| Paleomarine Biology BIOL 253 Useful Links for
the Course |
The following selected web might prove useful to you. The sites are organized into groups by the general category to which they belong. As you visit any one of these sites, you will almost certainly find more links within the site that will take you out of the general category in which you first entered. (That is the nature of web links!) Also, it goes without saying that many more sites than these are available, and you will undoubtedly find others as you explore. Please let me know if you find a particularly good site that you think I should include. Also, please let me know of any listed sites that are no longer active (i.e., dead sites).
Rocks
USGS general primer on the three basic rock types and how they form
Sedimentary (Igneous, Metamorphic) (lots of information about composition and origin, alpha listing link takes you to galleries)
Tours of Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic (thorough; the igneous tour is not as nice as the others and the authors get kind of silly at times)
General Geologic Concepts and Reference Sites
USGS site on Plate Tectonics (a good concept to know)
USGS publication on the information potential of fossils and rocks (perhaps a bit dated)
Online dictionary of geologic terms (unfortunately not searchable but this is the best one I have found)
Geologic Time
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology geologic time page (great, just follow the links)
Virtual Fossil Museum geologic history page (excellent site, follow the links)
Geologic time for biologists (yes, the author actually uses this term for this link)
Geological Society of America timescale (printable .pdf format available here)
USGS publication on geologic time (a bit dated now, but it still conveys some of the concepts quite well)
Paleogeographic Reconstructions (and more)
Scotese site (click on links to see ancient Earth maps and click on "More Info" to read more; it's worthwhile to click on the "Climate History" link)
Blakely site (mollewide maps are most comparable to Scotese maps; click on link at bottom of this page to see other projections)
Minerals (included for thoroughness)
USGS basic mineral site covering the major rock forming mineral
WebMineral (very thorough)
Mineral Galleries (follow alpha links to mineral pages with lots of information)
Fossils (see below for taxonomic listing)
On preservation and bias in the fossil record
More on biases in the fossil record
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology taxa form (navigate the links to the group you want; look for links to fossils, life history, systematics, etc.)
Virtual Fossil Museum Tree of Life (not all groups are linked, yet; navigate to the group you want and follow additional links to fossil images)
Yale University fossil image gallery
Fossil Identification
U of Kentucky Fossil ID Keys (keys by shape and by descriptive terminology)
Colossal Fossil Site (quirky identification pages by an amateur collector, included here because there is little else online)
Fossils by Taxa
Bacteria
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Stepko (Steve) Golubic's endolithic bacteria pages
Micropaleontology
University College London Micropaleontology (good general site with links to various groups)
Forams
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Radiolaria
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Diatoms
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
UMichigan Great Lakes Diatoms Images
Coccolithophores
Sponges and Archaeocyatha
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
UC Berkeley pages on choanoflagellates
SUNY Cortland (good introduction)
Cnidarians
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (anthozoa)
UC Berkeley pages on choanoflagellates (all cnidarians)
SUNY Cortland (introduction and paleoecology discussion)
Brachiopods
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
SUNY Cortland (introduction, morphology, and classification)
Dry Dredgers Cincinnati Brachiopod Pages (a private group that collects in SW Ohio; we'll see many of these same types)
Bryozoans
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
SUNY Cortland (introduction, morphology, and classification)
Dry Dredgers Cincinnati Brachiopod Pages (a private group that collects in SW Ohio; we'll see many of these same types)
Links for sites dealing with living and fossil taxa
Several links to trace fossil reports (not many marine related, though)
Arthropods
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (link to arthropod systematics page, follow links there to the various groups)
University College London Ostracode Site
What are Trilobites? (great site for introduction to the group, morphology, paleoecology, etc.)
Excellent Eurypterid Fossils (R. A. Langheinrich's online museum of paleontology has many excellent fossil images)
Echinoderms
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (link to echinoderm systematics page, follow links there to the various groups)
Tree of Life (link to echinoderm groups, not all classes are presented)
Stanford Echinoid Site (link to Stanford research group's anatomy & physiology page)
Crinoids from Crawfordsville, IN (Virtual Fossil Museum page of crinoids from this world-famous site in west-central Indiana)
Molluscs
Yale University images of fossil molluscs
Reconstructing Ancient Sedimentary Environments
Georgia Perimeter College course site (Pam Gore)
UC Davis course site (Dawn Sumner)
Seoul National University photo gallery of physical structures
Seoul National University photo gallery of biological/chemical structures
U Texas Arlington experimental trace fossil site (applied uniformitarianism!)