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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. 17, Part M, Chapter 3: Anatomy of Recent formsMarion Nixon Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 18, Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 9C: Internal morphology of the Paleozoic StromatoporoideaColin W. Stearn Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 19, Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 16E: Stromatoporellida, Stromatoporida, Syringostromatida, Amphiporida, and genera with uncertain affinitiesColin W. Stearn Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 20, Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2A: Introduction to the fossil hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae).Ronald R. West Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 21: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2B: Functional morphology of the fossil hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae)Ronald R. West Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 22: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2C: Classification of the fossil and living hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae)Ronald R. West Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 23: Part M, Chapter 7: Ecology and mode of life.Marion Nixon Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 24: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 3: Introduction to Post-Devonian Hypercalcified Sponges (Stromatoporoid Type)Rachel A. Wood Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 25: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 9B: External morphology of the Paleozoic Stromatoporoidea: Shapes and growth habitsBarry D. Webby, Stephan Kershaw Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 26: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 16C: ClathrodictyidaHeldur Nestor Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 27: Part M, Chapter 4: Physiology of ColeoidsMartin J. Wells Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 28: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 7: Sphinctozoan and Inozoan hypercalcified sponges: An overviewJ. Keith Rigby, B. Senobari-Daryan Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 29: Part N, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 24: Extinction in the marine BivalviaPaul G. Harnik, Rowan Lockwood Treatise Online - Articles 2011
Treatise Online, no. 30: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 17: Class Uncertain, Order Pulchrilaminida, new orderBarry D. Webby Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 31: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 13: Paleoecology of the Paleozoic StromatoporoideaStephan Kershaw Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 32: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 12: Biostratigraphy of the Paleozoic StromatoporoideaBarry D. Webby, Colin W. Stearn, Heldur Nestor Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 33: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 10: Origins and Early Evolution of the Paleozoic StromatoporoideaBarry D. Webby Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 34: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 14: Paleobiogeography of the Paleozoic StromatoporoideaCarl W. Stock, Heldur Nestor, Barry D. Webby Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 35: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2D: Evolution of the hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae)Ronald R. West Treatise Online - Articles 2012
Treatise Online, no. 36: Part E, Revised, Volume 4, Chapter 2E: Paleoecology of the hypercalcified chaetetid-type Porifera (Demospongiae)Ronald R. West Treatise Online - Articles 2012