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Note that times have changed since I first compiled this list. Google is now available. If you want particular information, e.g. "trilobites", I would go there first. The first two sites returned by Google are the older version of "Guide to the Orders of Trilobites" and the new one (listed below)!

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Austin and Texas

• At the University of Texas at Austin: The Texas Natural Science Center. See also the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory and the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory.
• University of Texas: Geology Department
• UT Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas geological maps)
• Paleontological Society of Austin
• Dallas Museum of Natural History
• Dallas Paleontological Society
• Arlington Archosaur Site. You too can help excavate for dinosaurs, right in the middle of the Metroplex.
• Houston Gem and Mineral Society. They have a very active paleontological section.

National Organizations

• American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
• South Central Federation of Mineral Societies
• American Lands Access Association A group created to legally respond to rising regulation of land and denial of use by government land management agencies.
• Special Congress Representing Involved Bulletin Editors (S.C.R.I.B.E.). An organization committed to the communication between gem, mineral, and earth science societies.

News

• Fossil News: Journal of Amateur Paleontology
• Scientific American News

Periods

• Virtual Silurian Reef
• Fossils of Kentucky: Devonian Period
• Cretaceous Fossils

Locations

• For state by state information, see map
  
  
• USGS Map of Topography and Terrain. A very nifty site for an overview of US Geology.
• National Atlas. All kinds of maps.
  
  
• Collecting Fossils in California
• Ancient Life Found in Kansas Rocks
• Louisiana Fossil Page
• New York Paleontology
• Falls of the Ohio State Park
• Dinosaurs and Fossils: Utah Geological Survey
• Plant Fossils of West Virginia
• West Virginia Plant Fossils
• FossilGuy.com (Mid-atlantic locations)
• Mazon Creek Fossils
   
• Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation
• Canada Fossils (Sales)
• UK Fossil Locations. Excellent information for English collecting.
• Fossils of the Gault Clay and Folkestone Beds of Kent, UK
• Geology of the Jurassic Cliffs, West Dorset, UK
• Yorkshire Coast Fossils (Sales)
   

Clubs Outside Texas

• United States
• For state by state information, see map
  
  
• The Paleontological Society
• AL - Birmingham Paleontological Society
• AL - Alabama Paleontological Society
• CA - The Fossils for Fun Society
• CA - Southern California Paleontological Society
• CA - The San Diego Gem Mineral and Gem Society
• CO - Western Interior Paleontological Society
• FL - Manasota Fossil Club
• FL - The Tampa Bay Mineral and Science Club
• FL - Florida Fossil Hunters
• FL - Fossil Club of Miami
• FL -Southwest Florida Fossil Club
• IL - Paleontology Group, Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois
• MD - Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club
• MD - Maryland Geological Society
• MO - Eastern Missouri Society of Paleontology
• NC - North Carolina Fossil Club
• NC - East Coast Fossil Club
• NJ - New Jersey Paleontolgoical Society
• NM - New Mexico Friends of Paleontology
• NY - New York Paleontological Society
• OH - Dry Dredgers Homepage. Good info on Cincinnatian, see especially the crinoid crowns.)
• OK - Broken Arrow Paleo Society. Great information on Okalahoma.
• PA - Delaware Valley Paleontological Society
• SC - Black River Fossils
• UT - Utah Friends of Paleontology
   
• Canada
• British Columbia Paleontological Alliance
  
• Victoria Paleontology Society
   
• United Kingdom
• Discovering Fossils (UK) This is an excellent web site with a great deal of useful information.

Museums and Universities

• For state by state information, see map
  
  
• Florida Museum of Natural History
• Calvert Marine Museum
  
• Aurora Fossil Museum
  
• Buffalo Museum of Science
  
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
• Mid-America Paleontology Society (MAPS)
• The Paleontological Society
• Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of Natural History
• Smithsonian Dept. of Paleobiology
• Dept. of Paleontology, Natural History Museum, London
• Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
• Fossil Vertebrates in the Burke Museum
• International Organisation of Palaeobotany
• Paleobiological Fund
• Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center
• Univ. of Nebraska State Museum - Vertebrate Paleontology
• Southern California Paleontological Society
• Saint-Petersburg Paleontological Laboratory
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The (SVP)
• University of the Witwatersrand - Bernard Price Institute's Museum of Palaeontology
• Vertebrate Paleontology - University of Texas at Austin
• Non-vertebrate Paleontology - University of Texas at Austin
• Palaeobotanical Research Group - University Münster (Germany)
• Paleontological Society
• Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
• Paleobotany Collection
• Russian Academy of Sciences - Paleontological Institute
• Museum of Geology, SD School of Mines
• Paleontological Research Institution (PRI)
• Pioneer Trails Regional Museum
• Lake Temiscamingue Fossil Centre
• Paleobotany - Yale Peabody Museum
• Palaeontological Association, The
• Morden and District Museum
• George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries
• Paleontology Institute - Universitat Erlangen (Germany)
• Grand River Museum
• Fundy Geological Museum
• University of Arizona
• Tate Geological Museum
• Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.
• Palaeontology Research Group - University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
• Calvin College Mastodon Page
• Petersburg Paleontological Laboratory
• Geobiology of Polar Latitude Eocene Forests Project
• Dry Dredgers Homepage (good info on Cincinnatian, see esp. the crinoid crowns.

