REFERENCES - Those dead tree references aren't obsolete yet. Here are the ones I found most valuable in the preparation of this site.
RUBBER DINOSAURS
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Cain, Dana; Fredericks, Mike. Dinosaur Collectibles. 1999, Antique Trader Books.
Plastic figures, metal figures, ceramic figures, games, model kits, movie posters, etc., with photos, though not as many photos as you'll see here in the Realm of Rubber Dinosaurs. My information on the Marx mold numbers is from this book.
DINOSAURS
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Weishampel, David B; Dodson, Peter; Osmolska, Halszka. The Dinosauria, 1st ed. U. California Press, 1990.
There was a second edition in 2004, some 130 pages thicker.
Very heavy-duty, lots of Latin, 733 pages. Sure beats slogging through the journals to root out the original papers. Great book. It covers all dinosaurs thoroughly, but only dinosaurs - and as we now know, only about half the animals rendered in Rubber Dinosaur form were actually dinosaurs.
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Lessem, Don; Glut, Donald. F. Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Dinosaur Society, 1993.
Good book, pretty much complete, though neither as heavy-duty nor as authoratative as Dinosauria. Some of the conversions between feet and meters are suspect. Like Dinosauria, it's dinosaurs-only - no mammals, synapsids, ichthyosaurs, monitor lizards, etc.
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Dixon, Dougal; Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian. Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. 1988.
Another good book. Although nowhere near as complete in the dinosaur department as Dinosauria or Dinosaur Encyclopedia, it's not limited to dinosaurs. Nice illustrations.
MAMMALS
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield. The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia, and North America. Macmillan, 1910.
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
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von Zittel, Karl A. Text-Book of Paleontology, 1895. Translated and edited by Charles R. Eastman. Revised, with additions, by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. Macmillan, London. Vol I, 1937. Vol II, 1932. Vol III, 1925. Reprinted 1964.
Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839-1904) was Professor of Geology and Palaeontology at the Bavarian State Collection in Munich. How much of these books is von Zittel and how much Eastman and Woodward is unclear, and probably not important for our purposes. Volume I is invertebrates, Volume II is fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and Volume III is mammals.
- Romer, Alfred Sherwood. Vertebrate Paleontology. Third ed. U. Chicago Press, 1966.
First edition appeared about 1933, second about 1945, third about 1964. If there are going to be any more editions, they'll have to do without Prof. Romer, who retired from Harvard in 1965, and died in 1973. His other big textbooks are The Vertebrate Body and Osteology of the Reptiles - both bulletproof classics, but not overwhelming relevant to our study of Rubber Dinos.
- Colbert, Edwin H. Evolution of the Vertebrates - A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time. 4th ed, 1991.
First edition, 1955. Second edition, 1969. Third edition, 1980. Fourth edition (with Michael Morales), 1991. Fifth edition (with Michael Morales & Eli C. Minkoff), 2001. I use the third and fourth editions. Colbert died in 2001, so I don't expect he made too many contributions to the fifth edition.
Evolution of the Vertebrates is Colbert's heavy-duty book, but he also wrote a huge number of lighter works, even one about his career as a dino hunter (Digging Into the Past). The two I refer to most often are The Age of Reptiles (Norton, 1965) and Dinosaurs - Their Discovery and Their World (Dutton, 1961).
- Carroll, Robert L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. Freeman, 1988.
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