Palaeontology is the journal of the Palaeontological Association. Please click here to access the Palaeontological Association website (www.palass.org)

The journal publishes a wide variety of papers on palaeontological topics covering:

• palaeozoology
• palaeobotany
• systematic studies
• palaeoecology
• micropalaeontology
• palaeobiogeography
• functional morphology
• stratigraphy
• taxonomy
• taphonomy
• palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
• palaeoclimate analysis and biomineralization studies.

Review Articles
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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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