Comptes Rendus Palevol is a fully electronic and peer-reviewed journal, with a continuous publication stream, devoted to palaeontology, prehistory and evolutionary sciences. It publishes original research results, in French or English, in the following domains: systematic and human palaeontology, prehistory, evolutionary biology and macroevolution, and history of sciences. Thematic issues may also be published under the responsibility of a guest editor. All articles published in Comptes Rendus Palevol are compliant with the different nomenclatural codes. In 2020, a partnership agreement is reached between the Académie des sciences and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, for coediting Comptes Rendus Palevol. |  |
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Project funded with support from the Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte (FNSO).
The Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences – Palevol were founded in 2002. Articles published from 2002 to 2018 are available online in open access. In 2002, the Comptes Rendus Palevol followed on from the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences – Series IIA – Earth and Planetary Science.
Archives of the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences are available on the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Early Oligocene palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the eastern periphery of the North Sea based on high-resolution palynological studies of the Grabówka PIG-1 borehole, northern Poland
Elżbieta WOROBIEC et al.
67-87, Published on 05 March 2025, art. 24 (6)
The first snake from the lower Eocene (MP 10-11) of the Cos locality, Phosphorites du Quercy, France
Andrej ČERŇANSKÝ et al.
61-66, Published on 26 February 2025, art. 24 (5) 
Revision of the enigmatic snake Plesiotortrix edwardsi Rochebrune, 1884 from the Phosphorites du Quercy, France
Editors in chief:
Michel Laurin (Sorbonne Université),
Philippe Taquet (Académie des sciences);
Assistant editor (Académie des sciences):
Adenise Lopes (cr-palevol@academie-sciences.fr);
Desk editor (Muséum):
Audrina Neveu (audrina.neveu@mnhn.fr).
Associate editors/Rédacteurs associés :
Micropalaeontology/
Micropaléontologie
Lorenzo Consorti (Institute of Marine Sciences, Italian National Research Council, Trieste)
Palaeobotany/
Paléobotanique
Cyrille Prestianni (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels)
Anaïs Boura (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
Metazoa/Métazoaires
Annalisa Ferretti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)
Palaeoichthyology/
Paléoichthyologie
Philippe Janvier (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France)
Mesozoic amniotes/
Amniotes du Mésozoïque
Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, United States);
Turtles/Tortues
Walter Joyce (Universität Freiburg, Switzerland)
Lepidosauromorphs/
Lépidosauromorphes
Hussam Zaher (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Birds/Oiseaux
Jingmai O’Connor (Field Museum, Chicago)
Palaeomammalogy (large and mid-sized mammals)/
Paléomammalogie (mammifères de moyenne et grande taille)
Grégoire Métais (CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Paris)
Palaeomammalogy (small mammals except for Euarchontoglires)/
Paléomammalogie (petits mammifères sauf Euarchontoglires)
Robert Asher (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
Palaeomammalogy (Euarchontoglires)/
Paléomammalogie (Euarchontoglires)
K. Christopher Beard (University of kansas, Lawrence)
Palaeoanthropology/
Paléoanthropologie
Aurélien Mounier (CNRS/Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris)
Prehistoric archaeology (Palaeolithic and Mesolithic)/
Archéologie préhistorique (Paléolithique et Mésolithique)
Nicolas Teyssandier (CNRS/Université de Toulouse, Toulouse)
Prehistoric archaeology (Neolithic and Bronze Age)/
Archéologie préhistorique (Néolithique et âge du bronze)
Marc Vander Linden (Bournemouth University, Bournemouth)
Nomenclaturel acts published in Comptes Rendus Palevol are registered on: Zoobank.org.
