Overview

Published continuously since 1895, Bulletins of American Paleontology (ISSN 0007-5779) is one of the oldest peer-reviewed paleontological journals in the world and features high quality monographs in paleontology or in neontological subjects that impact paleontology (see Information for Authors below). This serial publication is issued twice each year, and is a recognized outlet for especially lengthy papers, such as dissertations or the systematic sections of dissertations, that tend to be more difficult to publish in conventional journals. BAP is distributed widely to academic libraries and museums worldwide.

Since 1986, BAP has been the home of the series “Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic.” Originally funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the DR Project was one of the first large multidisciplinary projects to collect fossils through a continuous 5-10 million year Neogene Caribbean sequence. During three field seasons in 1978-1980, a small field party (led by John Saunders and Peter Jung of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, NMB) measured sections and collected large samples of microfossils and macrofossils at closely spaced intervals along nine river sections in the Cibao Valley. Age dates for the sections were determined through study of planktic foraminifera and nanofossils. The collections were accessioned by the NMB, and distributed to specialists for identification and preparation of systematic monographs. To date, 25 systematic monographs have been published in the Bulletins of American Paleontology. For more details, see NMITA (Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America).

BAP is available by single-issue purchase from the PRI Online Store. If you are interested in a print back-issue of BAP which does not show up on our online store, please inquire with our publications department for volume availability and see our back-issue pricing guide. Most issues published between 1895 and 2007 (nos. 1-371) are now also available as open access, free PDFs through Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Access a complete list of all published issues of BAP (along with links to BHL and the PRI Online Store) via the button below.

Current Issue

Devonian of New York, three volume set edited by Charles A. Ver Straeten, D. Jeffrey Over, and Donald Woodrow. Bulletins of American Paleontology, No. 403-408.

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Subscriptions and Publication Schedule

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Publication of Bulletins of American Paleontology (BAP) is currently behind schedule. A subscription year covers two individual issues or a single double issue. For example, subscribers who have paid for a 2018 subscription to the Bulletins received No. 399-400 (a double issue) shortly after it was published in March 2021. Alignments between recent and forthcoming subscription years and their corresponding publication years (or planned publication years) are as follows:

  • Subscription Year 2018: BAP 399-400 (double issue published Mar. 2021)

  • Subscription Year 2019: BAP 401 (published Aug. 2021) and BAP 402 (published Apr. 2023)

  • Subscription Year 2020: BAP 403-404 (large double-issue, volume 1 of 3, published Jul. 2023)

  • Subscription Year 2021: BAP 405-406 (large double-issue, volume 2 of 3, published Jul. 2023)

  • Subscription Year 2022: BAP 407-408 (large double-issue, volume 3 of 3, published Jul. 2023)

  • Subscription Year 2023: BAP 409 and 410 (planned to be published in the first half of 2024)

A listing of all published issues of the Bulletins of American Paleontology is available here.

Information for Authors

Information for authors planning to submit a manuscript for publication in the Bulletins of American Paleontology may be accessed below.

Palaeontographica Americana

PRI published 61 issues of a large-format paleontology journal titled Palaeontographica Americana from 1916 to 2013 (the final issue, no. 61, was published in 2008). A complete list of all issues of PA, along with links to free digitized copies on the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is available via the button below.

Reprinting Images

If you are interested in reprinting an image from the Bulletins of American Paleontology, or any other PRI publication, please email Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jonathan Hendricks.