Palaeoworld
Published on behalf of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS
Palaeoworld is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to studies on palaeontology and stratigraphy centered in China and the neighboring regions, encouraging original works of fossils and strata, comparative studies worldwide, and interdisciplinary approaches in related disciplines. Some issues will be devoted entirely to a special theme in the discipline. Palaeoworld is oriented to a broad spectrum of geoscience researchers as well as experts and students in evolutionary biology who are interested in historical geology and biotic evolution.
Palaeoworld publishes papers in the following areas:
• Systematic studies of all fossil groups
• Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy
• Palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and global changes in Earth's history
• Tempo and mode of biological evolution
• Studies of biological events in Earth's history
• Evolving ecosystem
• Molecular palaeontology
• Methods in palaeontology and stratigraphy
• Interdisciplinary studies of fossil and strata
Palaeoworld accepts the following categories of contributions:
• Original research papers and case studies
• Review articles (normally invited)
• Special theme issues
• Short notes
• Letters to the Editors
• Book reviews
Editors-in-Chief: Douglas H. Erwin , Qun Yang
Imprint: Elsevier
ISSN: 1871-174X
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Top 10 Cited (articles published in the last five years)
Extracted from Scopus (on Sun Jun 30)43 Isozaki, Y. | Kawahata, H. | Minoshima, K. The Capitanian (Permian) Kamura cooling event: The beginning of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 16-30 31 Hays, L.E. | Beatty, T. | Henderson, C.M. | Love, G.D. | Summons, R.E. Evidence for photic zone euxinia through the end-Permian mass extinction in the Panthalassic Ocean (Peace River Basin, Western Canada) Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 39-50 18 Song, H.-J. | Tong, J.-N. | Zhang, K.-X. | Wang, Q.-X. | Chen, Z.Q. Foraminiferal survivors from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in the Meishan section, South China Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 105-119 18 Coney, L. | Reimold, W.U. | Hancox, P.J. | Mader, D. | Koeberl, C. | McDonald, I. | Struck, U. | Vajda, V. | Kamo, S.L. Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of the Permian-Triassic boundary in the continental realm of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 67-104 18 Shen, S.-Z. | Wang, Y. | Henderson, C.M. | Cao, C.-Q. | Wang, W. Biostratigraphy and lithofacies of the Permian System in the Laibin-Heshan area of Guangxi, South China Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 120-139 17 Young, G.C. | Burrow, C.J. | Long, J.A. | Turner, S. | Choo, B. Devonian macrovertebrate assemblages and biogeography of East Gondwana (Australasia, Antarctica) Palaeoworld, Volume 19, Issue 1-2, 2010-03-01, Pages 55-74 16 Zhou, Z.-Y. An overview of fossil Ginkgoales Palaeoworld, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2009-03-01, Pages 1-22 15 Shen, S.-Z. | Shi, G.R. Latest Guadalupian brachiopods from the Guadalupian/Lopingian boundary GSSP section at Penglaitan in Laibin, Guangxi, South China and implications for the timing of the pre-Lopingian crisis Palaeoworld, Volume 18, Issue 2-3, 2009-09-01, Pages 152-161 14 Cassinis, G. | Perotti, C.R. A stratigraphic and tectonic review of the Italian Southern Alpine Permian Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, 2007-01-01, Pages 140-172 14 Pott, C. | Krings, M. | Kerp, H. The Carnian (Late Triassic) flora from Lunz in Lower Austria: Paleoecological considerations Palaeoworld, Volume 17, Issue 3-4, 2008-12-01, Pages 172-182 - View all items
Special issues
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Radiolarians through time: systematics, biostratigraphy and paleoceanographic significance. Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists
Volume 20, Issues 2-3,
Published August 2011 - Buy now
"Fossil corals, archaeocyaths and sponges" Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera
Volume 19, Issues 3-4,
Published December 2010 - Buy now
Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate biogeography, palaeogeography and climate (IGCP Project 491)
Volume 19, Issues 1-2,
Published March 2010
