Geobios is an academic journal published bimonthly by the Dutch publishing house Elsevier

Elsevier

Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....

. Geobios is an international journal of paleontology.

Description

Articles are published in English, French, Spanish and German. In addition to the language of the article, abstracts and keywords are published in French and English. Although devoted to general paleontology, related topics such as paleobiology

Paleobiology

Paleobiology is a growing and comparatively new discipline which combines the methods and findings of the natural science biology with the methods and findings of the earth science paleontology...

, stratigraphy

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering . It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks....

, biostratigraphy

Biostratigraphy

Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them. Usually the aim is correlation, demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period...

, paleogeography and paleoecology

Paleoecology

Paleoecology uses data from fossils and subfossils to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. It involves the study of fossil organisms and their associated remains, including their life cycle, living interactions, natural environment, and manner of death and burial to reconstruct the...

are also covered.

History

Geobios was first published in 1968. In 2000 it became the official publication of the European Association of Paleontology. Since 2001 the journal has been published by Elsevier.

External links

• Geobios website