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As an official journal of The Palaeontological Association, Palaeontology includes innovative and timely hypothesis-driven research that significantly advances our understanding of the history of life on Earth.
Our scope includes palaeozoology, palaeobotany, systematic studies, palaeoecology, micropalaeontology, palaeobiogeography, functional morphology, stratigraphy, taxonomy, taphonomy, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeoclimate analysis and biomineralization studies. Synthetic papers that span several of these areas are particularly welcome.
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Articles
Negative ontogenetic allometry of cardinal spines in the early Cambrian arthropod Isoxys volucris indicates their defensive function
- 28 July 2025
The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera
- 27 July 2025
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size
- 23 July 2025
The role of substrate in determining the dominance of immobile, epifaunal bivalves in the Late Cretaceous
- 16 July 2025
Convergent evolution among non-carnivorous, desert-dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae (Cretaceous of Brazil)
- 10 July 2025
The modular organization of the trilobite head in Ceraurus pleurexanthemus
- 3 July 2025
Middle Pleistocene revelations: unravelling taphonomic processes in mammals including Mesotherium cristatum (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata), Corralito Site, Córdoba Province, Argentina
- 2 July 2025
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- 27 June 2025
Graphical Abstract
Cover: An embryo of Markuelia lauriei Haug et al., 2009, a scalidophoran from the Monastery Formation (late Templetonian, Middle Cambrian) at North Rogers Ridge, Georgina Basin, northern Australia (CPC 39946; Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection of Geoscience Australia, Canberra).
Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert
- 27 June 2025
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- 379-389
- 18 December 2014
A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data
- 469-480
- 23 May 2018
Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils
- 769-785
- 23 June 2015
Time‐averaging and fidelity of modern death assemblages: building a taphonomic foundation for conservation palaeobiology
- 487-522
- 7 May 2013
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Volume 11, Issue 4July/August 2025