Open Directory - Science: Earth Sciences: Paleontology: Vertebrates
See also: This category in other languages: - Provides information on Proganochelys which is the most primitive turtle known, first appearing about 210 million years ago. - Images and information about dinosaur genera as well as some non-dinosaur vertebrate taxa. - Exhibit from the Australian Museum covering Australia's fossil history from 110 million years ago. - Learn about prehistoric, recently extinct, and endangered species of vertebrates. - 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. - Diagram showing extinctions and diversifications of major groups of amniotes over time. - A multi-entry guide to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, browsable by period, group, name or location. - 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. - Information on the crocodile Sarchosuchus imperator with interactive games and movie clips. - The great archosaur lineage includes crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and many other diapsids. Information on their fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology. - A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known. - Provides a discussion on the explanation for the gaps that exist in the fossil record between different groups of vertebrates. - Article on turtles which were the most abundant and diverse reptiles in Paleocene faunas with about 50 genera known from Paleocene sediments. - Research and collections information from the VP lab of the Texas Memorial Museum (UT, Austin). - The Carnegie Museum of Natural History presents current research and news on this topic..
