OTHER WEB SITES DEALING WITH FOSSIL INSECTS &/OR INVERTEBRATES:

Photo at right:  Paleodictyoptera: Dunbaria fasciipennis Tillyard 1925 from the Kansas Elmo beds.  Scanned from the original glass plate negatives used in the type description.  Provided by and used with the permission of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.  (Robin Tillyard worked at Cawthron in the 1920's.  This is the counterpart fossil to that pictured on the Fossil Insect Home Page.)

• IMPORTANT NEW SITE: The EDNA Fossil Insect Database by Tony Mitchell.  (The EDNA fossil insect database (named after Edna Clifford who started the recording of new species on a card index system) is designed as an update of Handlirsch’s 1906-1908 “Die Fossilen insekten und die phylogenie der rezenten formen” which listed all the then known fossil insect species. Handlirsch recorded 5160 species in 1906; the EDNA database currently holds over 23200. The database is detailed in its contents: it records taxonomic information, synonym details, references for every species (including the page number where it is introduced), and for holotypes site details, stratigraphic information, and geological details are recorded. All the data has been obtained from exhaustive literature searches)

Left: Logo of the Fourth International Congress of Palaeoentomology, the 3rd International Meeting of Palaeoarthropodology, and the 3rd World Congress on Amber and Its Inclusions, held May 3-9, 2007 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country), Spain.

Right: Logo of the Third International Congress of Palaeoentomology, the 2nd International Meeting of Palaeoarthropodology, and the 2nd World Congress on Amber and Its Inclusions, that was held Feb, 7-11, 2005 in Pretoria, South Africa.

• 3rd International Congress on Palaeoentomology - Held in Feb. 2005 in South Africa.

• The International Palaeoentomological Society - Founded in Sept. 2001

• Group Photo from FOSSILSX3 Congress, February 2005.

• Fossil Insects Page at Kansas Geological Survey Web Site

• Paleoentomology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum Division of Entomology

•   The Rhynie Chert Fauna: The earliest known Hexapoda, including the newly reinterpreted Rhyniognatha hirsti Tillyard, 1928, possibly the earliest pterygote insect, known only from mandibular and other fragments (Engel & Grimaldi, 2004, Nature, 427:627-630).  Also see the British Natural History Museum Page on this subject.  

• Palaeoentomology in Russia - Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow  

• The Most Important Book on Fossil Insects Since Carpenter's 1992 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology volumes on Hexapoda, Rasnitsyn & Quicke's "History of Insects" is a Must-Have Reference - Link Here to Author's Web Page on the Book

• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Arthropoda 4: Volumes 3 & 4: Hexapoda, 1992, by Frank M. Carpenter, Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas - Covers all Families and Genera of Fossil Insecta.  Needs to be Placed next to the previous book on your shelf.  Unfortunately, currently out of print.  Look for used copies.

• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate Paleontology (includes Elmo fossil pictures and data and biographies on Dunbar and Schuchert)

• Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology - Invertebrate Paleontology  

• The Frank Morton Carpenter Insect Fossil Collection at Harvard - Entomology Collections

• The Fossil Insect Collection at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, houses among many special insect fossils, the types of Brongniart.  Andre Nel is curator of this collection.

• The Definitive Treatise on Insect Evolution - "EVOLUTION OF THE INSECTS" - Cambridge University Press - The first book to integrate information on extant and fossil insects into a synthesized treatise on insect evolution.  Indispensible!! Available now from Michael Engel of The University of Kansas Natural History Museum and David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History.

• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - A site on the famous Colorado Eocene plant and insect locality.

• Texas Memorial Museum - Non-vertebrate Paleontology (includes info on Sellards)

• Siberian Invertebrates Site with Links to Color Drawings of Insects From the Permian - Irkutsk State University Researchers

• The Tree of Life - Hexapoda

• David Kohls Eocene Fossil Insect Site (Updated 5/4/07)

• Fossil Asilidae (Robber Flies) - Fritz Geller-Grimm

• Catalog of Fossil Flies of the World - Neal L. Evenhuis

• Insects in Baltic Amber  - Andrzej Gorski

• The Paleoentomological Newsletter: Meganeura - Martinez-Delclos & Bechly

• Insect Fossil Research Group for Nojiriko Excavation  

• Paleogeography of North America

SITES OF INTEREST TIED TO KANSAS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:

• Johnston Geology Museum, Emporia State University 
• Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas
• Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University

OK, This next site deals with Vertebrates, but they are KANSAS Vertebrates.  

• A fantastic site: OCEANS OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGY by Mike Everhart