fossil sharks and rays	fossil echinoids
The Netherlands	Belgium	Germany	Scandinavia
UK	France	USA
Geological surveys	miscellaneous

29 dec 2000 elasmo.com
big american site about fossil sharkteeth

29 dec 2000 Candoni's Selachians & Paleontology
Mesozoic and Tertiairy sharks and rays from several localities in France (in French)

29 dec 2000 Gainesville's Creek Fossils
An overview of the paleontology of Gainesville, Florida.
Contains a listing of fossil Sharks and Rays of the world.

29 dec 2000 A Visit To The Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed, Southern California
about the Miocene Sharktooth Hill - locality at Bakersfield, California

29 dec 2000 A Key to the Common Genera of Neogene Shark Teeth [PDF]
(Department of Paleobiology of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

25 jun 2002 Paleontological Society
Extensive site about all kind of fossils. Not much text but loaded with good pictures; e.g. :

• Cretaceous sharks of Alberta/Canada (shark) and Cretaceous microsite vertebrate fossils (vs)
• shark teeth from the Eocene of the USA (Virginia: esh1 and Alabama: esh4 )
• shark teeth from the Eocene of Kazakhstan (part 1: esh3 and part 2: esh2 )
• shark teeth from the Miocene of Maryland and Virginia (msh1) and Miocene/Pliocene of North Carolina: (psh1)
• Paleozoic shark teeth from the early Carboniferous of Alberta/Canada (matrix)

10 nov 2003 Shark Teeth "J-elasmo"
Extensive site about fossil shark- and rayteeth from locations all over the world, from Paleozoic to Pleistocene. Very good pictures !

10 nov 2003 Eurolasmo
Forum for shark tooth palaeontologists

8 mar 2004 belgiansharkteeth.be
Beautiful site about the fossil sharks of the Belgian Tertiary

4 oct 2005 Pieter De Schutter's Fossil Sharks and Rays in Belgium and NW Europe
Photographs of fossil sharkteeth (Cretaceous/Albian to Pliocene) from different localities in NW-Europe. English text.

4 oct 2005 Johan Janssen's Johan Sharktooth
A great identification guide for (European) sharktooth-collectors - covers collecting-localities in The Netherlands and Belgium.
Good photographs - English text.

23 mar 2014 Morocco
Many good photographs of all kind of teeth from the phosphate mines of Morocco (sharks, rays, reptiles, fish).
Very useful for classification - contains stratigraphic overviews for all species mentioned. English text.

NEW LINK Stanislav Dobrovolskiy's Chondrichthyan teeth from the Paleogene of Kyiv
Shark- and ray-teeth from the Eocene of Kiev, Ukraine - with excellent photographs. English text.

25 jun 2002 Echinidés du Jurassique Ardennais
the jurassic of the Ardennes department (northern France) and its echinoids - with photographs (in French)

25 jun 2002 Echinologia
big site exclusively about echinoids - with many good photographs (in French)

23 mar 2014 Manuel Saura Vilar's Echinoids Gallery
many beautiful photographs of fossil echinoids - also pages about fossil echinoids from Morocco and Australia (Spanish text)

23 mar 2014 Université Le Havre's Les micrasters de la craie
about the Micrasters in the cretaceous of Normandy, France (French text)

29 dec 2000 Museum Naturalis - Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Leiden
National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, The Netherlands (in Dutch and English )

29 dec 2000 Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
Museum of Natural History of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contains an English version

29 dec 2000 Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging (NGV)
the Dutch Geological Association (in Dutch and English)

29 dec 2000 Stichting Geologische Aktiviteiten
(another geological association in The Netherlands - in Dutch )

30 sep 2004 Fossils, Locations, and Information
Dutch information board for fossil collectors (e.g. news, European collecting localities, ... - message board only in Dutch)

29 dec 2000 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Brussels

29 dec 2000 BVP - Belgische Vereniging voor Paleontologie.
Belgian Association for Paleontology (in Dutch)

10 nov 2003 Fossilien aus Espenhain
Oligocene fossils from the Leipzig region (shark- and rayteeth, crustacea, plants); German text.

29 dec 2000 Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen
Geological Survey of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Krefeld, Germany

29 dec 2000 Geologisch-Paläontologisches Museum
Geological-Paleontological Museum of the University of Münster, Germany

31 nov 2001 Fossilien aus dem Muschelkalk des Kraichgaus
fossils from the middle Triassic of SW Germany, including some sharks

14 apr 2004 home trias verein thueringen geologie palaeontologie
Fossils from the Triassic of Thüringen (SE Germany). Special attention to the Ceratites-species of the upper "Muschelkalk" (great pictures!).
Also some pages about triassic fishes and sharks : http://www.trias-verein.de/fossilien/oberer_muschelkalk/fische.php .
German text.

