Links

Stigall Lab at Ohio University

Web resources specific to Cincinnatian paleontology

Dr. Steven Holland’s Stratigraphy Lab (University of Georgia)

• Stratigraphy and Fossils of the Upper Ordovician near Cincinnati, Ohio

Regional Paleontology Resources

• Kentucky Geological Survey: Fossils of Kentucky 
• Ohio Geological Survey: Fossils and fossil collecting in Ohio
• Indiana Geological Survey: Fossils and time

Fossil Collecting Organizations

• Cincinnati: Dry Dredgers This site has many excellent pages of information on fossil identification!
• Kentucky: Kentucky Paleontological Society
• Kentucky: KYANA

Web resources for paleontology in general

• Paleobiology Database
• Paleontology Portal
• Tree of Life Project
• UC Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology’s History of Life

Professional Scientific Societies

• Geological Society of America (GSA)
• International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
• Palaeontological Association
• The Paleontological Society
• SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)

Resources for specific fossil groups

What is a Fossil?

• University of California Museum of Paleontology

Invertebrate Paleontology Tutorials from Dr. Christopher McRoberts (SUNY Cortland University)

• Arthropoda
• Bivalvia
• Brachiopoda
• Bryozoa
• Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, & Other Molluscs
• Cnidarians
• Echinodermata
• Miscellaneous Fossil Groups
• Protista, Eubacteria, & Porifera
• Taphonomy & Preservation
• Trace Fossils

Brachiopods

• Brachnet: All about Brachiopods

Molluscs

• Mollusks – The Paleontological Society

Trilobites

• Trilobite.info

Maps

• Historical Topographic Maps
• Library of Paleogeography 
• PaleoMap Project