Vertebrate paleontology is the study of ancient animals with backbones: fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds.
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- Australia's Lost Kingdoms Exhibit from the Australian Museum covering Australia's fossil history from 110 million years ago.
- Angellis Images and information about dinosaur genera as well as some non-dinosaur vertebrate taxa.
- Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known.
- PrehistoricPlanet.com Dinosaur and fossil news and features including interviews with paleontologists and interactive science modules.
- Paleoneurology The study of brain casts of extinct vertebrates.
- Vertebrate Paleontology The Carnegie Museum of Natural History presents current research and news on this topic..
- Palaeozoic Microvertebrates Microvertebrate page from the University of Alberta.
- Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ Provides a discussion on the explanation for the gaps that exist in the fossil record between different groups of vertebrates.
- Laboratory for Environmental Biology: Vertebrate Paleobiology 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.
- Turtles: Business as Usual Article on turtles which were the most abundant and diverse reptiles in Paleocene faunas with about 50 genera known from Paleocene sediments.
- The Archosauria The great archosaur lineage includes crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and many other diapsids. Information on their fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
- Introduction to the Sphenodontidae 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.
- Modern Forms: Basal Amniote Evolution Diagram showing extinctions and diversifications of major groups of amniotes over time.