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The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation (Popularity:  )
http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/
The world's most significant fossil find. High in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is a fossil bed that details life on Earth - 520 Million years ago.
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Petrified Forest National Park (Popularity: )
http://www.wmonline.com/attract/pforest/pforest.htm
Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert near the Grand Canyon of Arizona is a beautiful tourist location with hiking, camping, ancient Indian ruins, prehistoric man, dinosaurs, fossils, petroglyphs.
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Mazon Creek Fossils (Popularity: )
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/mazon_creek/
This is Illinois State Museum's online exhibit of the famous Mazon Creek fossils. The Mazon Creek fossils include many soft-bodied organisms that are not usually preserved.
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Stiegler Natural Stone (Popularity: )
http://www.stiegler-natursteine.de/e/index.htm
Information about the Solnhofen Natural Stone and Jura Marble products from the company that owns the quarry.
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George C. Page Museum (Popularity: )
http://www.tarpits.org/
The George C. Page Museum is located at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world's most famous fossil localities, recognized for having an unusually diverse assemblage of ...
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Burgess Shale fossils (Popularity: )
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/
Descriptions and photos of the famous Burgess Shale fossils.
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Field Trip Guide (Popularity: )
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/lyme.htm
Geological field guide to Lower Jurassic strata (Lias) of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.
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Mary Anning (Popularity: )
http://www.strangescience.net/anning.htm
Short biography of Lyme Regis's most famous fossil hunter.
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Jurassic Cliffs (Popularity: )
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/fossil/fossil.html
The geology, stratigraphy, paleontology and morphology of the Jurassic Cliffs along the Dorset coastline in south-west England.
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The Solnhofen Limestone of Germany (Popularity: )
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/solnhofen.html
Introductory information from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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Digital Burgess Conference (Popularity: )
http://www.biota.org/conf97/
Information from a conference on the Burgess Shale including professional papers.
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La Brea Tar Pits (Popularity: )
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/labrea.html
From the U.C. Museum of Paleontology
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Digital Burgess - Background in Paleontology and Digital Biota (Popularity: )
http://www.biota.org/conf97/explore.html
Images of some Burgess Shale fossils.
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Green River Formation (Popularity: )
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tertiary/eoc/greenriver.html
From the U.C. Museum of Paleontology
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Field Adventures: Petrified Forest (Popularity: )
http://www.fieldadventures.org/az/cycadwash.html
Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park is most famous for its petrified wood, but many other fossil plants can be found there.
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Fossil Butte National Monument (Popularity: )
http://www.nps.gov/fobu/
This 50-million year old lake bed is one of the richest fossil localities in the world.
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Field Adventures: Blue Mesa (Popularity: )
http://www.fieldadventures.org/blue/gunnison.html
The sauropod bones had to be gotten out before the reservoir rose and flooded them.
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Key Scientifically Important Fossils (Popularity: )
http://www.charmouth.org/
A site to record important fossil finds in West Dorset, with photos and short descriptions.
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Field Adventures: Fruita (Popularity: )
http://www.fieldadventures.org/fruita/fruitapa.html
The best-preserved small lizard from the Late Jurassic yet found in North America.
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Fossil and Local Museum, Messel (Popularity: )
http://www.hessennet.de/messel/
Natural history and culture museum. Includes online exhibits about the fossils and formation of the Messel Oil Shale.
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