北美地質史是指從地球形成到史前時期開始時北美洲的地質以及北美洲陸地上的生物歷史。在古生代初期，現在的北美洲實際上位於南半球。 前寒武紀期間，北美出現了藍菌門生物 Murray 1974 Michigan page 157。三疊紀時期，北美境內出現了恐龍。盤古大陸開始分裂後，北美開始向北和向西漂移。在侏羅紀後期，北美西部的洪泛區是異特龍屬、迷惑龍屬和劍龍屬等恐龍的家園。白堊紀期間，墨西哥灣變得越來越大，此時北美西部的沿海平原是埃德蒙頓龍屬、三角龍屬和暴龍屬等恐龍的家園。 新生代開始後，陸地上的哺乳動物越來越多。始新世期間，北美西部是小型原始駱駝、原始馬以及肉食性肉齒目動物的家園。漸新世期間，北美的氣候變冷，直到更新世時氣候才轉暖。此時北美大陸上的物種有劍齒虎亞科、真猛獁象、乳齒象屬和恐狼。人類透過西伯利亞和阿拉斯加之間的陸橋抵達北美。 參考文獻 參考書目 Braden Angela K The Arkansas Dinosaur Arkansaurus fridayi Arkansas Geologic Survey 2007 A Brief Summary of the Geologic History of Ohio GeoFacts Number 23 Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey July 2001 Discovering Dinosaurs Minipage Buffalo News November 4 2010 Accessed August 28 2010 Carr TD Williamson TE Schwimmer DR 2005 A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous middle Campanian Demopolis Formation of Alabama Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 1 119143 Dinosaur Fossils are not found in Indiana Our Hoosier State Beneath Us Paleontology Indiana Geological Survey Department of Natural Resources Accessed August 2 2012 Everhart M J 2005 Oceans of Kansas A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea Indiana University Press 320 pp Foster J 2007 Jurassic West The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World Indiana University Press 389pp Gangloff Roland Sarah Rieboldt Judy Scotchmoor Dale Springer July 21 2006 Alaska US The Paleontology Portal Accessed September 21 2012 Greb Stephen Fossils Fact Sheet No 4 Kentucky Geological Survey September 1999 Hilton Richard P 2003 Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California Berkeley University of California Press 318 pp Horner John R Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky Mountain Press Publishing Company 2001 Huntsman John Patricia Kelley Judy Scotchmoor Dale Springer February 17 2004 North Carolina US The Paleontology Portal Accessed September 21 2012 Jacobs L L III 1995 Lone Star Dinosaurs Texas AM University Press Jones Meg Rare Sample From Dinosaur Age Found in Wisconsin Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Online 2009 Accessed August 14 2012 Lockley Martin and Hunt Adrian Dinosaur Tracks of Western North America Columbia University Press 1999 Madin Ian P Oregon A Geologic History Interpretive Map Series 28 Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Mihelich PeggyIts Real Life CSI for Dinosaur Detectives CNN Tech August 25 2006 Accessed July 31 2012 Murray Marian 1974 Hunting for Fossils A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States Collier Books 348 pp Schiebout J A Ting S Williams M Boardman G Gose W Wilhite D R White P D and Kilbourne B 2004 Paleofaunal Environmental Research on Miocene Fossil Sites TVOR SE and TVOR S on Fort Polk Louisiana with Continued Survey Collection Processing and Documentation of other Miocene localities Louisiana Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District Contract no DACA6300D006 Delivery Order no 0015 Louisiana State University 45 pp Vaiden Robert C Build Illinois The Last 500 Million Years Geonote 4 Illinois State Geological Survey 2004 12 pp Accessed August 3 2012 Weishampel DB L Young 1996 Dinosaurs of the East Coast The Johns Hopkins University Press Weishampel David B Dodson Peter and Osmólska Halszka eds The Dinosauria 2nd Berkeley University of California Press 861 pp Witzke Brian J The Age of Dinosaurs in Iowa Iowa Geology Number 26 2001 Pages 27 Category 美國古生物學 Category 美國自然史 Category 墨西哥自然史 Category 各地史前時期 Category 美國前哥倫布時期