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Casts & Molds

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Drying & Desiccation

Freezing

Impressions

Molecular fossils

Permineralization

Reference

Trace fossils

Wax & Asphalt

Fossils: Window to the past


Reference


"Ancient Dung" http://www.earthsky.com/1996/es960523.htmll

Arens, Nan. "Paleontology lab manual" UC Berkeley, 1996.

Allison, Peter A. & Derek E. G. Briggs. 1991. Preservation of Organic Biomolecules, Taphonomy: Releasing the Data Locked in the Fossil Record. Plenum Press, New York, NY.

Babin, Claude. 1980. Elements of palaentology. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.

Black, Rhona M. 1977. The Observerís book of Fossils. Frederick Warne, London.

Briggs, E.G.Derek. Extraordinary Fossils. American Scientist 79:130-141.

Fenton, Carroll Lane and Mildred Adams Fenton. 1958. The fossil book. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York.

Fortney, Richard. 1982. Fossils: The Key to the Past. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Cincinnati.

Goldring, Winifred. 1929. Handbook of Paleontology for Beginners and Amateurs. The University of State of New York, Albany.

Lane, N. Gary. 1992. Life of the Past. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York.

MacFall, Russell P. and Jay C. Wollin. 1983. Fossils for Amateurs. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Paul, Chris. 1980. The natural history of fossils. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London.

Pinna, Giovanni. 1985. The illustrated encyclopedia of fossils. New York: Facts on File.

Rixon, A. E. 1976. Fossil Animal Remains. The Athlone Press of the University of London. London.

Stearn, W.Colin, Carroll, L.Robert. 1989. Paleontolgy: The Record of Life. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.

Shimer, Hervey Woodburn. 1929. An introduction to the study of fossils. The Macmillan Company. New York.

Simpson, G. G. 1983. Fossils and the History of Life. Scientific American Books. New York.

Ziegler, B. 1983. Introduction to Palaeobiology: General Palaeontology. John Wiley & Sons, New York.


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