Abstract
Norman MacLeod (Editor), 2000, The Natural History Museum, London, and Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, (CD-ROM $40) ISBN: 0-632-05641-X. Making fossils fun for students is one of the challenges of the professional paleontologist; another challenge certainly remains identifying paleontological unknowns encountered in the field. Sure, we have inorganic chemistry beat when it comes to audience enjoyment for the former and, yes, there are references available for the latter, but that does not mean it's always easy. Thankfully, PaleoBase now exists: a valuable tool for use in the education of professional and non-professional paleontologists alike. It also potentially will allow paleontologists to evaluate the taxonomy of specimens they recover in the field. The software package essentially couples the world class paleontological collections of the Natural History Museum (London) with experts on macrofossil systematics in a relational database. This package is the computer age complement to Euan Clarkson's superb (1979, 1998) Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. A book that many, if not all, paleontologists used at some point during their careers, and Clarkson, in fact, is listed as the special advisor to this project. The authors of this package hail it as the future of systematics and …
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