A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains

A short museum guide to reading the fossil record period by period, from the Precambrian to the arrival of humans. It explains fossilization, geologic time and the main fossil groups without assuming any background.

Harvey C. Markman

The formations volume of a handbook written for collectors, walking through the rock units period by period and listing the fossils each one yields. Goldring wrote it for people with a hammer and no formal training.

Winifred Goldring

A classroom guide to fossils, with activities on how body fossils form, how trace fossils work, how fossils get dated and how extinction events are read. Each activity comes with a handout you can print.

National Park Service and American Geosciences Institute