Species

• The Tree of Life
• A Tree of Life, Science special issue.
• The Virtual Fossil Museum

Vertebrates

Dinosaurs

• The Tree of Life: Dinosauria
• Paul Sereno's Dinosaur Site
• Discovering Dinosaurs
• Dinosaur Treks
• Dinosaur Trackways and Trace Fossils
• Dinobase
• Zoom Dinosaurs
• Dann's Dinosaur Reconstructions
• BBC Online: Walking with Dinosaurs
• Dinosaur Recovery Bureau
• Willo, the Dinosaur with a Heart
• Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
• Dinosauria On-Line
• Journal of Dinosaur Paleontology
• Dinosaur World
• Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth
• Dinosaur Trace Fossils
• Beri's Dinosaur World
• Hadrosaurus foulkii: Discovering the World's First Full Dinosaur Skeleton
• DinoQuest Sahara
• National Geographic: Dinorama
• Dinosaur Eggs
• Cretaceous Dinosaurs
• Dinosaur Illustrations
• Dinosaur Hall
• Dinosauria, The
• World Book Encyclopedia: Search for Dinosaurs
• Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
• Kinetosaurs
• Bambiraptor
• Parasaurolophus Sounds and Images Page

Plesiosaurs and Mosasaurs

• The Plesiosaur Directory Very extensive site, lots of images.

Mammals

• The Tree of Life: Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives
• Midwestern U.S. 16,000 Years Ago
• Pleistocene Animals of the Midwestern U.S.
• Pleistocene Mammal Shop, The
• Sabretooths!
• Saber-Toothed Cats
• Smilodon
• Ice Age Animals: Mastodons
• Mastodons and Other Megatherms Hunted by the Early Amerindians
• Interesting Facts About The Woolly Mammoth
• Fossils at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
• Mammoths
• Mammoth Site Museum
• Unnatural Museum: Of Mastodons, Mammoths
• Ground Sloths
• UnMuseum: Giant Sloth
• Dire Wolves
• Charlotte, the Vermont Whale

Fish and Sharks

• Smithsonian Fossil Shark Tooth Key
• Fish of the Bear Gulch Limestone
• Steve's Fossil Shark Teeth (Dealer)
• The American Elasmobranch Society
  

Invertebrates

• Dawn of Animal Life
• Paleontological Exhibit
• The Echinoid Directory
• Rudist Database
• The Anomalocaris Homepage . By the same the same guy who brought you Guide to the Orders of Trilobites.
• Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
• Mr.B.Bug's Trilobite World
• Oklahoma Trilobites
• Cincinnati Trilobite Fragment Identifier
• Per Hansson's Trilobite Gallery
• Introduction to the Trilobita
• Kevin's Trilobites
• Trilobites.com
• Paleo Project: A Collection of Trilobites
• Semi-Compleat Trilobite, The
• Trilobites in Murchison's Siluria

Plants

• Fossils and Petrified Wood
• Paleobotany Collection
• Paleobotany Section
• Virtual Paleobotany
• Web Directory: Links for Palaeobotanists
• Plant Fossils of West Virginia
• West Virginia Plant Fossils

Other Lists

• Jack Mount: Paleontology & Fossil Resources. Includes many book references.
• DMOZ/Earth Science/Paleontology
• Simon Biggs Vast Collection of Links
• Dino Russ's Lair - The Earthnet Info Server
• Kuban's Paleo Place
• Paleo Ring

Educational

• Jobaria
• Educational Programs at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Discovery.com: A variety of resources, not all fossil
• Paleobiology Database. Database of marine and terrestrial animals and plants.
• Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center
• Texas Memorial Museum Teacher Resources
• Paleo Art - Smithsonian
• Fossil Web - Your Resource for Fossil Identification
• Mineral Wells Fossil Park Great place to collect west of Dallas, TX. Admisson is free.
• Educational Games
• Fossil games at ABC.com.
• The Learning Zone - Fossil games and activities at the University Oxford Museum of Natural History.

Trades and Dealers

• Cold Creek Fossils
• Bone Clones
• The Bone Room
• Canada Fossils
• Extinctions Fossils
• Fossil Company, The
• Fossil Fanatics
• Fossil Finds
• FossilWeb.com (identification)
• Henskens Fossils
• Ian's Famous Fossils
• JT's Shark Teeth
• MegMawL
• MountainMegalodons
• Nature Source, The
• Natural Canvas
• R.A. Langheinrich Meteorites and Fossils
• PaleoClones
• Paleo Direct
• PaleoPages
• PaleoSearch, Inc.
• Paleo Tools, wide assortment of air scribes.
• PrehistoricPlanet
• Pretty Butte Paleontology
• Saint-Petersburg Paleontological Laboratory
• SharksTeethforSale.com
• Skulls Unlimited
• Skullduggery, Inc.
• Steve's Fossil Shark Teeth
• Stone Company
• Stone Jungle, The
• Stones & Bones Fossils
• Triebold Paleontology, Inc.
• Two Guys Minerals and Fossils
• Verhulst's Fossils (Eggs)
• Yorkshire Coast Fossils