Geology 220
Invertebrate Paleontology

University of Regina

Department of Geology

Instructions for paleo-reconstruction research paper

Labs - Updates, pictures, and more information

Class Project - paleoecology of the Indian Springs Shale member

Internet resources

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

A great site to discover the diversity of fossils and the history of life. The Phylogeny-Diversity of Life Through Time and Geological time pages are excellent and should be viewed.

PaleoNet -http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/Paleonet/index.html

A gateway to paleontological web and ftp sites, listservers, software, museums, societies, databases, events, images. Also has the electronic journal Palaeontologica electronica and research resources classified by geological period.

The Paleontological Society - http://www.paleosoc.org/

The largest paleontology organization - Information about the Society's activities and publications as well as an annotated list of links to museums, organizations, journals, sources of research funding, databases and special interest groups. Publishes the Journal of Paleontology and Paleobiology

The Palaeontological Association - http://www.palass.org/

UK's contribution to paleontology and home to the journal Palaeontology

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology - http://tyrrell.magtech.ab.ca/

A great paleo site for discovering fossils with marvelous graphics and a Fossil Encyclopedia - but requires the Flash plug-in.

The Field Museum, Chicago - http://www.fmnh.org/

One of the world's great natural history museums- collections of more than 20 million specimens. A very nice interactive page entitled life over time.

Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History's Paleobiology - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/

One of the leading centers for paleontological research in the world. Great Burgess Shale page (home to most of the world's specimens) and Gopher Menus on Brachiopods, plants, and algae