PALEOBASE 

Blackwell Science Ltd and The Natural History Museum (London) are proud to announce the release of PaleoBase, a new initiative in the presentation of systematic information on fossil organisms. 

PaleoBase represents the marriage of up-to-date systematic information on a collection of over 1500 fossil genera, state-of-the-art colour digital photographs of representative specimens from The Natural History Museum's unrivalled palaeontological collections, and modern relational database technology. With PaleoBase an important new tool for the teaching of life history in a wide variety of advanced secondary, undergraduate and graduate courses (e.g., palaeontology, historical geology, stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, palaeobiogeography) becomes available to students and educators alike. 

The first PaleoBase product will be a Macrofossils database. This will consist of approximately 1000 generic records drawn from the major invertebrate groups. The Macrofossils database will be released in three parts over the next two years as shown below: 

Part 1 (March 2000): Arthropods (non-Trilobite), Brachiopods, Bryozoans, Trace Fossils, and Trilobites 

Part 2 (Fall 2000): Gastropods, Bivalves, Ammonites, Nautiloids, and Belemnites 

Part 3 (Fall 2001): Cnidaria, Echinoderms, Sponges, and "Other" 

Visit the PaleoBase web site for an on-line guided tour and simulation of a few of PaleoBase: Macrofossils' basic features. 

Instructors please note that inspection copies of PaleoBase: Macrofossils will not be available. The online guided tour and simulation demonstrate all of the features and functionality of PaleoBase and will allow you to assess the database's suitability for teaching purposes. 

More information and queries: Anna Van Opstal ; Science Marketing, Blackwell Science Ltd, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EL, UK; Tel: +44 1865 206206; Fax: +44 1865 721205; E-mail:paleobase@blacksci.co.uk 

http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/fossils/fossil1.htm 
The pairs of images presented below illustrates some fossil (left image) and recent (right image) specimens of some insect groups. 

http://www.ambergallery.com/ 
Amber Gallery -Baltic Amber. Fossil Baltic amber with exceptional and rare insect inclusions. 

http://home.earthlink.net/~skurth/AMBER.HTM 
Fossils from New Jersey, including amber. The Amber Room. 

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/wellcome.html 
Amber: Arboreal Gold. By Tammi L. Johnson, Univ. Kentucky. 

http://www.3dotstudio.com/amberhome.html 
Mark R. Meyer 3 Dot Studio amber project. FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions) about amber. 

http://www.acnatsci.org/dinofest/china/china.html 
Fossil Insects, and another fossils, from Liaoning (China). Presented by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

http://www.members.tripod.com/~ Lyall/Carb.html 
Spiders and another arthropods in nodules. Upper Carboniferous sites yielding soft-bodied animals in the North West of England. 

http://www.amnh.org/enews/headl/e2_h10.html 
Ancient Ant in Amber. American Museum Natural History. 

http://www.coloradomtn.edu/campus_rfl/staff_rfl/kohls/eocene.html 
Eocene fossils. 

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_nm/co_flori.htm 
Florissant Fossil Beds - Colorado. 

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_nm/wy_fossi.htm 
Fossil Butte National Monument - Green River Formation - Wyoming. 

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/mazon_creek/ 
Mazon Creek Fossils - Illinois. 

http://home.t-online.de/home/Arnold-Heide/ebrnstrt.htm 
Check this site if your interest is inclusions in Baltic Amber. You can obtain also information about the Neolithic societies in Europe. 
 

• http://www.gplatt.demon.co.uk Garry Platt, Amber Home.
• http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/amber.htm Susie Ward Aber's, World of Amber.
• http://www.kadets.d20.co.edu/~lundberg/amber.html Doug Lundberg Homepage.
• http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/welcome.html Amber: Arboreal Gold.
• http://members.tripod.com/~Snakefly Yale Goldman, The Dead Bug in Amber Club.
• http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/fossils Miocene Insects from Nevada.

http://www.umu.se/envarchlab/ealuinse.html 
Fossil insect analysis. 

