📚 Paleontology & Dinosaurs

Fossils as evidence: the history of life read from bone, track and leaf, from the first creatures to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject paleontology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Poems	William Cowper	1782	110
	Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe	Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse	1856	37
	Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe	Baron Georges Cuvier	1813	35
	Dinosaurs	Dougal Dixon	1992	33
	Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles	Baron Georges Cuvier	1821	26
	Wonderful Life the Burgess	Stephen Jay Gould	1988	23
	La terre avant de déluge	Louis Figuier	1863	19
	Eyewitness Dinosaur	David Norman	1989	19
	Organic remains of a former world	James Parkinson	1804	18
	Science and Hebrew tradition	Thomas Henry Huxley	1893	16
	Earth in Upheaval	Immanuel Velikovsky	1955	16
	Text-book of paleontology	Karl Alfred von Zittel	1900	14
	Hamlyn guide to minerals, rocks, and fossils	William Roger Hamilton	1974	14
	Dinosaurs	David E. Fastovsky	2009	14
	Fossils	Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes	1962	13
	Text-book of palaeontology	Karl Alfred von Zittel	1896	11
	Animals of the past	Frederic A. Lucas	1922	10
	Fossils	Douglas Palmer	1996	10
	The wonders of geology, or, A familiar exposition of geological phenomena	Gideon Algernon Mantell	1838	9
	Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire	Gideon Algernon Mantell	1847	9
	The geographical distribution of animals	Alfred Russel Wallace	1876	9
	Life of the past	George Gaylord Simpson	1953	9
	Fossils	Richard A. Fortey	1982	9
	Dinosaur Worlds	Don Lessem	1996	9
	Archaeology and Language III	Roger Blench	1999	9
	The richness of life	Stephen Jay Gould	2006	9
	Rancho La Brea	Chester Stock	1956	8
	The fossil book	Carroll Lane Fenton	1958	8
	Fossil Plants	A. C. Seward	1963	8
	Vertebrate Palaeontology	Michael Benton	1999	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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