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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley
 Some 'dangerous' rocks, Drakensburg, South Africa (Photo © G. Lloyd, 2004) Here is some stuff I have found useful during my time in palaeontology: Journals: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Free PDFs of articles from 2002 - present AMNH Digital Library Search and download ALL issues of American Museum Novitates & Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Archaeopteryx Not free, I only list this as it is impossible to find using a Google search Brad McFeeters' Site Listing of free online papers covering Mesozoic vertebrates; typically dinocentric Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum Japanese Museum journal which publishes palaeo contributions in English, free PDFs from 2001 - present DigiZeitschriften German site that seems to include free PDFs of old German journals, a long shot, but might have that one paper you are after... Museum of Paleontology Contributions (University of Michigan) I think this includes free PDFs of all issues, try the search engine to find what you are after Smithsonian Contributions Search and download ALL issues of Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology and other Smithsonian publications Fortsas Books Exclusive seller of Fieldiana The Polyglot Paleontologist English translations of various palaeo stuff (vertebrate-/dinocentric) Google scholar Can't claim to use it much, but still picks up stuff that wok misses Books: Bookfinder Really useful for tracking down the kinds of obscure and out of print books that only a palaeontologist would be interested in Paleo Publications A purveyor of obscure palaeo stuff Graham Newland Natural History Books Another purveyor of obscure palaeo stuff Bibliovault American site that holds PDFs of various scientific books, your institution has to be signed up though Databases: The Paleobiology Database The ultimate palaeo database, if only some academics weren't so reticent about sharing their data... FishBase No fossils here, but a comprehensive resource for extant taxa Cladestore UoB hosted database of cladistic datasets for fossil taxa Peter Wagner's Site A probably better collection, compiled by Pete Wagner and used in many of his publications Treebase Frustrating to navigate, but has a lot of (mostly neontological) cladistic datasets Phylogenetics software PAUP (not free, PC and Mac versions available) The software of choice for palaeontologists wanting to perform parsimony analyses PaupUp (free, PC only) GUI front-end for the PC version of the above (imitates the easier to use Mac-version) MacClade (not free, Mac only) Useful for editing matrices, tracing character changes etc. Mesquite (free, Mac and PC downloads) More powerful and versatile, but less easy to use version of the above FigTree (free, Mac and PC downloads) Makes pretty, publication-quality trees TreeView (free, Mac and PC downloads) Pretty old now, but still a useful utility for making and editing treefiles TreeStat (free, Mac and PC downloads) Calculates various simple metrics on phylogenetic trees TreeEdit (free, Mac only) Tinker with branch lengths and the like RadCon (free, Mac only) Implements reduced consensus, double decay and various other analyses CLANN (free, Mac and PC downloads) Supertree software, implements various methods Other palaeo stuff: The Almighty PalAss You simply can't go around calling yourself a palaeontologist until you've joined* Paleonet Archives Find out what palaeontologists blather about in their 'spare' time (includes job postings) GeoWhen Phenomenally useful compendium of stratigraphy and dates Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates Self explanatory really; goes farther back than most web resources Other random useful stuff: XE Currency converter Useful for working out what stuff costs in other countries/fiddling expense claims OED If it's not in here it's not a word, end of Google analytics Free service that tells you about visitors to your site, where they're from, what they look at and for how long Fluff (UoB only) Useful way of sharing large files (up to 100 Mb) with colleagues inside or outside UoB (includes virus scan) Distractions: BBC News website Self explanatory Fantasy Premier League Free fantasy football game My other websites (in case you are really bored): Tectonics of the Transantarctic Mountains A site I produced for an undergrad project (note the use of Word to produce the pages and quality animated gifs throughout) Chengjiang lagerstätte website A site I produced for a Masters project, including controversial reclassification of the Brachiopoda Ask A Biologist Ask real biologists questions *(NB: beware poor imitations such as "Bum Buddy", the North American, "Fanny Friend", or, for that matter, "Ass Pal") |
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