Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life

Coloured plates of fossils drawn from two earlier atlases, with Mantell's descriptions of every specimen. A working reference for anyone trying to put a name to shells, plants and bones found in rock.

Gideon Algernon Mantell

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