Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

12/02/2026

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09/02/2026

Just published full Open Access:

An exceptionally well-preserved starfish fauna (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Early Miocene of southeastern France

Anaïs Travers, Marine Fau, Michel Roux, Pauline Coster, Bertrand Lefebvre

A new starfish fauna from the Late Burdigalian (Early Miocene) of the Apt basin (Rhodano-Provençal gulf, southeastern France) is described here. This new starfish fauna comes from accumulation levels of marine invertebrates, including exceptionally well-preserved pectinid bivalves and echinoderms. ...

09/02/2026

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A morphometric approach to the taxonomic dilemma of Zonozoe drabowiensis Barrande, 1872 and Zonoscutum solum Chlupáč, 1999 (Upper Ordovician, Czech Republic)

Lorenzo Lustri, Lukáš Laibl, Luis Collantes, Jana Bruthansová, Martina Nohejlová, Yu Liu, Stephen Pates

Zonozoe drabowiensis Barrande, 1872 and Zonoscutum solum Chlupáč, 1999 are rare and incompletely preserved arthropods from the Upper Ordovician of the Czech Republic. Their classification has been a subject of debate for over a century due to the limited number of specimens, lack of knowledge rela...

09/02/2026

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Palynological evidence for floristic turnover and rising diversity in the early Burdigalian of south-western Patagonia (Argentina)

Mariano Jesús Tapia, Jose Ignacio Cuitiño, Eduardo Guillermo Ottone, María Verónica Guler, Viviana Dora Barreda, Luis Palazzesi

During the Early Miocene (ca. 23–16 Ma), Patagonia underwent pronounced climatic reorganisations that influenced distribution patterns and biodiversity across terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Here, we explore the response of the floras from south-western Patagonia to the climatic shifts that occ...

09/02/2026

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Macromesodon Blake, 1905 and Apomesodon Poyato-Ariza & Wenz, 2002 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of England, France, and Germany

Martin Ebert

The pycnodontiform genera Macromesodon and Apomesodon from the Upper Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of Central and Western Europe are described in detail and their union into one genus is rejected. Nomenclature problems are explained and the differences between these two genera are described, sup...

01/02/2026

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Virtual endocasts of the Paleogene Ctenodactyloidea and brain evolution in ctenodactyloid rodents

Qi Li, Alexander Bi & Qian Li

Asian ctenodactyloids were highly diverse in the Paleogene. As early rodents, they provide important insights into the earliest evolution of the rodent brain. Here, we describe the first virtual endocasts of the early Eocene Exmus mini and the Oligocene Bounomys ulantatalensis and compare them with....

01/02/2026

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Ammonite biostratigraphy on the platform–slope transition between the Vercors Urgonian platform and the Vocontian Trough (S–E France)

Antoine Pictet, Serge Ferry, Lara Pietra

This study presents a high-resolution biostratigraphic analysis of a nearly 30 km long platform-to-slope transect on the southern margin of the Vercors Urgonian platform, based on detailed ammonite data. The primary objective is to refine the chronostratigraphic framework of the upper Barremian Urgo...

01/02/2026

Editorial announcing the migration of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology from Springer to Pensoft Publishers was just published along with several other articles all fully Open Access:

In 2025, with the contract with SpringerOpen running out at the end of the year, the Kommission for the SJP and the Swiss Geological Society decided to start collaborating from 2026 onwards with a publisher, where processes are more streamlined to the needs of the SJP. This will allow us to satisfy....

03/12/2025

Preprint of the Editorial announcing the migration of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology from Springer to Pensoft Publishers:

In 2025, with the contract with SpringerOpen running out at the end of the year, the Kommission for the SJP and the Swiss Geological Society decided to start collaborating from 2026 onwards with a publisher, where processes are more streamlined to the needs of the SJP. This will allow us to satisfy....

03/12/2025

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology will change publisher from Springer to Pensoft Publishers from January 2026 on. Please check out the new website:
https://sjp.pensoft.net/
Manuscripts can already be submitted!

 Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is an international fully Open Access peer-reviewed journal. It publishes original research and review articles of interest to the international community about all fields of palaeontology including alpha taxonomy & systematics, palaeobiology, palaeobiodiversity,...

06/09/2025

Check out newly published full Open Access articles in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology: https://sjpp.springeropen.com/

10/07/2025

https://www.20min.ch/story/sensationsfund-neue-haiart-am-kleinen-mythen-entdeckt-103377996

Wanderer Timo Lübke entdeckt am Kleinen Mythen im Kanton Schwyz fossile Zähne einer unbekannten Haiart. Experten von Schweizer Hochschulen bestätigten die Sensation.