| Name (* indicates Charter Member) | Elected SVP Member | Elected Honorary Member |
| E. C. Case | n/a | 1951 |
| C. Christman | n/a | 1951 |
| O. Falkenbach | n/a | 1951 |
| W. K. Gregory | n/a | 1951 |
| Charles R. Knight | n/a | 1951 |
| Charles Lang | n/a | 1951 |
| R. S. Lull | n/a | 1951 |
| Barnum Brown | n/a | 1952 |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | n/a | 1952 |
| F. von Huene | n/a | 1952 |
| Elmer S. Riggs | n/a | 1952 |
| D. M. S. Watson | n/a | 1952 |
| Serafino Agostini | n/a | 1953 |
| Norman Boss | n/a | 1953 |
| John German | n/a | 1953 |
| Erik Stensio | n/a | 1955 |
| Harold Cook | n/a | 1956 |
| Samuel Schaub | n/a | 1958 |
| C. Arambourg | n/a | 1959 |
| Charles L. Camp | n/a | 1960 |
| Prof. Jean Piveteau | 1948 | 1960 |
| Alexander Wetmore | n/a | 1961 |
| Chung-chien Young | n/a | 1962 |
| Alfred S. Romer* | 1941 | 1968 |
| George Gaylord Simpson | n/a | 1969 |
| Leroy Kay | n/a | 1970 |
| Nelda E. Wright* | 1941 | 1971 |
| Rachel H. Nichols | n/a | 1972 |
| F. R. Parrington | 1946 | 1972 |
| George E. Untermann | n/a | 1972 |
| Billie Untermann | n/a | 1972 |
| Edwin H. Colbert* | 1941 | 1973 |
| Hildegarde Howard* | 1941 | 1973 |
| Johannes Hurzeler | 1947 | 1973 |
| Emil Kuhn-Schnyder | 1946 | 1973 |
| C. Bertrand Schultz* | 1941 | 1973 |
| Miriam Schwartz | 1971 | 1974 |
| Raymond Alf | 1949 | 1974 |
| D. H. Dunkle | n/a | 1974 |
| Tokio Shikama | 1951 | 1974 |
| C. M. Sternberg | n/a | 1974 |
| Theodore E. White | n/a | 1974 |
| Rainer Zangerl* | 1941 | 1975 |
| Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska | 1964 | 1975 |
| C. Lewis Gazin* | 1941 | 1975 |
| Bryan Patterson | n/a | 1975 |
| Paul O. McGrew | n/a | 1976 |
| T. Stanley Westoll | 1943 | 1976 |
| Albert E. Wood* | 1941 | 1977 |
| Robert H. Denison | n/a | 1977 |
| Loris S. Russell* | 1941 | 1977 |
| Robert W. Wilson* | 1941 | 1978 |
| Rene Lavocat | 1945 | 1978 |
| Minchen Chow | 1950 | 1979 |
| Joseph T. Gregory* | 1941 | 1980 |
| Everett C. Olson* | 1941 | 1980 |
| John A. Wilson* | 1941 | 1986 |
| Morris F. Skinner* | 1941 | 1986 |
| W. E. Swinton | 1948 | 1986 |
| Errol I. White | n/a | 1986 |
| Bobb Schaeffer* | 1941 | 1987 |
| Wann Langston, Jr. | 1943 | 1988 |
| Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.* | 1941 | 1989 |
| Donald E. Savage | 1946 | 1989 |
| Heinz Tobien | 1950 | 1990 |
| Samuel P. Welles | 1987 | 1990 |
| Donald Baird | 1949 | 1991 |
| Richard Dehm | 1951 | 1991 |
| Rosendo Pascual | 1964 | 1992 |
| Herbert R. Axelrod | 1988 | 1992 |
| Theodore Downs | 1948 | 1992 |
| James W. Kitching | n/a | 1993 |
| John A. White | 1957 | 1993 |
| Chuan Kuei Li | 1980 | 1993 |
| Charles A. Repenning | 1952 | 1994 |
| Percy M. Butler | 1966 | 1994 |
| Arnold D. Lewis | 1951 | 1995 |
| Colin Patterson | 1995 | 1995 |
| Stanley J. Olsen | 1946 | 1996 |
| Richard H. Tedford | 1950 | 1996 |
| John S. McIntosh | 1957 | 1996 |
| Mee-man Chang | n/a | 1997 |
| William D. Turnbull | 1946 | 1997 |
| Donald E. Russell | 1954 | 1997 |
| Peter Robinson | 1951 | 1998 |
| J. Alan Holman | 1957 | 1998 |
| Nicholas Hotton, III | 1947 | 1998 |
| James H. Madsen, Jr. | 1960 | 1998 |
| Mary R. Dawson | 1954 | 1999 |
| A. L. (Alec) Panchen | 1957 | 1999 |
| Dong Zhiming | n/a | 2000 |
| Elaine Anderson | 1962 | 2000 |
| Robert L. Carroll | 1957 | 2001 |
| Ernest L. Lundelius | 1948 | 2001 |
| Philipe Taquet | 1973 | 2001 |
| Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa | n/a | 2002 |
| Richard C. Fox | 1961 | 2002 |
| William A. Clemens | 1953 | 2002 |
| Ashok Sahni | 1965 | 2002 |
| Michael Voorhies | 1963 | 2003 |
| Halszka Osmolska | 1998 | 2003 |
| Charles Richard Harrington | 1966 | 2003 |
| Jason Lillegraven | 1961 | 2004 |
| Michael Woodburne | 1957 | 2004 |
| David S Berman | 1964 | 2005 |
| Everett Lindsay | 1965 | 2005 |
| Charles “Rufus” Churcher | 1960 | 2006 |
| S. David Webb | 2008 | 2006 |
| Wighart v. Koenigswald | 1977 | 2007 |
| Chris McGowan | 1969 | 2007 |
| Michel Brunet | 2008 | 2008 |
| James A. Hopson | 1957 | 2008 |
| Paul Martin | 2008 | 2008 |
| Margarita Erbajeva | 1998 | 2009 |
| Oldrich Fejfar | 1997 | 2009 |
| Jerry Hooker | 1992 | 2009 |
| Wolfgang Maier | 2009 | 2009 |
| Hans de Bruijn | 1965 | 2010 |
| John M. Harris | 1967 | 2010 |
| Robert R. Reisz | 1969 | 2011 |
| Jean-Jacques Jaeger | n/a | 2011 |
| Elwyn Simons | n/a | 2012 |
| Lawrence Barnes | n/a | 2012 |
| Andrew R. Milner | n/a | 2013 |
| Gerald R. Smith | n/a | 2014 |
| Margery Coombs | n/a | 2015 |
| Dr. Richard J. Zakrzewski | n/a | 2016 |
| Louis Jacobs | n/a | 2017 |
| Dr. Lance Grande | n/a | 2018 |
| Dr. Angela C. Milner | n/a | 2018 |
| Dr. Christine Janis | n/a | 2019 |
| Dr. Qiu Zhuding | n/a | 2019 |
| Kenneth Rose | n/a | 2022 |
| Anthony Barnosky | n/a | 2022 |
| Robert Holmes | n/a | 2023 |
| (Greg) Hugh McDonald | n/a | 2023 |