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USGS Fossils and Fossil Collecting: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eastern/fossils.html
Learning From The Fossil Record: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/fosrec.html
Site Index for USGS paleontology: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/siteindex.shtml
Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/
Greb, S.F., R.T. Hendricks, and D.R. Chesnut, Jr., 1993, Fossil Beds of the Falls of the Ohio, Special Publication 19, Series XI, Kentucky Geological Survey: Lexington, KY.
Progression of Life Poster and Greb, Stephen F., 1989, Guide to "Progression of Life" (Poster commemorating the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Kentucky Geological Survey), Special Publication 13, Kentucky Geological Survey: Lexington, KY.
Weishampel, D.B., and Luther Young, 1996, Dinosaurs of the East Coast, Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland.
Ransom, J. E., 1964, Fossils in America: Their nature, origin, identification and classification and a range guide to collecting sites, Harper and Row, Publishers: New York, New York.
Parker, S., 1990, The Practical Paleontologist. A Step-by-step guide to finding, studying, and interpreting fossils, Simon and Schuster: New York, New York.
Murray, M., 1967, Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All Fifty States, The Macmillan Company: Toronto, Canada.
Lichter, G., 1993, Fossil Collector's Handbook: Finding, Identifying, Preparing, Displaying, Sterling Publishing Co.: New York, NY.
Fenton, C.L. and M.A. Fenton, 1989, The Fossil Book: A record of prehistoric life, Doubleday: New York, New York.
Fortey, R., 1997, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Alfred A. Knopf: New York, New York.
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