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Invertebrates, Fossil

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• Animals, Fossil
• Invertebrates

• Arthropoda, Fossil
• Cnidaria, Fossil
• Marine invertebrates, Fossil
• Mollusks, Fossil
• Protista, Fossil

• Die Trichopteren des Baltischen Bernsteins (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1912), by Georg Ulmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fringing and Fossil Coral Reefs of Oahu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #55; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by James Barkley Pollock (PDF at bishopmuseum.org)

• The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma (Palaeontologia Indica v3, memoir #2; Kolkata: Office of the Geological Survey, 1917), by S. S. Buckman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Phylogeny of the Echini, With a Revision of Palaezoic Species (Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History v7; Boston: Printed for the Society, 1912), by Robert Tracy Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary Freshwater Mollusca of the Californian Province, Based Upon an Ontogenetic Classification (reprinted from the Proceedings of Malacological Society, 1912), by Harold Hannibal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fossil Marine Mollusks of Oahu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #51; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Jens Mathias Ostergaard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revised Descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990) (electronic edition, 2009), by A. G. Beu and J. L. Raine, contrib. by Phillip A. Maxwell (illustrated HTML and PDF in New Zealand)
• Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand (Lower Hutt, NZ: New Zealand Geological Survey, 1990), by A. G. Beu and Phillip A. Maxwell (PDF in New Zealand)

• Geological Observations on South America, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)

• Recent Fossil Marine Mollusca of Tongatabu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #131; Honolulu: The Museum, 1935), by Jens Mathias Ostergaard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943-1948), by Julia Anna Gardner, contrib. by Wendell C. Mansfield
  • Part 1 (Pelecypoda; with a summary of the stratigraphy): PDF at usgs.gov
  • Part 2 (Scaphopoda and Gastropoda): PDF at usgs.gov

• Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera (second edition; London: UCL Press, c2015), by M. K. BouDagher-Fadel
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Neogene Smaller Foraminifera from Lau, Fiji (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #211; Honolulu: The Museum, 1954), by Robert M. Kleinpell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geology of Eua, Tonga (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #96; Honolulu: The Museum, 1932), by J. Edward Hoffmeister (PDF at bishopmuseum.org)

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

• Les Formations Sédimentaires du Crétacé Supérieur et du Tertiaire de Patagonie (Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia de Buenos Aires series 3 v8, in French; Buenos Aires: Imp. de J. A. Alsina, 1906), by Florentino Ameghino
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • labeled as part of the Anales series: multiple formats at archive.org

• Monograph on the Higher Crustacea of the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland (first publication of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain: Palaeontology series; Glasgow: HMSO, 1908), by B. N. Peach (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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

• 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)

• Studies of Cenozoic Vertebrates of Western North America and of Fossil Primates (Contributions to Paleontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #530; 1942), contrib. by Arthur B. Drescher, E. L. Furlong, Ida Sidsel De May, Paul C. Henshaw, Robert W. Wilson, Hildegarde Howard, and G. H. R. von Koenigswald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tertiary Vertebrates From Mongolia (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, v1 fasc. 1; Beijing: Geological Survey of China, 1924), by Max Schlosser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Extinct Vertebrate Faunas of the Badlands of Bautista Creek and San Timoteo Cañon, Southern California (University of California Publications in Geology v12 #5; 1921), by Childs Frick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates, Exclusive of North America, 1509-1927 (2 volumes; New York: Geological Society of America, 1962), by Alfred Sherwood Romer, Nelda E. Wright, Tilly Edinger, and Richard Van Frank
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • searchable index that includes citations from this work at vertpaelo.org

• Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #390, 2 volumes; 1929-1930), by Oliver Perry Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (USGS Bulletin #179; Washington: GPO, 1902), by Oliver Perry Hay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Studies on Cenozoic Vertebrates of Western North America (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #487; 1938), contrib. by Robert W. Wilson, John R. Schultz, Hildegarde Howard, Edwin H. Colbert, Jerome Douglass Laudermilk, and Philip A. Munz (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• The Fossil Fishes of The English Chalk (originally issued in 7 parts; London: The Palaeontographical society, 1902-1912), by Arthur Smith Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Glass Models of Invertebrate Animals, H. A. Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester, NY: E.R. Andrews, 1888), by Henry A. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the Amoeba to the Insects (New York: D. Appleton, 1881), by Arabella B. Buckley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub. Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, c1952), by R. E. Snodgrass (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology, ed. by Armand Maggenti and Scott L. Gardner (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• A Synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary Freshwater Mollusca of the Californian Province, Based Upon an Ontogenetic Classification (reprinted from the Proceedings of Malacological Society, 1912), by Harold Hannibal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for Shell Collectors: Illustrations and Descriptions of Shells From All Parts of the World (fifth edition; Rochester, NY: The author, c1945), by Walter Freeman Webb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Materials and Methods in the Study Of Protozoa (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1950), by Harold Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phylogenetic Significance of Certain Protozoan Nuclei (reprinted from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1898), by Gary N. Calkins (page images at HathiTrust)

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