Handbook of Fossils v2025.11

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About this app

Developer Description

The visual guide of the more common groups of fossils around the world.

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.

What's New

🌟 Fixed minor bugs.

Version Information

Version: 2025.11
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Nov 2, 2025
Released: Dec 16, 2018
Requires: Android 8.0

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★★★★★

A Google user

Super helpful, especially for science olympiad! Would reccomend for anyone hoping to get a base general knowledge on fossil phylums and such!

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A Google user

Under " rate this app " 'Tell us more' does not have a positive answer to choose. For instance " Is this app in English I can choose NO or NOT SURE. But the answer is YES.

★★★

A Google user

There is too much repetitive information and very ittle new information on each group of fossils. The long Kingdom descriptions are repeated with every group. More pictures would be good. Also the ads get in the way at the bottom and they make it impossible finish reading the new information.

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