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Sun Jun 301 Mao-Yan Zhu | Loren E. Babcock | Shan-Chi Peng Advances in Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology: Integrating correlation techniques, paleobiology, taphonomy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction Palaeoworld, Volume 15, Issue 3-4, August𢀓November 2006, Pages 217-222 2 Zhi-Yan Zhou An overview of fossil Ginkgoales Palaeoworld, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 1-22 3 H. Wopfner | X.C. Jin Pangea Megasequences of Tethyan Gondwana-margin reflect global changes of climate and tectonism in Late Palaeozoic and Early Triassic times𢀔A review Palaeoworld, Volume 18, Issue 2-3, September 2009, Pages 169-192 4 Shu Zhong Shen | Chang-Qun Cao | Charles M. Henderson | Xiang-Dong Wang | Guang R. Shi | Yue Wang | Wei Wang End-Permian mass extinction pattern in the northern peri-Gondwanan region Palaeoworld, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 3-30 5 Jun-Yuan Chen The origins and key innovations of vertebrates and arthropods Palaeoworld, Volume 20, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 257-278 6 J.B. Jago | Wen-Long Zang | Xiaowen Sun | G.A. Brock | J.R. Paterson | C.B. Skovsted A review of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of South Australia Palaeoworld, Volume 15, Issue 3-4, August𢀓November 2006, Pages 406-423 7 Mirosław Słowakiewicz | Hubert Kiersnowski | Ryszard Wagner Correlation of the Middle and Upper Permian marine and terrestrial sedimentary sequences in Polish, German, and USA Western Interior Basins with reference to global time markers Palaeoworld, Volume 18, Issue 2-3, September 2009, Pages 193-211 8 G. Cassinis | C.R. Perotti A stratigraphic and tectonic review of the Italian Southern Alpine Permian Palaeoworld, Volume 16, Issue 1-3, January𢀓September 2007, Pages 140-172 9 Wei-Ming Wang Correlation of pollen sequences in the Neogene palynofloristic regions of China Palaeoworld, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 77-99 10 Ge Sun | David L. Dilcher | Shao-Lin Zheng A review of recent advances in the study of early angiosperms from northeastern China Palaeoworld, Volume 17, Issue 3-4, December 2008, Pages 166-171 - View all items
Recent articles
Sun Jun 301 Wen-Wen Wen | San-Ping Xie | Ke-Nan Liu | Bai-Nian Sun | Lei Wang | Hong Li | Ke-Qun Dao Two species of fern macrofossil from the late Miocene of Lincang, Yunnan, China and their paleoecological implications Palaeoworld, Available online 24 June 2013 2 Lucy A. Muir | Tin-Wai Ng | Xiang-Feng Li | Yuan-Dong Zhang | Jih-Pai Lin Palaeoscolecidan worms and a possible nematode from the Early Ordovician of South China Palaeoworld, Available online 17 June 2013 3 Hamed Zand-Moghadam | Reza Moussavi-Harami | Asadollah Mahboubi Sequence stratigraphy of the Early𢀓Middle Devonian succession (Padeha Formation) in Tabas Block, East-Central Iran: Implication for mixed tidal flat deposits Palaeoworld, Available online 13 June 2013 4 Yun-Fa Miao | Xiao-Min Fang | Chun-Hui Song | Xiao-Li Yan | Li Xu | Chuan-Fei Chen Pollen and fossil wood's linkage with Mi-1 Glaciation in northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China Palaeoworld, Available online 11 June 2013 5 Zi-Hua Tang | Zhong-Li Ding A palynological insight into the Miocene aridification in the Eurasian interior Palaeoworld, Available online 15 May 2013 6 Frédéric M.B. Jacques | Tao Su | Yong-Jiang Huang | Li Wang | Zhe-Kun Zhou A global-scale test for monsoon indices used in palaeoclimatic reconstruction Palaeoworld, Available online 14 March 2013 7 Li-Da Xing | Martin G. Lockley | Hendrik Klein | Jian-Ping Zhang | Qing He | Julien D. Divay | Li-Qi Qi | Cheng-Kai Jia Dinosaur, bird and pterosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of Wuerhe asphaltite area, Xinjiang, China, with notes on overlapping track relationships Palaeoworld, Volume 22, Issue 1-2, June 2013, Pages 42-51 8 Christian Gaillard | Davide Olivero | Marie Chebance Probable aestivation burrows from the Eocene/Oligocene transition in south-eastern France and their palaeoenvironmental implications Palaeoworld, Volume 22, Issue 1-2, June 2013, Pages 52-67 9 Cen Shen | Brian R. Pratt | Tian Lan | Jin-Bo Hou | Lei Chen | Bao-Qiao Hao | Xi-Guang Zhang The search for Orsten-type fossils in southern China Palaeoworld, Volume 22, Issue 1-2, June 2013, Pages 1-9 10 Mun-Zu Won | William J. Iams Early Ordovician (early Arenig) radiolarians from the Cow Head Group and review of the Little Port Complex fauna, Western Newfoundland Palaeoworld, Volume 22, Issue 1-2, June 2013, Pages 10-31 - View all items
