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Amniotes, Fossil

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• Vertebrates, Fossil
• Amniotes

• Birds, Fossil
• Mammals, Fossil
• Reptiles, Fossil

• Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand; With an Appendix on Those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez (2 volumes; London: J. van Voorst, 1879), by Richard Owen
  • Volume I (Text): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Plates): multiple formats at archive.org
• Extinct Birds: An Attempt To Unite in One Volume a Short Account of Those Birds Which Have Become Extinct In Historical Times, That is, Within the Last Six or Seven Hundred Years; To Which are Added a Few Which Still Exist, But Are on the Verge of Extinction (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1907), by Lionel Walter Rothschild (page images at Wisconsin)

• A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by D. Margaret Avery (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Holocene Records of Nebraska Mammals (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2021), by Hugh H. Genoways (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• The Felidae of Rancho La Brea (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #422; 1932), by John C. Merriam and Chester Stock (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Review of the Archaeoceti (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #482; 1936), by Remington Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta (Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History #42; 1986), by Robert M. Schoch
  • PDF at Yale; 111 MB
  • multiple formats at biodiversitylibrary.org

• Marine Mammals (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #447; 1934), by Earl L. Packard, Remington Kellogg, and Ernst Huber (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Review of the Middle and Upper Eocene Primates of North America (Smithsonian Miscellanous Collections v136 #1; 1958), by C. Lewis Gazin
  • PDF at Smithsonian
  • bound with another article: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• On Recently Discovered Subfossil Primates from Madagascar (extract from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1908), by Herbert F. Standing, contrib. by Grafton Elliot Smith
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • as originally published in its journal: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Henry C. Mercer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man (Cincinnati: Williamson and Cantwell Pub. Co., 1878), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, the Ice Age, and the Bible (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), by Michael J. Oard (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)

• Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man (Cincinnati: Williamson and Cantwell Pub. Co., 1878), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Study of the Phytosaurs, With Description of New Material from Western North America (Memoirs of the University of California v10; 1930), by Charles Lewis Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles (with descriptions of other books; c1989), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)

• A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles (with descriptions of other books; c1989), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)

• Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), by Samuel Wendell Williston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mémoires sur les Téléosauriens de l'Époque Jurassique du Département de Calvados: Premier Mémoire, Contenant l'Exposé des Caractères Généraux des Téléosauriens Comparés à Ceux des Crocodiliens et la Description Particulière des Espèces du Lias Supérieur (in French; Caen: A. Hardel, 1863), by M. Eud. Deslongchamps
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dinosaurs of Canada (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, c1965), by W. E. Swinton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaurs (Science Guide #70; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947), by Edwin H. Colbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaur Hunting in Western Canada (Royal Ontario Museum Life sciences contribution #70, c1966), by Loris S. Russell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaurs of North America (extract from the 16th annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey, ca. 1895), by Othniel Charles Marsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Dinosaur Mistake, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)

• Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, c2006), by Peter D. Ward (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, c2006), by Peter D. Ward (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Lost World (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost World (New York: Hodder and Stoughton, George H. Doran Co., c1912), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece missing
• Propashchyĭ Svit (The Lost World in Ukrainian; Lviv: Nakl. Ukrainskoi Spilky, 1922), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Harry Rountree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tyrone and the Swamp Gang, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Horace (New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1951), by Elizabeth Urquhart, illust. by Rosita Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Tyrone the Horrible, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• I'm Tyrannosaurus! A Book of Dinosaur Rhymes, by Jean Marzollo, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Tom Rea (page images at Pitt)

• The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (London: W. Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Hawkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated transcription: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Elasmosaurid Plesiosaurs, With Description of New Material From California and Colorado (Memoirs of the University of California v13 #3; 1943), by Samuel P. Welles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (London: W. Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Hawkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated transcription: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Elasmosaurid Plesiosaurs, With Description of New Material From California and Colorado (Memoirs of the University of California v13 #3; 1943), by Samuel P. Welles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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