About Fossils

Aims

Fossils (ISSN 2813-6284) is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal concerning all aspects of palaeontology. It publishes regular research papers, review papers and communications about all groups of fossil organisms, from all time periods, from the earliest living beings to the Holocene. We aim to encourage all kinds of palaeontological publications, from short announcements of significant discoveries to longer descriptions and reviews, as well as papers of a more theoretical nature or discussing new approaches and techniques. A high standard of illustration will be provided, as it is essential for descriptive palaeontology papers. Comments on papers previously published in the journal will be welcome in the form of short letters.

Scope

This journal covers all topics related to the study of fossils, whatever their geological age and systematic position. All the main branches of palaeontology are covered:

• Invertebrate palaeontology

• Vertebrate palaeontology

• Palaeobotany

• Micropalaeontology.

Within these large categories, fields of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Description of newly discovered fossil specimens and taxa

• Reviews of fossil groups and their evolution

• Fossil-based phylogenies

• Functional anatomy of fossil organisms (including comparisons with living forms)

• Biostratigraphy

• Palaeobiogeography

• Palaeoecology

• Palaeobiology

• Taphonomy (including experimental taphonomy) and fossilization

• Trace fossils

• Geochemistry applied to fossils

• Ancient DNA and other biomolecules

• Extinctions and their causes.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Fossils will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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