Vertebrate paleontology is the study of ancient animals with backbones: fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds.
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Images and information about dinosaur genera as well as some non-dinosaur vertebrate taxa.
The great archosaur lineage includes crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and many other diapsids. Information on their fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
Features collections, illustrations, and fact sheets of extinct fauna.
Provides information on the pleurosaurs and the Tuatara, the only species of sphenodontid alive today and little changed in appearance from the sphenodontids living 150 million years ago.
Provides information on the collection of over 70,000 Pleistocene fossils at the Centennial Museum, primarily from New Mexican cave faunas, with a checklist of Late Pleistocene fossil taxa from the El Paso region.
Microvertebrate page from the University of Alberta.
The study of brain casts of extinct vertebrates.
Dinosaur and fossil news and features including interviews with paleontologists and interactive science modules.
Provides a discussion on the explanation for the gaps that exist in the fossil record between different groups of vertebrates.
A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known.
Article on turtles which were the most abundant and diverse reptiles in Paleocene faunas with about 50 genera known from Paleocene sediments.
Features collections, illustrations, and fact sheets of extinct fauna.
Provides information on the pleurosaurs and the Tuatara, the only species of sphenodontid alive today and little changed in appearance from the sphenodontids living 150 million years ago.
The great archosaur lineage includes crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and many other diapsids. Information on their fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
Article on turtles which were the most abundant and diverse reptiles in Paleocene faunas with about 50 genera known from Paleocene sediments.
Provides information on the collection of over 70,000 Pleistocene fossils at the Centennial Museum, primarily from New Mexican cave faunas, with a checklist of Late Pleistocene fossil taxa from the El Paso region.
Provides a discussion on the explanation for the gaps that exist in the fossil record between different groups of vertebrates.
Dinosaur and fossil news and features including interviews with paleontologists and interactive science modules.
Microvertebrate page from the University of Alberta.
Images and information about dinosaur genera as well as some non-dinosaur vertebrate taxa.
A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known.
The study of brain casts of extinct vertebrates.
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