Fossil Record

Aims & Scope

Fossil Record (FR) is the palaeontological journal of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

This journal was founded in 1998 under the name Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe and appears with two issues each year.

Fossil Record publishes original papers in all areas of palaeontology including the taxonomy and systematics of fossil organisms, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, and evolution.

All taxonomic groups are treated, including invertebrates, microfossils, plants, and vertebrates.

Fossil Record emphasizes specimen-based research and particularly encourages publication of studies based on fossil material by applying analytical methods in the field of palaeobiology.

With the above objective, Fossil Record covers the following fields: taxonomy and biodiversity; evolutionary (palaeo-)biology; changes in taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity; phylogeny; evolution and development; biogeochemistry; biomineralization; Earth system sciences and global change.

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Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Earth and Planetary Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 550.00 EUR. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• First fossil species of ship-timber beetles (Coleoptera, Lymexylidae) from Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Shûhei, Vitaly Yu., Dmitry V., Evgeny E.

• The easternmost record of the largest anguine lizard that has ever lived – Pseudopus pannonicus (Squamata, Anguidae): new fossils from the late Neogene of Eastern Europe

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Erwan, Elena V., Igor G., Andrej

• Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Sita, Uthumporn, Prapasiri, Thanit, Phornphen

• Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Davit, Andrej, Zbigniew, Thomas

• Fossil assemblage from the Khok Pha Suam locality of northeastern, Thailand: an overview of vertebrate diversity from the Early Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation (Aptian-Albian)

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Sita, Uthumporn, Komsorn, Prapasiri, Thanit, Apirut, Kamonlak, Phornphen

• Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ricardo, Adam S.

• The first adult mantis lacewing from Baltic amber, with an evaluation of the post-Cretaceous loss of morphological diversity of raptorial appendages in Mantispidae

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Viktor, Ricardo, Michael S., Jörg U., Christine, Marie K., Paula G., Corleone, Carolin, Joachim T.

• An alternative interpretation of small-bodied turtles from the “Middle Purbeck” of England as a new species of compsemydid turtle

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Walter G., Jason R., Vincent, Yann

• The Rhabdodontidae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia), an enigmatic dinosaur group endemic to the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Felix J., Attila, Zoltán

• Revision of 18 ichneumonid fossil species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) highlights the need for open nomenclature in palaeontology

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Tamara, Gavin R., Seraina