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Special Papers in Palaeontology Archive

Special Papers in Paleontology range from monographic treatments of groups to edited volumes on linked themes. Currently backissues are available for Number 1 through 70 and are provide free of charge in the form of downloadable PDFs. Paper copies may be bought from our online shop.

A full list of references for the Special Papers in Palaeontology that are included in the archive can be viewed here: Full Citation List

Please note that currently not all the articles from 1-70 which we have scanned are currently online. It should be noted that we do not currently have any electronic versions of Numbers 56, 63, and 68. If you require one of the missing articles contact the Executive Officer (executive@palass.org). We hope to rectify this issue soon.

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Number: 22

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Article: Data Storage and Retrieval for the Palaeontological Collections, University of Alberta

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 175–188
Authored by: Brain Jones
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Article: Illustration Techniques for Palaeontolological Exhibits

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 189–208
Authored by: Terry L. Chase
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Article: Outline of a Technology for Effective Science Exhibit

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 209–224
Authored by: Roger S. Miles and Alan F. Tout
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Article: Methods for the Preparation of Palaeontological Models

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 225–268
Authored by: Terry L. Chase
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Article: Concluding Discussion and Summary

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 269–276
Authored by: N/A
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Article: List of Colloquium Participants

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 22
Thematic Volume: Curration of Palaeontology Collections
Edited By: M. G. Bassett
Publication Date: 1979
Page(s): 277–279
Authored by: N/A
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Number: 21

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Monograph: Devonian Ammonoids from the Appalachians and their bearing on international zonation and correlation

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 21
Publication Date: 1978
Page(s): 1–70
Authored by: M. R. House
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Number: 20

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Monograph: Fossil Priapulid Worms

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 20
Publication Date: 1977
Page(s): 1–155
Authored by: Simon Conway Morris
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Number: 19

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Monograph: The palynology of early Tertiary sediments Ninetyeast Ridge Indian Ocean

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 19
Publication Date: 1977
Page(s): 1–70
Authored by: Elizabeth M. Kemp and W. K. Harris
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Number: 18

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Monograph: Ostracoderm faunas of the Delorme and associated Siluro-Devonian formations North West territories Canada

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 18
Publication Date: 1976
Page(s): 1–214
Authored by: D. L. Dineley and E. J. Loeffler
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Number: 17

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Monograph: Aspects of ammonite biology, biogeography, and biostratigraphy

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 17
Publication Date: 1976
Page(s): 1–94
Authored by: W J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban
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Number: 16

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Monograph: The ostracod fauna from the Santonian Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Gingin, Western Australia

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 16
Publication Date: 1975
Page(s): 1–81
Authored by: J. W. Neale
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Number: 15

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Monograph: Lower and Middle Devonian conodonta from the Broken River embayment North Queensland, Australia

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 15
Publication Date: 1975
Page(s): 1–96
Authored by: P. G. Telford
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Number: 14

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Monograph: Palaeogene foraminiferida and palaeoecology, Hampshire and Paris basins and the English Channel

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 14
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 1–171
Authored by: J. W. Murray and C. A. Wright
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Number: 13

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Article: Front Cover, Content, Preface

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Authored by: n/a
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Article: Introduction and bibliography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 1–8
Authored by: R. B. Rickards and D. E. Jackson
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Article: New graptolites from the Middle Cambrian of the Siberian platform

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 9–14
Authored by: A. M. Obut
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Article: Genetic polymorphism as evidence of outbreeding in graptoloids

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 15–18
Authored by: Adam Urbanek and Valdar Jaanusson
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Article: Development of rhabdosomes with four primary branches in the group Dictyonema flabelliforme (Eichwald)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 19–34
Authored by: P. H. Legrand
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Article: Tremadoc graptolites from Yukon Territory, Canada

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 35–58
Authored by: D. E. Jackson
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Article: Controls influencing the composition and distribution of Ordovician graptolite faunal provinces

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 59–74
Authored by: David Skevington
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Article: Apiograptus gen. nov. and the origin of the biserial graptoloid rhabdosome

