Allmon, W., 2009, Evolution & creationism: A very short guide. Paleontological Research Institution: Ithaca, NY.
Benton, M. J., 2008, The history of life: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Fenton, C. L., & Fenton, M. A., 1958, The fossil book: a record of prehistoric life (1st ed.). Doubleday: Garden City, NY. (a well-illustrated classic)
Fortey, R. A., 1998, Life: a natural history of the first four billion years of life on Earth. Alfred A. Knopf: New York.
Knoll, A. H., 2003, Life on a young planet: the first three billion years of evolution on Earth. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.
Switek, B.,2010, Written in stone: evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature. Bellevue Literary Press: New York.
Thomson, K. S., 2005, Fossils: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Fossils of Specific Areas
Anderson, W.I., 1998, Iowa’s geological past: Three billion years of change. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 440 p.
Feldmann, R.M., ed., 1995, Fossils of Ohio. Ohio Geological Survey Bulletin 70, 577 p. Hagadorn, J.W., R.H. Dott, and D. Damrow, 2002, Stranded on an Upper Cambrian shoreline: Medusae from central Wisconsin. Geology, 30: 147-150.
Han, T. M., and Runnegar, B., 1992, Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old Negaunee iron-formation, Michigan. Science, 257: 232–235.
Holman, J.A., 2001, In quest of Great Lakes Ice Age vertebrates. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, 230 p.
Kesling, R.V. and Chilman, R.B., 1975, Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation. University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology Papers on Paleontology No. 8, 408 p.
Kchodl, J.J. and Chase, R., 2006, The complete guide to Michigan fossils. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, and Petoskey Publishing Co., Traverse City, 109 p.
Meyer, D., and Davis, R.A., 2009, A sea without fish. Life in the Ordovician sea of the Cincinnati region. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 346 p.
Mueller, B., and Wilde, W. H.,2004, The complete guide to Petoskey stones. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
Nehm, R.H., Bemis, B.E., 2002, Common Paleozoic Fossils of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey , Educational Series 45, 25 p.
Phillips, T.L., Avcin, M.J., Berggren, D., 1976, Fossil peat of the Illinois Basin: A guide to the study of coal balls of Pennsylvanian age. Illinois State Geological Survey, 39 p. Rose, J.N., 1967, Fossils and rocks of eastern Iowa. A half-billion years of Iowa history. Iowa Geological Survey, Educational Series 1, 147 p.
Shabica, C.W., and Hay, A.A. (eds.), 1997, Richardson’s guide to the fossil fauna of Mazon Creek. Northeastern Illinois University Press: Chicago, 308 p.
Sloan, R., 2005, Minnesota fossils and fossiliferous rocks. Published by the author, Winona, MN, 218 p.
Wittry, J., 2012, The Mazon Creek fossil fauna. Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois, in association with Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, 202 p.
Wolf, R., 1983, Fossils of Iowa: Field guide to Paleozoic deposits. Iowa State University Press: Ames, 212 p.
Guides to Collecting and Identifying Fossils
Arduini, P., Teruzzi, G., & Horenstein, S. S., 1986, Simon & Schuster’s guide to fossils. Simon and Schuster: New York.
Garcia, F. A., & Miller, D. S., 1998, Discovering fossils how to find and identify remains of the prehistoric past. Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg, PA.
Macdonald, J. R., 1983, The fossil collector’s handbook: a paleontology field guide. Prentice- Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Murray, M., 1967, Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All Fifty States, The Macmillan Company: Toronto, Canada.
Parker, S., 1990, The Practical Paleontologist. A Step-by-step guide to finding, studying, and interpreting fossils. Simon and Schuster: New York.
Parker, S., 2007, Fossil Hunting: An Expert Guide to Finding, and Identifying Fossils and Creating a Collection. Southwater: London Lanham, MD.
Ransom, J. E., 1964, Fossils in America: Their nature, origin, identification and classification and a range guide to collecting sites, Harper and Row, Publishers: New York.
Thompson, I., 1982, The Audubon Society field guide to North American fossils. Knopf: New York.
Walker, C., Ward, D. & Keates, C., 2009, Smithsonian Handbook of Fossils. Dorling Kindersley Coven Garden Books: New York.