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html 
The Tree of Life. A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. Coordinator and Editor: Dr. David R. Maddison (Univ. Arizona); Designers and Programmers: David R. Maddison & Wayne P. Maddison; Managing Editor and Technical Assistant: Katja Sabine-Schulz 

The Tree of Life is a project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other. If you have any inquiries about the project, please visit the homepage or e-mail them at tree@ag.arizona.edu or treegrow@ag.arizona.edu, but as the Editor says "The Tree is under construction. Please have patience: the real Tree took over 3,000,000,000 years to grow!". 

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ 
Social Insects in HTTP://WWW. SI web. 

http://http://www.utoronto.ca/forest/termite/termite.htm 
Urban Entomology Program. Termites of the World. 

http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/gp_index.htm#insects 
Internet Resource Guide for Zoology. Insect systematics. 

http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/tree/orthoptera/orthoptera.html 
Orthoptera, Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships. Neoptera clade is available. 
 
 

• http://ag.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/hexapoda.html Hexapoda.
• http://members.tripod.de/GBechly/phylosys.htm Phylogenetic Systematics of Odonata. Günter Bechly.
• http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/blattari.html Blattoidea.

http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quaternary.html 
Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at the Dept. of Geology, Colby College Studies of Quaternary Environments. 

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/qsi/beetle/beetle.html 
Quaternary Fossil Coleoptera Studies A short teaching module by Alan V. Morgan (Dept. Earth Sciences and Quaternary Sciences........ 

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/schwert/qel/qel.htm 
Quaternary Entomology Laboratory. A lab specializing in the analysis and application of Pleistocene and Holocene insect remains for paleoenvironmental analyses. 

http://www.colby.edu/geology/Beetles.html 
Fossil Beetles in Quaternary and Environmental Studies. Dept. Geology, Colby College. 

http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~saelias/qed.html 
QED - Homepage; QED is a newsletter that keeps people informed of the latest research news and publications in the field of Quaternary Insect studies. It is published twice a year. 

http://www.mus-nh.city.osaka.jp/shiyake/nojiriko-menu.html 
Fossil Insect Research Group for Nojiri-ko Excavation (Osaka, Japan). 

http://www.umu.se/envarchlab/BUGS/QBIB/QBIBFRAM.HTM 
Compiled by P.C. Buckland, G. R. Coope & J. P. Sadler ; Web version by Phil Buckland. Fossil insects (mainly Quaternary) bibliography. 

http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~saelias/elias.html 
Scott A. Elias Home Page, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. 
 
 

• http://www2.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/ap/staff/buckland.html P. Buchland. Dept. Archaeology and Prehistory. Univ. Sheffield. UK. Quaternary Insects.
• http://www.geology.utoronto.ca/faculty/williams.htm N. E. Williams. Univ. Toronto Geology. Reconstruction of Quaternary environments using fossil insects. 

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/invertpaleo/insects/bio29.html 
Geology and Non-vertebrate collections from the University of Texas. Curator: Chris Durden.  

http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/entdesc.htm 
California Academy of Sciences. Entomology Department. Description Of The Collection. 
 
 

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/beetles/biba-k.html 
Aquatic Coleoptera bibliography. The webmaster says "this document is under construction, and it will always be so as long as we continue to write about water beetles !" (more than 600 pages) 

http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/lacmnh/departments/research/entomology/phorids/phorlit.html Phorid Literature. This page is part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County web site. 

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/ncstate/odonata.html 
Odonata Literature. NC State AgNIC Systematic Entomology: a guide to online insect systematic resources. 

http://www.famu.edu/ent/zoraptera/bibliography.htm 
Bibliography of the Zoraptera. Compiled by Michael D. Hubbard; Florida A&M University. 

http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/oum/mwills/refs.html 
Arthropod Phylogeny Literature. Compiled by Matthew A. Wills; Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 

http://marley.biosci.arizona.edu/rtg/arth_bib.htm 
Arthropod Phylogeny Literature. Compiled by R.C. Brusca. 
 

