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• Fossils, Rocks, and Time, by Lucy E. Edwards and John Pojeta (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural history): Being a Monograph of the Permo-Carboniferous Flora of India and the Southern Hemisphere (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1905), by E. A. Newell Arber (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Boundary (c2006), by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor (HTML with commentary at Baen Free Library)

• The Out-Door World: or, Young Collector's Handbook (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by William S. Furneaux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Florida

• Atlas of Creation (4 volumes; 2006-2012), by Hârun Yahya
  • Volume I: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume II: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume III: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at harunyahya.info

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Iconographia Plantarum Fossilium: Abbildungen Und Beschreibungen Fossiler Pflanzen (in German; Vienna: State Printing-House, 1852), by F. Unger
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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