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Chief editors: Carolin Haug, Rene Hoffmann, Christian Klug, Johannes Müller, Torsten Scheyer, Alexander Schmidt & Florian Witzmann

Fossil Record (FR) is the palaeontological journal of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. This journal was founded in 1998 under the name Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe and appears with two issues each year. Fossil Record publishes original papers in all areas of palaeontology including the taxonomy and systematics of fossil organisms, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, and evolution. All taxonomic groups are treated, including invertebrates, microfossils, plants, and vertebrates.

Recent papers

18 Oct 2021

The genus Allodia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Miocene Ethiopian amber

Valentine Bouju, Simon Rosse-Guillevic, Marion Griffon, Błażej Bojarski, Jacek Szwedo, and Vincent Perrichot

Foss. Rec., 24, 339–346, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-339-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-339-2021, 2021

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11 Oct 2021

Experimental induction of resins as a tool to understand variability in ambers

Leyla J. Seyfullah, Emily A. Roberts, Phillip E. Jardine, and Alexander R. Schmidt

Foss. Rec., 24, 321–337, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-321-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-321-2021, 2021

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30 Sep 2021

The life cycle in late Paleozoic eryopid temnospondyls: developmental variation, plasticity and phylogeny

Rainer R. Schoch

Foss. Rec., 24, 295–319, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-295-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-295-2021, 2021

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09 Sep 2021

The southernmost occurrence of Ichthyosaurus from the Sinemurian of Portugal

João Sousa and Octávio Mateus

Foss. Rec., 24, 287–294, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-287-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-287-2021, 2021

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02 Sep 2021

A new odontocete (Inioidea, Odontoceti) from the late Neogene of North Carolina, USA

Stephen J. Godfrey, Carolina S. Gutstein, and Donald J. Morgan III

Foss. Rec., 24, 275–285, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-275-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-275-2021, 2021

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Highlight articles

21 Feb 2020

Aras Valley (northwest Iran): high-resolution stratigraphy of a continuous central Tethyan Permian–Triassic boundary section

Jana Gliwa, Abbas Ghaderi, Lucyna Leda, Martin Schobben, Sara Tomás, William J. Foster, Marie-Béatrice Forel, Nahideh Ghanizadeh Tabrizi, Stephen E. Grasby, Ulrich Struck, Ali Reza Ashouri, and Dieter Korn

Foss. Rec., 23, 33–69, https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-33-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-33-2020, 2020

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30 Jun 2021 Update of journal metrics

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30 Jun 2021 Update of journal metrics

The journal metrics were updated and the current numbers are available from the journal metrics overview.

29 Oct 2020 Institutional agreement with ETH Zurich now for corresponding authors

As of 1 November 2020 the direct settlement of article processing charges (APCs) between the ETH Zurich and Copernicus Publications will be valid for corresponding authors.

29 Oct 2020 Institutional agreement with ETH Zurich now for corresponding authors

As of 1 November 2020 the direct settlement of article processing charges (APCs) between the ETH Zurich and Copernicus Publications will be valid for corresponding authors.

30 Jul 2020 Two new fossil shark species discovered

A team of palaeontologists headed by David Cicimurri from the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia describe two new fossil shark species from Georgia and Alabama in the United States which are approximately 65 and 35 million years old, respectively.

30 Jul 2020 Two new fossil shark species discovered

A team of palaeontologists headed by David Cicimurri from the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia describe two new fossil shark species from Georgia and Alabama in the United States which are approximately 65 and 35 million years old, respectively.

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