The following links are recommended by the author.

The Dinosaur Mailing Group, the best way to stay current on dinosaur references thanks to Ben Creisler, and what the Dinosaur Mailing List turned into as of March 2024.

The Archives of the Dinosaur Mailing List, unfortunately the CMNH stopped hosting the archives in 2021 so there's a gap in coverage.

Paleofile.com is the best source of online information for Mesozoic tetrapods.

The Paleobiology Database is the next best source of such info, and extends to all fossil taxa.

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive has a cladogram of everything, or at least tries hard to reach that goal.

ResearchGate includes legal copies of many pdfs.

Tyrberg's Avian Paleontological Literature Online A-M and N-Z plus Abstracts has an exhaustive list of fossil bird articles available online.

The Polyglot Paleontologist contains English translations of numerous foreign technical articles.


DinoHunter contains an excellent listing of publications arranged by year.

The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates, as long as it wasn't published in 1969-1980, or since 1993, it's probably here.

Phylocode, the biological taxonomic system of the future, official as of May 2020.

ICZN, the zoological taxonomic system of the present.

PAUP* 4.0, get PAUP and make cladograms...

TNT, or get TNT and make cladograms faster and cheaper.

Graeme T. Lloyd's Matrices is an extremely useful compendium of basically every data matrix ever published for phylogenetic analyses, in formats ready to be plugged into PAUP or TNT.


Museums are increasingly placing their collection catalogs online, which can include photographs of specimens and data not available in the literature.  Online catalogs I use include-

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York City, New York, US

Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History (FHSM), Hays, Kansas, US

The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum (KU), Lawrence, Kansas, US

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), Los Angeles, California, US

Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University (MCZ), Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, England

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNH), Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Staatliches Museum for Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS), Stuttgart, Germany

Royal Tyrrell Museum (TMP), Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

University of Alberta (UA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Museum of Natural History University of Colorado Boulder (UCM), Boulder, Colorado, US

University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Berkeley, California, US

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Washington DC, US

The University of Wyoming (UW), Laramie, Wyoming, US

Burke Museum (UWBM), Seattle, Washington, US

Yale Peabody Museum (YPM), New Haven, Connecticutt, US


For some paleoart I find accurate, visit-

Scott Hartman's skeletal reconstructions are amazing and accurate.

John Conway has some of the best paleoart I've seen.

Ville Sinkkonen's life restorations are excellent.

Alain Beneteau's recent work would surely qualify to be described by a synonym for 'good' as well.