Palaeontology
Published on behalf of the Palaeontological Association
Edited by:
S. Stouge
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 11/40 Paleontology
Impact Factor: 1.517
The journal publishes a wide variety of papers on palaenotological topics covering:
- palaeozoology
- palaeobotany
- systematic studies
- palaeoecology
- micropalaeontology
- palaeobiogeography
- functional morphology
- stratigraphy
- taxonomy
- taphonomy
- palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
- palaeoclimate analysis and biomineralization studies.
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Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Review Articles
Download the following review article(s) free of charge
Charnia at 50: Developmental Models For Ediacaran Fronds
Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Martin D. Brasier
The systematics and phylogenetic relationships of Vetulicolians
Richard J. Aldridge, Hou Xian-Guang, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter, Sarah E. Gabbott
Molecular Palaeobiology
Kevin J. Peterson, Roger E. Summons, Philip C. J. Donoghue
Selected Papers
The following articles demonstrate some of the topics published in the journal over the last few years.
Loriolella, a key taxon for understanding the early evolution of irregular echinoids
AB Smith and L Anzalone
The first named Ediacaran body fossil, Aspidella terranovica
JG Gehling, GM Narbonne, and MM Anderson
The sonniniid ammonite Euhoploceras from the Middle Jurassic of southwest England and southern Spain
J Sandoval and RB Chandler
A new specimen of thethyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation
DM Martill, DJ Batten, and DK Loydell
Palaeoecology of a Late Devonian back reef: Canning Basin, Western Australia
R Wood
Devonian vertebrates from Colombia
P Janvier and C Villarroel
Improvements to the method of Fourier shape analysis as applied in morphometric studies
AJ Haines and JS Crampton
A method to distinguish between woods produced by evergreen and deciduous conifers on the basis of growth ring anatomy: a new palaeoecological tool
HJ Falcon-Lang
A new family of calcareous microfossils from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden
A Munnecke, T Servais, and D Vachard
Provenance of Atlantic lingulid brachiopods
A Williams, BL Cohen, M Cusack and SL Lang
Parasitism on graptoloid graptolites
DEB Bates and DK Loydell
Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures
PA Selden
Underground vendobionta from Namibia
D Grazhdankin and A Seilacher
Upper Devonian sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland
JK Rigby, A Pisera, TT Wrzolek, and G Racki
Ordovician calcified algae and cyanobacteria, Northern Tarim Basim subsurface, China
R Riding and Fan Jiasong
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