Notice
New for 2012 - The Edward Forbes Prize for early career systematists.
Welcome
The Palaeontographical Society exists for the purpose of figuring and describing British fossils by publishing monographs. Information about how to join the Society and how to obtain its publications can be found on this site. Intending authors can also download information about submitting a manuscript.
New Logo for the Society
The Palaeontographical Society has adopted a new logo. The specimen featured is Eteoderoceras obesum (Spath, 1925) from the Black Ven Marls, Raricostatum Zone, Densinodulum Subzone, Sinemurian, Lower Jurassic of Stonebarrow, Charmouth, Dorset. It was featured on Plate 10, fig. 2a of one of our recent monographs (Edmunds 2009) and is held in the National Museum of Wales.
Edmunds, M. 2009. A revision of the Lower Jurassic ammonite genus Eoderoceras Spath and its immediate descendants and other relatives. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society London: 1-89, pls 1-40 (Issue 633, part of Volume 163)
Research funding and the Edward Forbes Prize
Awards from the Palaeontological Society Research Fund are made to assist palaeontological research (travel, visits to museums, fieldwork, etc.) within the Society’s remit of describing the fossil fauna and flora of the British Isles.
The next deadline for applications is the 25th of February, 2012.
The Society has instituted The Edward Forbes Prize for the best published paper dealing with the systematics of any British or Irish fossil assemblage, by an early career palaeontologist. Submissions of appropriate papers published in 2011 are now sought.
Please go to this page for full details of eligibility criteria and how to apply.