Glen J. Kuban

This site provides links to Internet resources on fossil verebrates--animals with backbones. Included are ancient fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles, except for dinosaurs, which are covered in a separate site at Glen's Dinosaur Den .

Contents

Vertebrates in General


Fish


Amphibians


Reptiles


Mammals


Birds

Vertebrates in General

• FMNH Vertebrates - Search the vertebrate paleontology collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History, the University of Florida, and the Florida Geological Survey. Also included is a searchable index for the Pierce Brodkorb Ornithology Collection of fossil birds.

  Fossil Record of the Vertebrates, UCMP, California

• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology - The SVP server. Includes general information about SVP and back issues of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology New Bulletin.

• Vertebrate Bibliography - A searchable SVP Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates. This useful resource on vertebrate paleontology covers 22,000 references published between 1981 and 1990.

Fish

• Electronic Prehistoric Shark Museum

• Mesozoic Fish - By Dr. Mark Wilson of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

• WMNH - Fish and Amphibian Galleries. - Fish from Kansas and the Green River formation. Also some sharks.

• Fossils Uncovered, by Alex and Jennifer Johnson - Fish from the Green River formation, Wyoming.

Amphibians

• WMNH - Fish and Amphibian Galleries - Fish and Amphibian Galleries.

Reptiles (except dinosaurs)

• Sea-monster or Shark? by Glen Kuban - Addresses claims that a modern plesiosaur may have been netted in 1977 off the coast of New Zealand. Enquiring minds want to know.

Mammals

• Ashfall Fossil Beds - An essay on the vertebrate fossils found in Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in Nebraska.

• Life in the Oligocene - - Discusses Oreodonts, Hyaenodons, and other mammals from the White River Formation.

• Vermont Whales - In 1849, near the town of Charlotte in rural Vermont, the remains of a Pleistocene age beluga whale were discovered during a railroad construction project.

Birds

• Archaeopteryx Links - A large menu of links on the famous fossil bird Archaeopteryx.

• All About Archaeopteryx - A detailed article on Archaeopteryx, by Chris Nedin.

• Feathered dinosaur fossil articles - By Malcolm W. Browne