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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: 92

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Monograph: Trilobites from the Silurian Reefs in North Greenland

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 92
Publication Date: 2014
Page(s): 1–93
Authored by: Helen E. Hughes and Alan T. Thomas
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Number: 91

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Monograph: The Late Ordovician Brachiopods of Southern Pembrokeshire and Adjacent South-Western Wales

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 91
Publication Date: 2014
Page(s): 1–90
Authored by: L. Robin M. Cocks
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Number: 90

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Monograph: Lastest Ordovician and Earliest Silurian Brachiopods Succeeding the Hirnantia Fauna in South-East China

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 90
Publication Date: 2013
Page(s): 1–142
Authored by: Rong Jiayu, Huang Bing, Zhan Ren-Bin, and David A.T. Harper
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Number: 89

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Monograph: Devoian Spore Assemblages from Northwestern Gondwana: Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 89
Publication Date: 2013
Page(s): 1–163
Authored by: Pierre Breuer and Philippe Steemans
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Number: 88

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Monograph: Smithian (Early Triassic) Ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 88
Publication Date: 2012
Page(s): 1–114
Authored by: Thomas Brühwiler, Hugo Bucher, David Ware, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann, Peter A. Hochuli, Ghazala Roohi, Khalil Rehman and Aamir Yaseen
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Number: 87

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Monograph: Tabulate Corals from The Givetian and Frasnian of the Southern Region of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 87
Publication Date: 2012
Page(s): 1–100
Authored by: Mikołaj K. Zapalski
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Number: 86

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Monograph: Cover, Contents, and Foreword

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 1–5
Authored by: Paul M. Barrett and Andrew R. Milner
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Monograph: Angela C. Milner and her contribution to vertebrate palaeontology

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 7–16
Authored by: Andrew R. Milner and Paul M. Barrett
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Monograph: Humeral homology and the origin of the tetrapod elbow: a reinterpretation of the enigmatic specimens ANSP 21350 and GSM 104536

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 17–29
Authored by: Per E. Ahlberg
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Monograph: Phylogenetic signal and character compatibility in the appendicular skeleton of early tetrapods

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 31–43
Authored by: Marcello Ruta
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Monograph: A new microsaur from the Early Carboniferous (Vise??an) of East Kirkton, Scotland, showing soft tissue evidence

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 45–55
Authored by: Jennifer A. Clack
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Monograph: The amphibian Erpetosaurus radiatus (Temnospondyli, Dvinosauria) from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio: morphology and systematic position

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 57–73
Authored by: Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira
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Monograph: The skull of the solemydid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (UK) and a review of Solemydidae

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 75–97
Authored by: Joyce G. Walter, Sandra D. Chapman, Richard T. J. Moody, and Cyril A. Walker
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Monograph: New material of the enigmatic Scandensia, an Early Cretaceous lizard from the Iberian Peninsula

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 99–108
Authored by: Arnau Bolet and Susan E. Evens
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Monograph: A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early???Middle Jurassic pliosaurids

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 109–129
Authored by: Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson
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Monograph: New material of Valdosaurus canaliculatus (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 131–163
Authored by: Paul M. Barrett, Richard J. Butler, Richard J. Twitchett and Stephen Hutt
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Monograph: On the osteology of the lower Wealden (Valanginian) ornithopod Barilium dawsoni (Iguanodontia: Styracosterna)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 165–194
Authored by: David B. Norman
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Monograph: Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 195–239
Authored by: Oliver W.M. Rauhut
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Monograph: Structural performance of tetanuran theropod skulls, with emphasis on the Megalosauridae, Spinosauridae and Carcharodontosauridae

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 241–253
Authored by: Emily J. Rayfield
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Monograph: A ???eutriconodontan??? mammal from the UK Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 255–261
Authored by: Jerry J. Hooker and Allan G. Lawson
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Monograph: Directions in palaeoneurology

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 86
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 263–279
Authored by: Stig A. Walsh and Monja A. Knoll
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Number: 85

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Monograph: The Phylogeny of Post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 85
Publication Date: 2011
Page(s): 1–112
Authored by: Andrew Scott Gale
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Number: 83

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Monograph: Silurian Conodonts from the Yangtze Platform, South China

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 83
Publication Date: 2010
Page(s): 1–136
Authored by: Wang Cheng-Yuan and Richard J. Aldridge
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Number: 82

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Monograph: Ichnology of an Early Permian Intertidal Flat: The Robledo Mountain Formation of Southern New Mexico, USA

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 82
Publication Date: 2009
Page(s): 1–107
Authored by: Nicholas J. Minter and Simon J. Braddy
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Number: 80

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Monograph: The Early Jurassic Pterosaur Dorygnathus Banthensis (Theodori, 1830)

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 80
Publication Date: 2008
Page(s): 1–107
Authored by: Kevin Padian
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Number: 79

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Monograph: Nautiloids Before and During the Origin of Ammonids in a Siluro-Devonian Section in the Tafilalt, Anti-Atlas, Morocco

