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Fossil Scientific Name List
Reference Books Used in Identification
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Cacti of the Trans-Pecos & Adjacent Areas by A.Michael Powell and James F. Weedin; Texas Tech University Press, 2004
Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer; Krieger Publishing Company, 1997 (original in 1956)
Review of the Pelycosauria by Alfred Sherwood Romer and Llewellyn I. Price; Ayer Co. Publishers Inc., 1980 (original 1894 Geological Society of America)
The Complete Dinosaur ed by James Farlow and M. K. Brett-Surman; Indiana University Press 1997
The Dinosauria ed by David Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmolska; University of California Press, 1990
Dinosaurs: a global view by Sylvia J Czerkas and Stephen A Czerkas; Dragon’s world Ltd., 1990
Discover Texas Dinosaurs by Charles E. Finsley; Gulf Publishing Company, 1999
The Horned Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson; Princeton University Press 1996
Lone Star Dinosaurs by Louis Jacobs; Texas A&M University Press 1995
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Dr. David Norman; Salamander Books Limited, 1985
National Geographic Dinosaurs by Paul Barrett; National Geographic Society, 1999, ISBN 0-7922-8224-8
Evolutionary Catastrophe: The Science of Mass Extinction by Vincent Courtillot (a specialist in Paleomagnetism); Cambridge University Press, 1999
Ammonites and the Other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway: An Identification Guide by Neal L. Larson, Steven D. Jorgensen, Robert A. Farrar, Peter A. Gerken; Geoscience Press, Inc, 1997
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils by Ida Thompson; Alfred A. Knopf., 1982 reprint 1990
Brachiopoda of the Pennsylvanian System in Nebraska by Carl O. Dunbar & G. E. Condra; Nebraska Geological Survey, Bulletin 5, Second Series 1932
A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas by C. E. Finsley; Gulf Publishing Co., 3rd ed 1999
Handbook of Texas Cretaceous Fossils by W. S. Adkins; University of Texas Bulletin No. 2838, October 8, 1928
Index Fossils of North America by H. W. Shimer and R. R. Shrock; MIT Press, 1944
Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda) by Helen Muir-Wood & G. Arthur Cooper; The Geological Society of America, Memoir 81, October 31, 1960
The Nautiloid Cephalopods of the Pennsylvanian system in the Mid-continent Region by A. K. Miller, Carl O. Dunbar, G. E. Condra; Nebraska Geological Survey, Bulletin 9, Second Series 1933
North American Index Fossils: Invertebrates by Amadeus W. Grabau, and Hervey Woodburn Shimer; A.G. Seiler & Company, 1909
Pennsylvanian Brachiopods and Biostratigraphy in Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountain, New Mexico by Patrick K Southerland and Francis H. Harlow; New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Memoir 27, 1973
Texas Cretaceous Echinoids by Rosemary E. and Thomas J. Akers; Texas Paleontology Series Publication No. 3, Paleontology Section, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, 1987
Texas Cretaceous Ammonites and Nautiloids by Barbara & John Emerson, Rosemary & Thomas Akers; Texas Paleontology Series Publication No. 5, Paleontology Section, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, 1994
Texas Cretaceous Gastropods by Rosemary & Thomas Akers; Texas Paleontology Series Publication No. 6, Paleontology Section, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, 1997
Texas Cretaceous Bivalves 2 by Rosemary & Thomas Akers; Texas Paleontology Series Publication No. 7, Paleontology Section, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, 2002
Texas Fossils: an Amateur Collector’s Handbook: Guidebook 2 by William H. Matthews III; Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, 10th ed 1987
Texas Pennsylvanian Brachiopods by Herbert, Akers, Morton, Hall, Lynch; Texas Paleontology Series Publication No. 4, Paleontology Section, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, 1990
Common Fossils Plants of Western North America by William D. Tidwell; Brigham Young University Press, 1975
Leaves and Stems from Fossil Forests: a Handbook of the Paleobotanical Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Raymond E. Janssen; Popular Science series Vol. 1, Illinois State Museum, 2nd ed 1957
Plants of the Past: A Popular Account of Fossil Plants by Frank Hall Knowlton; AMS Press, 1969
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