Vertebrate Paleontology Collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History

SUGGESTED REFERENCES FOR PALEONTOLOGICAL TOPICS

Abbott, R. Tucker. 1979. American Seashells. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York.

Andrew, Peter. 1990. Owls, Caves, and Fossils: Predation, Preservation, and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves with an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas from Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset, UK. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Benton, Michael J. 1990. Vertebrate Paleontology. Harper Collins Academic, London.

Boardman, Richard S., Alan H. Cheetham, and Albert J. Rowell, eds. 1987. Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Palo Alto, California.

Carroll, Robert L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York.

Case, Gerard R. 1982. A Pictorial Guide to Fossils. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York.

Cook, C. Wythe. 1959. Cenozoic Echinoids of the Eastern United States. Geological Survey Paper 321. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Fastovsky, David E. and David B. Weishampel. 1996. The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Fenton, Carroll Lane, and Mildred Adams Fenton. 1989. The Fossil Book (revised edition). Doubleday, New York.

Haynes, Gary. 1991. Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Holman, J. Alan. 1995. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America. Oxford University Press, New York.

Hilderbrand, M. 1974. Analysis of Vertebrate Structure. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Hurlbut, C.S. 1985. Manual of Mineralogy (20th edition). John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Kocsis, Frank A., Jr. 1997. Vertebrate Fossils: A Neophytes's Guide. IBIS GRAPHICS, Palm Harbor, Florida.

Kurten, Bjorn, and Elaine Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene Mammals of North America. Columbia University Press, New York.

MacFadden, Bruce J. 1992. Fossil Horses. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Romer, Alfred Sherwood. 1966. Vertebrate Paleontology (3rd edition). University of Chicago Press.

Romer, Alfred Sherwood. 1970. The Vertebrate Body. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia.

Savage, R.J.G., and M.R. Long. 1986. Mammal Evolution. Facts on File Publications, New York.

Thomas, M.C. 1992. Fossil Vertebrates—Beach and Bank collecting for Amateurs (revised edition). Florida Paleontological Society, Gainesville, Florida.

Shipman, Pat. 1981. Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy and Paleoecology. Harvard University Press.

Stewart, Willson N., and Gar W. Rothwell. 1993. Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Weishampel, David B., Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmolska. 1990. The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Brayfield, Lelia, and William Brayfield. 1993. A Guide for Identifying Florida Fossil Shells and Other Invertebrates (3rd edition). Florida Paleontological Society, Gainesville, Florida.

Brown, Robin C. 1988. Florida's Fossils. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida.

Hulbert, Richard C. 1992. A Checklist of the Fossil Vertebrates of Florida. Papers in Paleontology No 6. Florida Paleontology Society, Gainesville, Florida.

Olsson, Axel, and Anne Harbison. 1979. Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida (reprinted). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph No. 18. Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., Huntington, New York.

Olsson, Axel. 1967. Some Tertiary Mollusks from South Florida and the Caribbean. Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York.

Petuch, Edward J. 1994. Atlas of Florida Fossil Shells. Chicago Spectrum Press, Evanston, Illinois.

Sinibaldi, Robert W. 1998. Fossil Diving in Florida's Waters or any other Waters Containing Prehistoric Treasures. Published by Robert Sinibaldi, St. Petersburg, FL.

Webb, S. David. 1974. Pleistocene Mammals of Florida. University of Florida Presses, Gainesville, Florida.

Appelbaum, B. 1991. Guide to Environmental Protection of Collections. Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut.

Backman, K. 1992. Conservation Concerns. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Child, R.E. 1994. Conservation of Geological Collections. Authors and Archetype Publications, Ltd., London.

Converse, Howard H. Jr. 1994. Handbook of Paleo-Preparation Techniques (revised by Russell McCarty). Florida Paleontological Society, Gainesville, Florida.

Cronyn, J.M. 1990. The Elements of Archaeological Conservation. Routledge, New York.

