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Looking for printed Treatise Volumes for purchase? Find all previously published volumes, along with our two most recent publications, Part B, Prokaryota (Bacteria and Archaea), and Part V, Second Revision, Hemichordata (Graptolithina), on our Treatise Publication store webpage.  For additional information, please email us at paleo@ku.edu.

Previously Published Treatise Volumes

Part E, Porifera (Revised), vol. 4 & 5 (2015)

Part T, Echinodermata 2 (Revised), vol. 3 (2011)

Part L, Mollusca 4 (Revised), vol. 2 (2009)

Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised), vol. 6 (2007)

Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised), vol. 5 (2006)

Part B, Protista 1, vol. 1 (2005)

Part E, Porifera (Revised), vol. 3 (2004)

Part E, Porifera (Revised), vol. 2 (2003)

Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised), vol. 4 (2002)

Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised), vol. 2 & 3 (2000)

Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised), vol. 1 (1997)

Part O, Arthropoda 1 (Revised), vol. 1 (1997)

Part L, Mollusca 4 (Revised), vol. 4 (1996)

Part R, Arthropoda 4, vol. 3  (1992)

Part G, Bryozoa (Revised), vol. 1 (1983)

Part F, Coelenterata, Supplement 1, vol. 1 & 2 (1981)

Part W, Miscellanea, Supplement 2 (1981)

Part E, Archaeocyatha (Revised), vol. 1 (1972)

Part V, Graptolithina (Revised) (1970)

Part R, Arthropoda 4, vol. 1 & 2 (1969)

Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 1 & 2 (1969)

Part U, Echinodermata 3, vol. 1 & 2 (1966)

Part H, Brachiopoda, vol. 1 & 2 (1965)

Part C, Protista 2, vol. 1 & 2 (1964)

Part W, Miscellanea (1962)

Part Q, Arthropoda 3 (1961)

Treatise Online was first established in 2010 with the purpose of providing scholars and researchers early access to current sections of upcoming volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 

Paleontological Contributions is an online-only, open-access, rapid publication journal that currently contains papers and articles published from 1947 to the present. It is a monographic journal that has published on the taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossil remains both from Kansas and beyond, and by KU researchers and those from other institutions both within and outside the United States. We have also produced special publications that cover various topics including stratigraphy, fossil collecting, and the history of paleontology and geology at KU.

Paleontological Contributions supersedes the University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, new series, which consolidated into one format the three series that were published previously, Monographs, Articles, and Papers. All previous versions of Paleontological Contributions can be found on the University of Kansas ScholarWorks site.

TitleAuthor(s)Publication TypeYear of publication
Treatise Online no. 57: Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eodoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea.Michael Howarth Treatise Online - Articles 2013
Treatise Online no. 58: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 4A–B: Hypercalcified extant and fossil chaetetid-type and Post-Devonian stromatoporoid-type Demospongiae: Systematic descriptions.Ronald R. West, Jean Vacelet, Rachel A. Wood, Philippe Willenz, Willard D. Hartman Treatise Online - Articles 2013
Treatise Online no. 59: Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8F: Systematic descriptions: Infraorder PalaeopalaemonidaRodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa Treatise Online - Articles 2013
Treatise Online no. 60: Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8G: Systematic descriptions: Infraorder PolychelidaRodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa, Günter Schweigert, Alessandro Garassino Treatise Online - Articles 2013
Treatise Online no. 61: Part N, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 4: The early shell: Ontogeny, features, and evolutionNikolaus Malchus, André Sartori Treatise Online - Articles 2013
Treatise Online no. 63: Part G, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 3: Preparation, Imaging, and Conservation of Paleozoic Bryozoans for StudyPatrick N. Wyse Jackson, Caroline J. Buttler Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 64: Part G, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 8H: Names of Indeterminate, Unrecognizable, or Excluded Genera Previously Assigned to FenestrataFrank K. McKinney, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 66: Part G, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 8A: Order Fenestrata: Morphology and GrowthFrank K. McKinney, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 67: Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8H: Systematic Descriptions: Infraorder AchelataCarrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann, Hiroaki Karasawa, Alessandro Garassino Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 68: Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8I: Systematic Descriptions: Infraorder GlypheideaRodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 69: Part M, Chapter 12: The Buccal Apparatus of Recent and Fossil FormsMarion Nixon Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 70: Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 3: LytoceratoideaRené Hoffmann Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 71: Part N, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 5: Functional Shell Morphology of Noncementing BivalviaSteven M. Stanley Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 72: Part N, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 19: Evolutionary Ecology of the BivalviaSteven M. Stanley Treatise Online - Articles 2015
Treatise Online no. 73: Part M, Chapter 13: Fossilized Soft Tissues in ColeoideaDesmond Donovan, Dirk Fuchs Treatise Online - Articles 2016
Treatise Online no. 74: Part R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8J: Systematic Descriptions: Infraorder AstacideaRodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa Treatise Online - Articles 2016
Treatise Online no. 75: Part M, Chapter 9C: Composition and Structure of Gladii in Fossil ColeoideaDesmond Donovan Treatise Online - Articles 2016
Treatise Online no. 77: Part M, Chapter 9A: The Gladius and its Vestiges in Extant ColeoideaViacheslav A. Bizikov, Ronald B. Toll Treatise Online - Articles 2016
Treatise Online no. 78: Part M, Chapter 21: History of the Study of Fossil ColeoideaDesmond Donovan, Wolfgang Riegraf Treatise Online - Articles 2016
Treatise Online no. 80: Part F, Volume 2, Chapter 10: Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family RhizangiidaeR. C. Baron-Szabo, S. D. Cairns Treatise Online - Articles 2016