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• Phanerozoic Eon

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Middle Cenozoic Floras of Western North America (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #455; 1936), by Robert Smith LaMotte and Elizabeth Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tertiary and Pleistocene Coralline Algae From Lau, Fiji (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #201; Honolulu: The Museum, 1950), by J. Harlan Johnson and Bernard J. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pliocene Floras of California and Oregon (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #553; 1944), ed. by Ralph W. Chaney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of the Pleistocene Palaeobotany of California (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #415; 1934), contrib. by Ralph W. Chaney, H. L. Mason, and Susan S. Potbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Goshen Flora of West Central Oregon (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #439; 1933), by Ralph W. Chaney and Ethel I. Sanborn (multiple formats at Google)
• Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories (3 parts, published as volumes 6-8 of Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; Washington: GPO, 1874-1883), by Leo Lesquereux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fossil Floras of Yellowstone National Park and Southeastern Oregon (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #416, 1933), by C. B. Read and H. D. MacGinitie (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Miocene Flora from the Western Border of the Mohave Desert (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #516; 1939), by Daniel I. Axelrod (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies of the Pliocene Palaeobotany of California (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #412; 1933), contrib. by Erling Dorf and Irma E. Webber (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Middle Eocene Flora From the Central Sierra Nevada (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #534; 1941), by H. D. MacGinitie (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Eagles and Eagle-Like Vultures of the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #429, 1932), by Hildegarde Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• 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

• 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)
• 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

• 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

• 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)

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

• Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Rocky Mountain Region (Contributions to Palaeontology; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #508; 1942), by Erling Dorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories (3 parts, published as volumes 6-8 of Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; Washington: GPO, 1874-1883), by Leo Lesquereux (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Upper Triassic Flora of Arizona (with a discussion of its geologic occurrence by Stagner; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #526; 1941), by Lyman H. Daugherty, contrib. by Howard R. Stagner (page images at HathiTrust)

• California Mosasaurs (Memoirs of the University of California v13 #1; 1942), by Charles Lewis Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Geology and Geography of Northern Nigeria (with appendices on mineral resources and paleontology; some front pages missing; London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by John Downie Falconer, contrib. by Arthur Longbottom and Henry Woods (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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

• 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
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)
• Description of Coal Flora of the Carboniferous Formation in Pennsylvania and Throughout the United States (3 volumes in 2; Harrisburg, PA: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geoglogical Survey, 1880-1884), by Leo Lesquereux (with related atlas: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures of the United States, with Descriptions of the New Species, in the Cabinet of The Pottsville Scientific Association (Pottsville, PA: Printed by B. Bannan, 1858), by Leo Lesquereux (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Age of the Lignitic Formations of the Rocky Mountains (extract from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 1874), by Leo Lesquereux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cambrian History of the Grand Canyon Region (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #563, in 2 parts; 1945), by Edwin D. McKee and Charles Elmer Resser (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• On the Age of the Lignitic Formations of the Rocky Mountains (extract from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 1874), by Leo Lesquereux (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Faunas of the Hamilton Group of Eighteen-Mile Creek and Vicinity in Western New York (ca. 1896), by Amadeus W. Grabau (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology (full serial archives)
• Darwin's Enigma (c1988), by Luther D. Sunderland (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
• Tempo and Mode in Evolution: Genetics and Paleontology 50 Years after Simpson (1995), ed. by Francisco J. Ayala (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Extinct Animals (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1905), by E. Ray Lankester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Medals of Creation: or, First Lessons in Geology, and in the Study of Organic Remains (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1844), by Gideon Algernon Mantell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining Their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth, and Diseases (London: R. Hardwicke, 1865), by John Hunter, contrib. by Francis C. Webb and Robert Thomas Hulme (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Observations and Reflections on Geology (London: Taylor and Francis, 1859), by John Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Earth and Man (new edition, with corrections and additions; New York: J. B. Alden, 1887), by John William Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Published Papers and Addresses of John Campbell Merriam (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #500, 4 volumes; 1938), by John C. Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Wereld vóór de Schepping van den Mensch (edited Dutch translation; Zutphen: W. J. Theme et cie., n.d.), by Camille Flammarion, ed. by B.C. Goudsmit (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth (in English and French, based on the third edition), by Georges Cuvier, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Essay on the Theory of the Earth (with additional material; New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1818), by Georges Cuvier, contrib. by Robert Jameson and Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Geographical Distribution of Animals, With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas As Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876), by Alfred Russel Wallace
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
• Relics from the Wreck of a Former World: or, Splinters Gathered on the Shores of a Turbulent Planet (published anonymously, but "deduced" from works by Milner and Mantell; New York: W. H. Graham et al., 1847), contrib. by Thomas Milner and Gideon Algernon Mantell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of Evolution, by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg text)
• Science and Hebrew Tradition, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg texts)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.