Florian, Kronkright & Norton. 1990. The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Material. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Kummel, Bernhard, and David Raup, eds. 1965. Handbook of Paleontological Techniques. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco.

Leiggi, Patrick, and Peter May, eds. 1994. Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, New York.

MacFall & Wollin. 1972. Fossils for Amateurs, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York.

Quinn, J.T. 1947. Rubber Molds and Plaster Casts in a Paleontological Laboratory. Chicago Natural History Museum Press, Chicago.

Rixon, A.E. 1976. Fossil Animal Remains. Athlone Press, London.

Sease, C. 1994. A Conservation Manual for Field Archaeologists. UCLA Press, Los Angeles.

American Fisheries Society. 1991. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada (5th edition). American Fisheries Society Special Publication 20, Bethesda, Maryland.

Balkwill, Darlene McQuaig, and Stephen L. Cumbaa. 1992. A Guide to the Identification of Postcranial Bones of Bos taurus and Bison bison. Syllogeus No. 71, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa.

Bass, William M. 1987. Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual of the Human Skeleton (3rd edition). Special Publication No. 2. Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, Missouri.

Cannon, Debbi Lee. 1987. Marine Fish Osteology: A Manual for Archaeologists. Department of Anthropology Publication No. 18. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Davis, Simon J.M. 1987. The Archaeology of Animals. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Getty, Robert. 1975. Sisson and Grossman's The Anatomy of the Domestic Animals (5th edition). W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.

Gilbert, B. Miles. 1990. Mammalian Osteology (second printing). Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia Missouri.

Gilbert, B. Miles, Larry D. Martin, and Howard G. Savage. 1981. Avian Osteology. Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, Missouri..

Hesse, Brian, and Paula Wapnish. 1985. Animal Bone Archaeology. Taraxacum Inc., Washington, D.C.

Hillson, Simon. 1986. Teeth. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Jones, J. Knox, and Richard W. Manning. 1992. Illustrated Key to Skulls of Genera of North American Land Mammals. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock.

Kent, Bretton W. 1994. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region. Egan, Rees, and Boyer, Inc., Columbia, Maryland.

Kozuch, Laura, and Cherry Fitzgerald. 1989. "A Guide to Identifying Shark Centra from Southeastern Archaeological Sites". Southeastern Archaeology, 8(2):146-157.

Olsen, Stanley J. 1979. Osteology for the Archaeologist. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Harvard University, Vol 56, nos. 1-5.

No. 1 Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites

No. 2 Fish, Amphibian, and Reptile Remains from Archaeological Sites

No. 3 The American Mastodon and Wooly Mammoth

No. 4 North American Birds: Skulls and Mandibles

No. 5 North American Birds: Postcranial Skeletons

von den Driesch, Angela. 1976. A Guide to the Measurement of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology No. 1, Harvard University, No. 1.

Schmid, Elisabeth. 1972. Atlas of Animal Bones for Prehistorians, Archaeologists, and Quaternary Geologists. Elsevier Publishing Co., New York.

Searfoss, Glenn. 1995. Skulls and Bones. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Sobolik, Kristin, and D. Gentry Steele. 1996. A Turtle Atlas to Facilitate Archaeological Identification. Fenske Companies, Rapid City, South Dakota.

Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin. A list of various articles and publications on Florida natural history, including paleontology. Inquiries may be made to Rhoda Bryant, Department of Natural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

Florida Paleontological Society Publications: The Plaster Jacket, Special Publications, and the Quarterly Newsletter. "Prep Talk," (in the FPS Quarterly Newsletter) contains selected articles on fossil preparation and conservation by Russ McCarty. Inquiries regarding these publications should be directed to the Florida Paleontological Society, c/o Florida Museum of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Newsletter of the Paleontology Section of the N.S.S. Contact the National Speleogical Society, 2813 Cave Ave., Huntsville, AL 35810-4431.

Pony Express Florida Fossil Horse Newletter. For information on subscribing to the newsletter or about the Thomas Farm Fossil Horse Dig contact Erika Simons.