Palaeoworld

(Quarterly, since 2006)

Editors-in-chief: Qun Yang and David Harper

Associate Editors: Jin Meng, Ian G. Percival, Yongdong Wang, Shucheng Xie, Xunlai Yuan, Xingliang Zhang, Yichun Zhang and Min Zhu

Palaeoworld is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to the study of past life and its environment. We encourage submission of original manuscripts on all aspects of palaeontology and stratigraphy, comparisons of regional and global data in time and space, and results generated by interdisciplinary investigations in related fields. Some issues will be devoted entirely to a special theme whereas others will be composed of contributed articles. Palaeoworld is dedicated to serving a broad spectrum of geoscientists and palaeobiologists as well as serving as a resource for students in fields as diverse as palaeobiology, evolutionary biology, taxonomy and phylogeny, geobiology, historical geology, and palaeoenvironment.

Palaeoworld publishes original articles in the following areas:

•Phylogeny and taxonomic studies of all fossil groups

•Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy

•Palaeoecology, palaeoenvironments and global changes throughout Earth history

•Tempo and mode of biological evolution

•Biological events in Earth history (e.g., extinctions, radiations)

•Ecosystem evolution

•Geobiology and molecular palaeobiology

•Palaeontological and stratigraphical methods

•Interdisciplinary studies focusing on fossils and strata

Palaeoworld accepts the following categories of contributions:

•Palaeoworld Perspectives

•Rapid communications

•Original technical research papers and case studies

•Review articles (normally invited)

•Collections of articles on a special theme

•Letters to the Editors

•Book reviews

Website: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1871174X

Online submission: https://www.editorialmanager.com/palwor/default.aspx

Back issues (Volume 1-14) are available at:

http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/sp/Palaeoworldbackup/

Contact information:

Siwei Chen, Palaeoworld Editorial Office, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, CHINA; E-mail: Palaeoworld@nigpas.ac.cn; Phone/Fax: +86 25 83282197