois State Museum
LHL Linda Hall Library
MWC Museum of Western Colorado Dinosaur Valley Museum
NMMNH New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Royal Saskatchewan Museum Regina, Saskatchewan
UCMP University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley

PaleoNet Places to go

Museum of Natural History Fossil Collection at Wayne State
MNHM Morrison Natural History Museum
WMNH Worldwide Museum of Natural History
UNSM U. of Nebraska State Museum Division of Vertebrate Paleontology

Colleges and Universities

Auburn University Dept. of Geology
Arizona State University
Caltech ???
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire
De Kalb College. Georgia
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Emporia State University, Kansas
Illinois State University
Florida State University Paleontology
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Michigan Tech Geological Engineering and Sciences
NAU Northern Arizona University
Penn State
Purdue University
San José State University
San Diego State University Department of Geological Sciences
Texas A & M University Geology and Geophysics
UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara
Union College Geology Dept.
University of Alabama
University of Alberta Paleontology Courses
University of Calgary Geology and Geophysics Calgary
University of British Columbia
University of Colorado
University of Connecticut
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa, Iowa City geology paleontology
University of Kansas paleontological institute
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska
University of New Mexico
University of Oklahoma Laurence S. Youngblood Energy Library
USC University of Southern California
University of Vermont
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wayne State University map
University of Waterloo, Ottawa, Canada Library Earth Sciences Museum
Yale University New Haven, Connecticut map

Parks

NPS Fossil Parks can be slow! by Vince Santucci
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument NPS map
Ashfall Fossil Beds National Park
Badlands National Park
Big Bone Lick State Park Union, KY
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur Provincial Park Alberta
Falls of the Ohio State Park, Indiana
Fossil Butte National Park
Geology of the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon Explorer
Gros Morne National Park
Grand Teton National Park: geology Geology Gems Winona State U.
Glacier National Park geology NPS
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument GORP map
Petrified Forest National Park GORP map
Yoho National Parks

Fossils Sites any suggestions email me

Fossil collecting sites in N. America Fossil Hunter
Preserving Vertebrate Fossils notes from UNSM
Guide to dinosaur sites in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah rmwest
Dinosaur Hill Trail MWC
Riggs Hill Quarry Camarasaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Brachiosaurus, found here MWC
Rabbit Valley and Mygatt Moore quarry Allosaurus and others MWC

Self-guiding brochure Trail through Time

Fossils of

List of official US State fossils by Paul V. Heinrich
California

Collecting Fossils in California by Virtual Guide
Local Fossils of Santa Cruz County, California map

Colorado

Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado MNHM
Itano family collection

Pierre Shale Cretaceous Ammonites, nautiloids, reptiles
Niobrara Formation Cretaceous Fish, marine reptiles, bivalves
Belden Formation Pennsylvanian Nautiloids, echinoids, bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans
Minturn Formation Pennsylvanian Sharks, crinoids, corals, gastropods