Comptes Rendus Palevol

Articles in French and English, abstracts in both languages

This series (8 issues per year) is devoted to palaeontology, prehistory and evolutionary sciences. It covers the following domains: general, systematic, and human palaeontology, prehistory, evolution, history of sciences.
Articles are preferably written in English, with a French Abstract. Articles in French including an abridged English version, at least one page long, are accepted.

Publishing Director: Catherine Bréchignac

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Imprint: Elsevier

ISSN: 1631-0683

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Top 10 Cited (articles published in the last five years)
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50		Delclòs, X. \| Arillo, A. \| Peñalver, E. \| Barrón, E. \| Soriano, C. \| Valle, R.L.D. \| Bernárdez, E. \| Corral, C. \| Ortuño, V.M.
		Fossiliferous amber deposits from the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 1-2, 2007-01-01, Pages 135-149
34		Hublin, J.-J. \| Roebroeks, W.
		Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2009-07-01, Pages 503-509
24		Miras, Y. \| Ejarque, A. \| Riera, S. \| Palet, J.M. \| Orengo, H. \| Euba, I.
		Holocene vegetation changes and land-use history in the Andorran Pyrenees since the Early Neolithic: The pollen record of Bosc dels Estanyons (2180 m a.s.l., Vall del Madriu, Andorra) \| Dynamique holocène de la végétation et occupation des Pyrénées andorranes depuis le Néolithique ancien, d'après l'analyse pollinique de la tourbière de Bosc dels Estanyons (2180 m, Vall del Madriu, Andorre)
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 4, 2007-05-01, Pages 291-300
20		Thomazo, C. \| Pinti, D.L. \| Busigny, V. \| Ader, M. \| Hashizume, K. \| Philippot, P.
		Biological activity and the Earth's surface evolution: Insights from carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and iron stable isotopes in the rock record
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 7, 2009-10-01, Pages 665-678
17		Pereda-Suberbiola, X. \| Canudo, J.I. \| Cruzado-Caballero, P. \| Barco, J.L. \| López-Martínez, N. \| Oms, O. \| Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I.
		The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain)
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 6, 2009-09-01, Pages 559-572
16		Slimak, L. \| Giraud, Y.
		Raw material circulations over hundred kilometres during the Middle Palaeolithic; implications concerning our knowledge of Neanderthalian societies \| Circulations sur plusieurs centaines de kilomètres durant le Paléolithique moyen. Contribution à la connaissance des sociétés néandertaliennes
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 5, 2007-07-01, Pages 359-368
16		Trueman, C.N. \| Palmer, M.R. \| Field, J. \| Privat, K. \| Ludgate, N. \| Chavagnac, V. \| Eberth, D.A. \| Cifelli, R. \| Rogers, R.R.
		Comparing rates of recrystallisation and the potential for preservation of biomolecules from the distribution of trace elements in fossil bones
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 7, Issue 2-3, 2008-04-01, Pages 145-158
14		Ferguson, D.K. \| Zetter, R. \| Paudayal, K.N.
		The need for the SEM in palaeopalynology
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 6-7, 2007-11-01, Pages 423-430
14		Crochet, J.-Y. \| Welcomme, J.-L. \| Ivorra, J. \| Ruffet, G. \| Boulbes, N. \| Capdevila, R. \| Claude, J. \| Firmat, C. \| Métais, G. \| Michaux, J. \| Pickford, M.
		A new vertebrate fauna associated with lithic artefacts from the Early Pleistocene of the Hérault Valley (southern France) dated around 1.57 Ma \| Une nouvelle faune de vertébrés continentaux, associée à des artefacts dans le Pléistocène inférieur de l'Hérault (Sud de la France), vers 1,57 Ma
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 8, Issue 8, 2009-12-01, Pages 725-736
13		Strullu-Derrien, C. \| Strullu, D.-G.
		Mycorrhization of fossil and living plants
		Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 6, Issue 6-7, 2007-11-01, Pages 483-494

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1		Danièle Gaspard
		X-ray computed tomography: A promising tool to investigate the brachiopod shell interior. Effects on 3D modelling and taxonomy
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 19 April 2013
2		Antonio Hernandez-Lopez \| Didier Raoult \| Pierre Pontarotti
		Birds perching on bushes: Networks to visualize conflicting phylogenetic signals during early avian radiation
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 18 April 2013
3		Chen-yang Cai \| Margaret K. Thayer \| Di-ying Huang \| Xiang-dong Wang \| Alfred F. Newton
		A basal oxyteline rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China: Oldest record for the tribe Euphaniini
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 10 April 2013
4		Marco Cherin \| Dawid A. Iurino \| Raffaele Sardella
		Earliest occurrence of Puma pardoides (Owen, 1846) (Carnivora, Felidae) at the Plio/Pleistocene transition in western Europe: New evidence from the Middle Villafranchian assemblage of Montopoli, Italy
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 13 March 2013
5		Michel Laurin \| Hans-Dieter Sues
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		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 1 March 2013
6		Heather F. Smith \| William Parker \| Sanet H. Kotzé \| Michel Laurin
		Multiple independent appearances of the cecal appendix in mammalian evolution and an investigation of related ecological and anatomical factors
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 7 February 2013
7		Marie Orange \| Tristan Carter \| François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec
		Sourcing obsidian from Tell Aswad and Qdeir 1 (Syria) by SEM-EDS and EDXRF: Methodological implications
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Available online 1 February 2013
8		Josep M. Robles \| Joan Madurell-Malapeira \| Juan Abella \| Cheyenn Rotgers \| Raül Carmona \| Sergio Almécija \| Jordi Balaguer \| David M. Alba
		New Pseudaelurus and Styriofelis remains (Carnivora: Felidae) from the Middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin)
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 101-113
9		Valery Zeitoun \| Prasit Auetrakulvit \| Hubert Forestier \| Antoine Zazzo \| Gourgen Davtian \| Supaporn Nakbunlung \| Chaturaporn Tiamtinkrit
		Discovery of a Mesolithic burial near the painted rock-shelter of Ban Tha Si (Lampang province, Northern Thailand): Implications for regional mortuary practices
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 127-136
10		Vincenza Forgia \| Patricia Martín \| Juan Manuel López-García \| Andreu Ollé \| Josep Maria Vergès \| Ethel Allué \| Diego E. Angelucci \| Massimo Arnone \| Hugues-Alexandre Blain \| Francesc Burjachs \| Isabel Expósito \| Andrea Messina \| Llorenç Picornell \| Anna Rodríguez \| Giuseppa Scopelliti \| Luca Sineo \| Giovanni Virruso \| Enrico Alessi \| Giovanni Di Simone \| Juan Ignacio Morales \| Enrico Pagano \| Oscar Belvedere
		New data on Sicilian prehistoric and historic evolution in a mountain context, Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Italy)
		Comptes Rendus Palevol, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 115-126

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Comptes Rendus Palevol

Articles in French and English, abstracts in both languages

Most cited

Special issues

Mainland and insular Asia: Current debates about first settlements L'Asie continentale et insulaire : quelques points d?actualite sur les premiers peuplements

Perspectives on vertebrate evolution : topics and problems

La notion d'espece en paleontologie : ontogenese, variabilite, evolution

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