Handbook of Fossils

The clearest and sharpest recognition guides to the natural world, Handbook of Fossils make identification of individual species from the three main kingdoms: invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants.

The Handbook of Fossils is easy to use and a definitive natural history application essential to geologists and enthusiasts of all ages.

Made by a Geologist for Geologists.

Features of the Handbook of Fossils app

[+] Visual examples of each major group of fossils are given, along with a concise description and representative images;

[+] images with various controls, e.g. zoom, swipe between them, etc.;

[+] works offline; is fully searchable, faster, friendly UI.

⚒️ and many more features...

The major groups of fossils are:

INVERTEBRATES

with foraminifera, worms, sponges and bryozoans, trace fossils and problematica, graptolites, corals, arthropods (trilobites, chelicerates, crustacea, insects), brachiopods, molluscs (bivalves, chitons and scaphopods, gastropods, nautiloids, ammonoids, belemnites and squids), and echinoderms (crinoids, echinoids, asteroids, ophiuroids, blastoids, cystoids, carpoids).

VERTEBRATES

with fish (agnathans, placoderms, chondrichthyans, acanthodians, osteichthyans), amphibians, reptiles (anapsids, diapsids, dinosaurs, synapsids), birds, and mammals.

PLANTS

with algae, early land plants and haptophytes, sphenopsids, ferns, lycopods, and pteridosperms, bennettites and cycads, conifers, and angiosperms.

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Note: I constantly update this application with new features.