• http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ento/fossilcat/ Catalogue of the fossil flies of the World (Insecta Diptera); by Neal L. Evenhuis: 
• http://www.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/bibhome.html Catalogue of the Neuropterida; by John D. Oswald:
• http://www.oeaw.ac.at/~oetyp/palhome.htm Catalogue of Palaeontological Types in Austrian Collections: 

Journals or reviews where you can reed and obtain papers about fossil insects. 

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/publications/ms_sphecomyrma.html 
American Museum Novitates. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous Amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships (D. Grimaldi et al. 1997, 3208, 43 pp.). 

http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/cr.htm 
Cretaceous Research. All papers published are available. 

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/eau/eautech.htm 
Environmental Archaeology Unit - Technical, Evaluation and Assessment Reports. Insects in Archaeological Sites. 

http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/publ/jrsnz/1996/63.html 
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In this case vol.26 (3): 275-361. Paper about Quaternary fossil faunas, overlapping taphonomies, etc. 

http://www.emory.edu/GEOSCIENCE/HTML/IN-98.Intro.htm 
Ichnology Newsletter. 

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sepm/palaios/  
Palaios. 

http://www.paleo.pan.pl/acta/acta.htm 
Acta Paleontologica Polonica. 
  
http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/entojrnl.html 
Links to Entomological Journals. 

http://members.xoom.com/entomology/journal.htm 
Entomology Journals. This page contains the list of International Entomological Journals published world-wide. 
 

• http://Geobios.univ-lyon1.fr/framemenuuk.htm Geobios.
• http://www.nature.com/ Nature.
• http://www.uv.es/~pardomv/np/ Noticias Paleontológicas (Palaeontological News, SEP - Spain).
• http://www.uv.es/~pardomv/presenpe.htm Palaeontologica Electronica (mirror in Spain).
• http://www.elsevier.nl:80/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/5/5/ Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
• http://www.paleo.pan.pl./pp/pp.htm Palaeontologica Polonica.
• http://www.maik.rssi.ru/journals/paleng.htm Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal.

http://pasat.ocean.univ.gda.pl/~zoolbez/muzeum.htm 
Muzeum Inkluzji w Bursztynie. Museum of Amber Inclusions, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, University of Gdansk - Poland-. At present there are over 4000 pieces of Baltic amber with inclusions in the collection of the Museum. Almost all inclusions are gifts from amber dealers and private collectors. In addition there are some inclusions from Bitterfeld and Dominican amber (in Polish, with R. Szadzewski publications). 

http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/Samogitia/LANKYTINOS_VIETOS/ambermus.en.htm 
The Palanga Amber Museum (Lithuania) has the collection of 15000 inclusions the study of which provides ample material for the investigation of the history of amber and million-year-old flora and fauna. On display are Arthropoda inclusions: centipedes, arachnida, ephemera, termites ants and others. 

http://www.rnac.or.jp/~kohaku/index.html 
Kuji Amber Museum Home Page (Japan). In the main in Japanese. 

• http://dominicana.com/museo-ambar Amber World Museum; Dominican Republic.
• http://www.amnh.org American Museum Natural History (US).
• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ British Museum of Natural History (UK).
• http://www.brost.se/ Swedish Amber Museum.

http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/OS_Homepage 
The Orthopterists' Society Home Page. 

http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/entosoc.html 
Links to another Entomology and Arachnology Societies & Associations. 
 
http://members.tripod.de/GBechly/sgspo.htm 
Specialist Group for Systematic and Phylogenetic Odonatology (SGSPO). 

• http://www.biol.uni.torum.pl/~konrad/index.html Polish Entomological Society.
• http://www.afn.org/~iori/siointro.html Societas Internationalis Odonatologica (SIO).
• http://www.ex.ac.uk/~gjlramel/benhs.html The British Entomology and Natural History Society.
• http://www.coleopsoc.org/ Coleopterist Society. The International Society devoted to the study of beetles.
• http://www.entsoc.org/ The Entomological Society of America.
• http://info.ex.ac.uk/~gjlramle/iussi.html The International Union for the Study of Social Insects.