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 79
Publication Date: 2008
Page(s): 1–110
Authored by: Björn Kröger
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Number: 78

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Monograph: Graptolites from the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Jordon

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 78
Publication Date: 2007
Page(s): 1–78
Authored by: David K. Loydell
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Number: 77

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Monograph: A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 77
Publication Date: 2007
Page(s): 57–90
Authored by: Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, and Peter M. Galton
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Number: 76

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Monograph: Early Silurian (Llandovery) Orthhide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: the O/S Extinction Recovery Fauna

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 76
Publication Date: 2006
Page(s): 1–71
Authored by: Rongyu Li and Paul Copper
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Number: 75

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Monograph: Silurian and Lower Devonian Thelodonts and Putative Chondrichthyans from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 75
Publication Date: 2006
Page(s): 1–144
Authored by: T. Märss, M.V.H. Wilson, and R. Thorsteinsson
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Number: 74

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Monograph: Brachiopods from the Dashaba Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Sichuan Province, South-West China

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 74
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 1–63
Authored by: Ren-Bin Zhan and Jisuo Jin
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Number: 73

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Article: Preface

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Thematic Volume: Conodont Biology and Phylogeny: Interpreting the Fossil Record
Edited By: Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 1–5
Authored by: Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue
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Monograph: Between death and data: biases in interpretation of the fossil record of conodonts

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 7–25
Authored by: Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue
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Monograph: Modes of growth in the euconodont oral skeleton: implications for bias and completeness in the fossil record

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 27–38
Authored by: Howard A. Armstrong
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Monograph: An experimental investigation of post-depositional taphonomic bias in conodonts

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 39–56
Authored by: Peter H. von Bitter and Mark A. Purnell
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Monograph: Biases in the recovery and interpretation of micropalaeontological data

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 57–71
Authored by: Lennart Jeppsson
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Monograph: Multielement conodont apparatuses of Triassic Gondolelloidea

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 73–101
Authored by: Michael J. Orchard
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Monograph: Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and palaeobiology in stratigraphic sequences

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 103–116
Authored by: James E. Barrick and Peep Männik
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Monograph: Cambro-Ordovician sea-level fluctuations and sequence boundaries: the missing record and the evolution of new taxa

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 117–134
Authored by: Oliver Lehnert, James F. Miller, Steven A. Leslie, John E. Repetski and Raymond I. Ethington
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Monograph: Graphical refinement of the conodont database: examples and a plea

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 135–141
Authored by: Walter C. Sweet
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Monograph: The likelihood of stratophenetic-based hypotheses of genealogical succession

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 143–157
Authored by: Peter D. Roopnarine
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Monograph: The chronophyletic approach: stratophenetics facing an incomplete fossil record

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 159–183
Authored by: Jerzy Dzik
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Monograph: Cladograms, phylogenies and the veracity of the conodont fossil record

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 73
Publication Date: 2005
Page(s): 185–218
Authored by: Linda M. Wickström and Philip C. J. Donoghue
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Number: 70

Article: Evolutionary and biogeographical implications of phylogenetic analysis of the late Palaeozoic trilobite Paladin

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 70
Thematic Volume: Trilobites and their relatives
Edited By: Philip D. Lane, Derek J. Siveter, and Richard A. Fortey
Publication Date: 2003
Page(s): 363–375
Authored by: David K. Brezinski
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Number: 69

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Monograph: The Interrelationships and Evolution of Basal Theropod Dinosaurs

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 69
Publication Date: 2003
Page(s): 1–213
Authored by: Oliver W.M. Rauhut
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Number: 68

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Article: Life and Environments in Purbeck Times

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 68
Thematic Volume: Life and Environments in Purbeck Times
Edited By: A.R. Milner and D.J. Batten
Publication Date: 2002
Page(s): 1–268
Authored by: A.R. Milner and D.J. Batten
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Number: 66

Monograph: Angiosperm Woods from British Lower Cretaceous and Palaeogene Deposits

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 66
Publication Date: 2001
Page(s): 1–100
Authored by: Mark Crawley
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Number: 65

Monograph: Cambrian - Early Ordovician Brachiops from Malyi Karatau, the Western Balkhash Region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 65
Publication Date: 2001
Page(s): 1–180
Authored by: Lars E. Holmer, Leonid E. Popov, Svetlana P. Koneva, and Michael G. Bassett
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Number: 64

Monograph: Inceramid Faunas and Biostratigraphy of the Upper Turonian-Lower Coniacian of the Western Interior of the United States

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 64
Publication Date: 2000
Page(s): 1–118
Authored by: Ireneusz Walaszczyk and William A. Cobban
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Number: 62

Monograph: Exceptionally Preserved Conchostracans and Other Crustacean from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland

Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology
Number: 62
Publication Date: 1999
Page(s): 1–68
Authored by: Patrick J. Orr and Derek E.G. Briggs
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