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Online Atlas of Diatoms, created in 2023 and contiunually being added to and updated.

This World Database of all species of Foraminifera ever described (recent and fossil), is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms.

This World Ostracoda Database is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all names of marine organisms living today (or extinct since a geologically short time). But the World Ostracoda Databasealso includes freshwater and fossil taxa.

Radiolaria.org is an online database containing information about radiolarians - fossil and recent, with images, descriptions, references, synonyms and links to other online resources

NPS: There are over one million living arthropod species today. Arthropods are invertebrate animals (having no backbone or spine) with a hard, external skeleton (known as an exoskeleton), segmented bodies, and jointed appendages.

From Berkley

Plant macrofossils are preserved remains that are large enough to be visible without a microscope. They include leaf, needle, cone, and stem debris, and can be used to identify plants that previously grew in the area. Plant macrofossil data provide a valuable complement to pollen and faunal data that can be used to reconstruct the terrestrial environment.

DinosaurPictures.org curates high quality, realistic illustrations of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. All credit for images goes to the original authors and creators.

Please note this site has many ads on it, akin to many public facing information sites.

Sister site to Dinosaur Database with same caveats.

From the Natural History Museum, London.
Discover Facts, figures, and images for more than 300 dinosaurs.

From the Amreican Museum of Natural History

The NOW (New and Old Worlds) fossil mammal database contains information about Cenozoic land mammal taxa and localities. The emphasis of the database has been on the European Miocene and Pliocene but North American localities, covering the whole Cenozoic, were added to the public database in 2016. African localities are currently being added and updated, and the temporal scale is also becoming wider for both Eurasia and Africa, with Pleistocene and Paleogene localities being added into the database.

British Antartic Survey

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology provides open access to searchable PDF files of all 53 published volumes. Volumes can be downloaded in their entirety or as individual chapters.

The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology provides morphologic, taxonomic, systematic, stratigraphic, and biogeographic information/data on organisms comprising all the “invertebrate” phyla with a significant fossil record, as well as certain unicellular organisms, e.g., “Protoctista”, “Protista”, and Eubacteria/Archaea. Entire volumes or individual chapters of each volume can be viewed and downloaded.

The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology is published by the Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas, and receives financial support from the Paleontological Society.

All content is provided open access with a CC BY license.

Treatise Online publishes chapters prepared for parts of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology as they are ready, rather than waiting for an entire hard copy Treatise volume to be printed. Chapters from the following Treatise parts are completed, nearing completion, or in preparation: Part B (protista), Part E (hypercalcified sponges), Part F (Cnidaria), Part G (bryozoans), Part J (paleozoic gastropoda), Part L (ammonoids), Part M (coleiods), Part N (bivalves), Part P (chelicerates), Part R (decapods), Part T (crinoids), Part V (graptolithines).

Printing of the hard copy Treatise volumes will continue as usual, with the opportunity for updating chapters published in the Treatise Online before going to press.

Transnational cooperation is the future of the past

The Paleobiology Database is a public database of paleontological data that anyone can use, maintained by an international non-governmental group of paleontologists. You can explore the data online in the Navigator, which lets you filter fossil occurrences by time, space, and taxonomy, and displays their modern and paleogeographic locations; or you can download the data to your own computer to do your own analyses.

University of California, Berkeley
Covering many different aspects of Paleontology.

American Museum of Natural History Paleontology collections

This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. We have gathered many different resources into this single entry "portal" to paleontological information on the Internet.

Identify fossils and explore the diversity and history of life on Earth. From the Paleontological Research Institution

Fossils across geological time presented in multiple contexts of geological history, the tree of life, paleobiology and evolution. The Virtual Fossil Museum is an educational resource providing an ever-growing extensive collection of fossil images.

To advance the study of the fossil record through scientific research, education, and advocacy.

Info: info@paleobiodb.org

A communications system for paleontologists

The Paleontological Association of Georgia (PAG) is a scientific, non-profit, community-based organization devoted to the study of Georgia’s paleontological resources.