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 13
Thematic Volume: Graptolite studies in honour of O. M. B. Bulman
Edited By: R. B. Rickards, D. E. Jackson and C. P. Hughes
Publication Date: 1974
Page(s): 75–86
Authored by: R. A. Cooper and A. N. McLaurin
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Number: 12

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Article: Front Cover, Content, Preface

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Authored by: n/a
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Article: Phanerozoic world maps

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 1–42
Authored by: A. G. Smith, J. C. Briden and G. E. Drewry
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Article: Numerical simulation of climate: present, past, and future

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 43–44
Authored by: Yale Mintz
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Article: Statistical methods for the study of biogeography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 45–60
Authored by: P. H. A. Sneath and K. G. McKenzie
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Article: Organic diversity, palaeomagnetism, and Permian palaeogeography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 61–78
Authored by: F. J. Vine
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Article: Plates and provinciality, a theoretical history of environmental discontinuities

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 79–92
Authored by: James W. Valentine
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Article: Distributional patterns in contempry terrestrial and marine animals

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 93–106
Authored by: A. Hallam
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Article: Problems with small islands

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 107–112
Authored by: J. D. Holloway
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Article: Systematics and plate tectonics in the spread of marsupials

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 113–120
Authored by: C. Barry Cox
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Article: The origin and affinities of the African mammal faunas

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 121–136
Authored by: S. C. Coryndon and R. J. G. Savage
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Article: The biogeography of some Cainozoic Ostracoda

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 137–154
Authored by: K. G. McKenzie
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Article: Larger Foraminifera and seas through time

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 155–168
Authored by: F. C. Dilley
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Article: Cretaceous Tethyan coral-rudist biogeography related to the evolution of the Atlantic ocean

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 169–174
Authored by: A. G. Coates
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Article: Mesozoic floras

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 175–188
Authored by: P. D. W. Barnard
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Article: Mesozoic and Tertiary distributions, and problems of land-plant evolution

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 189–198
Authored by: N. F. Hughes
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Article: A history of organic siliceous sediments in oceans

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 199–234
Authored by: A. T. S. Ramsey
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Article: Ordovician trilobite distribution and geography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 235–240
Authored by: H. B. Whittington and P. Hughes
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Article: Distribution of Brachiopod assemblages in relation to Ordovician palaeogeography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 241–270
Authored by: Alwyn Williams
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Article: The distribution of Late Palaeozoic floras

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 271–290
Authored by: W. G. Chaloner and W. S. Lacey
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Article: Brachipod distributions and the faunal provinces in the Silurian and Lower Devonian

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 291–304
Authored by: L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow
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Article: An analysis of Devonian goniatite distributions

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 305–318
Authored by: Michael R. House
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Article: Devonian coral endemism in Eastern North America and its bearing on paleogeography

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 319–320
Authored by: William A. Oliver, Jr
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Article: The distribution of Lower Carboniferous goniatite faunas in relation to suggested continental reconstructions for the period

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 321–330
Authored by: Frank Hodson and W. H. C. Ramsbottom
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Article: Concluding remarks on symposium

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 12
Thematic Volume: Organisms and continents through time: a symposium
Edited By: N. F. Hughes
Publication Date: 1973
Page(s): 331–334
Authored by: P. H. A. Sneath
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Number: 11

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Monograph: Stromatolites and the biostratigraphy of the Australian Precambrian and Cambrian

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 11
Publication Date: 1972
Page(s): 1–190
Authored by: M. R. Walter
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Number: 10

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Monograph: Upper Cretaceous Ostracoda from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 10
Publication Date: 1972
Page(s): 1–85
Authored by: R. H. Bate
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Number: 9

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Monograph: Fish from the freshwater lower Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia with comments on the palaeo-environment

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 9
Publication Date: 1971
Page(s): 1–124
Authored by: Michael Waldman
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Number: 8

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Monograph: Cenomanian ammonites from southern England

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 8
Publication Date: 1971
Page(s): 1–133
Authored by: W. J. Kennedy
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