Taxonomy in Marine Paleontology
A special issue of Taxonomy (ISSN 2673-6500).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 232
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Mollusca; paleobiogeography; paleogeography; stratigraphy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The modern world, with its organisms, ecosystems and biogeography, can only be understood if its geological roots are considered. The strength of paleontology is its understanding of deep time and the extrinsic factors that have shaped the evolution of life for 3.8 billion years. Since the origin of life, it has been the sediments of the oceans that have especially recorded the history of life as perfect archives. This Special Issue is dedicated to the diverse forms of marine life. The scope will span from the Precambrian to the Pleistocene and includes all organisms from protozoans to vertebrates.
Taxonomy has already been open to the Earth science community and published articles on many fossil groups. Now, we would like to encourage paleontologists in particular to present their systematic and taxonomic research in our journal. We expect papers on all levels of systematics and will also welcome revisions of larger groups. Taxonomy-based papers discussing major steps in evolution, extinctions or paleobiogeographic patterns are of major interest. Manuscripts linking paleontological data with molecular data will also be of great importance for biologists.
Prof. Dr. Mathias Harzhauser
Dr. Oleg Mandic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fossil
- marine
- paleontology
- Phanerozoic eon
- Proterozoic eon
- deep time
- evolution
- extinction
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