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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
Upper Cretaceous coccoliths from Texas and Europe David Bukry KU Paleontological Contributions 1969
Paleoecology and paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas Robert W. Frey KU Paleontological Contributions 1970
Trace fossils of Fort Hays Limestone Member of Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous), west-central Kansas Robert W. Frey KU Paleontological Contributions 1970
Dissepimental rugose corals of Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) rocks of KansasJ. M. Cocke KU Paleontological Contributions 1970
Crinoids of the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois Harrell L. Strimple, Raymond C. Moore KU Paleontological Contributions 1971
Rhabdomesid bryozoans of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Wolfcampian, Permian) of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma Geoffery Bruce Newton KU Paleontological Contributions 1971
Late Neogene planktonic foraminifers in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Italian stratotypes James L. Lamb, John H. Beard KU Paleontological Contributions 1972
Paleoecology and depositional environment of Fort Hays Limestone Member, Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous), west-central Kansas Robert W. Frey KU Paleontological Contributions 1972
Environmental control of conodont distribution in the Shawnee Group (Upper Pennsylvanian) of eastern Kansas Peter H. von Bitter KU Paleontological Contributions 1972
Distribution and systematics of the inarticulate brachiopods of the Ordovician carbonate mud mound of Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada F. F. Krause, A. J. Rowell KU Paleontological Contributions 1975
Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminiferal Zonation and Characteristics of Index Forms R. M. Stainforth, James L. Lamb, Hanspeter Luterbacher, John H. Beard, Russell M. Jeffords KU Paleontological Contributions 1975
Trace fossils and depositional environment of four clastic units, Upper Pennsylvanian megacyclothems, northeast Kansas William G. Hakes KU Paleontological Contributions 1976
Carboniferous and Permian Bactritoidea (Cephalopoda) in North America Royal H. Mapes KU Paleontological Contributions 1979
Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America George D. Stanley Jr. KU Paleontological Contributions 1979
Stratigraphic significance of uvigerinid foraminifers in the Western Hemisphere James L. Lamb, Theo H. Miller KU Paleontological Contributions 1984
Supplement to Echinodermata Articles 8-10 Raymond C. Moore, Russell M. Jeffords, Theo H. Miller KU Paleontological Contributions 1968
Through a glass darkly: taxonomy, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy of the Olenellina Allison R. Palmer, Lada N. Repina KU Paleontological Contributions 1993
Remarkable New Birdlike Dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana David A. Burnham, Kraig L. Derstler, Philip J. Currie, Robert T. Bakker, Zhonghe Zhou, John H. Ostrom KU Paleontological Contributions 2000
Upper Permian Inozoid, Demospongid, and Hexactinellid Sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia J. Keith Rigby, Baba Senowbari-Daryan KU Paleontological Contributions 1995
Phylogenetic revision of Rhineuridae (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenia) from the Eocene to Miocene of North America Daniel I. Hembree KU Paleontological Contributions 2007