31 nov 2001 Baltic Amber and Copal, Fossile Farne des Piesberg - Private Homepage jwjanzen Carboniferous plants from northern Germany and amber-fossils - good photographs!! (in German)
Photogallery of fossil insects in Baltic amber on a separate site : macro-macro, Fotos zum Focus-Stacking, Jens-Wilhelm Janzen

8 mar 2004 Fossiler i Faxe Kalkbrud
Paleocene (Danian) fossils from the Faxe-quarry (eastern part of Denmark)
Beautiful pictures but Danish text! Try Google Translate (no perfect translations, but it helps)

31 nov 2001 Fossils and fossil collecting UK - geological guides and geology explanation
discussion board - news - descriptions of collecting locations in England and Wales (with pictures of the fossils which can be found)

8 mar 2004 Discovering Fossils Fossil Collecting UK locations & Geology
another site with description of fossil collecting locations in England

31 nov 2001 Ammonite.ws
fossils of the Gault clay and Folkestone beds of Kent, UK

31 nov 2001 london_clay_eocene_fossils_of_the_isle_of_sheppey
fossils of the Eocene of Sheppey, Kent, south-east England

8 mar 2004 BRITISH CHALK FOSSILS ROBERT RANDELL
about the upper cretaceous fossils of south England - beautiful pictures !

30 sep 2004 Les sciences de la Terre dans l'académie de Rouen
Geology of "Haute-Normandie" (eastern part of Normandy) with Base de données des fossiles de Normandie (database with pictures of upper jurassic and cretaceous fossils of Normandy). French text.

30 sep 2004 Lithothèque de Normandie - Géologie - Fossiles
site of Académie de Caen : geology of "Basse-Normandie" (western part of Normandy: Cotentin peninsula and Calvados/Eure-region). Contains geological maps and excursions. The section "fossiles de Normandie" gives a good overview of fossils from this part of Normandy. French text.

10 nov 2003 Cyril Baudouin's Ammonites et autres fossiles
Geology and fossils of the Drome area, southern France. Also a systematic overview of the most important fossil families, with examples from France. Many good fotographs, text in French.

25 jun 2002 Jean-Claude Renou's les faluns du centre de la France
(Miocene fossils of central France, with good fotographs, in French)

29 dec 2000 Ammonites du Jurassique et brachiopodes fossiles - Jurassic ammonites of Burgundy, France - fossil brachiopods
(contains a english version too)

29 dec 2000 Hervé Châtelier's Ammonites et aliae spirae II
Extensive site about ammonites and nautiloids with many good pictures from (mainly French) specimen (in French)

29 dec 2000 Albien de l'Aube
fossils from the middle Albian of the Aube department, northern France (in French and English)

29 dec 2000 Les fossiles du bassin de Paris
fossil molluscs from the Eocene of the Paris Basin, France - with some good photographs (in French)

31 nov 2001 Les Trilobites ordoviciens de Bretagne - Ordovician Trilobites of Brittany
about the Ordovician trilobites of Brittany, Western France - good photographs (in French and English)

29 dec 2000 Géologie de la Montagne Noire. Le massif du Caroux.
Geology and Paleozoic fossils of the Montagne Noire (Aude and Tarn departments), southern France (in French)

29 dec 2000 Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
big site about the Cretaceous of Kansas - mainly about mosasaurs and other marine reptiles

29 dec 2000 UCMP Home Page
University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Paleontology
contains the UCMP Web Time Machine - a geological time scale with extensive explanation and links to localities of paleontological interest worldwide, e.g. :

• The Jurassic Period (general) Localities of the Jurassic Period (wordwide Jurassic localities)
  
• The Cretaceous Period (general) Localities of the Cretaceous Period (North American Cretaceous localities)
  
• The Paleocene Epoch (general information and links to sites about some Paleogene localities)
  
• The Eocene Epoch (general) Localities of the Eocene (Eocene localities in the USA)
  
• The Oligocene Epoch (general) Localities of the Oligocene (Oligocene localities in the USA)
  
• The Miocene Epoch (general) Localities of the Miocene (Miocene localities in North- and South-America)
• The Pliocene Epoch (general) Localities of the Pliocene (worldwide Pliocene localities)

23 mar 2014 The Fossil Forum
American information board for fossil collectors (e.g. fossil news, fossil hunting, fossil identification, ... )

29 dec 2000 U.S., State, & Foreign Geological Surveys & Associations
(links to geological surveys all over the world)

25 jun 2002 Dr. Sam Gon III 's a Guide to the Orders of Trilobites

23 mar 2014 Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg : World's Biggest Trilobite

23 mar 2014 early Cambrian Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park, Canada

• a good introduction to the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its fossils : Fossils of the Burgess Shale
  
• Royal Ontario Museum : The Burgess Shale - with a beautiful photo gallery .
• Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History / Washington, DC : Burgess Shale
  
• the related Maotianshan Shales of Chengjiang in the Yunnan Province of China
  

29 dec 2000 Hans' Paleobotany Pages
about Devonian and Carboniferous plants of Europe (in Dutch and English)

29 dec 2000 Geologic Ages of Earth History
Geological Timescale, includes a zipped Microsoft Excel worksheet version

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