The glossary is intended to help with common (and not so common) palaeontological terms that may be encountered within scientific publications.
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- A
- Abaxial
- Ancestral
- Adaxial
- Aerial
- Aerobic
- Aerobes
- Anaerobes
- Anaerobic
- Analogous
- Apoxogenesis
- Arborescent
- Artifact
- Assemblage Zone
- Authigenic Cementation
- Autotroph
- Arthropods
- Arachnids
- Annelids
- Aglaspids
- Autecology
- Anomalocaridids
- Aspicular
- Amino acids
- Amoeba
- Anning, Mary (Palaeontologist)
- Amber
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Abyssal Zone
- Apex predator
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Aragonite
- Archaea
- Aromatic ring
- Archaeocyatha
- Amniotic sac
- B
- C
- Carboniferous (Period)
- Cambrian (Period)
- Cenozoic Era
- Cretaceous (Period)
- Chelicerata
- Chelicerae
- Coxosternal
- Cuticle
- Cnidarians
- Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) mass extinction
- Character
- Convergent Evolution
- Cement
- Charles Darwin
- Clade
- Catalysis
- Cyanobacteria
- Coprolite
- Cladistics
- Cartesian coordinates
- Community
- Conodonts
- Cephalopods
- Coelocanths
- Crustaceans
- Coevolution
- Cambium
- Cytokines
- Cetacea
- Chitin
- Cephalon
- Chemofossil
- Conifers
- Cephalic shield
- Chitin
- Circadian rhythms
- Cornea
- Ctenophores
- Climatic gradient
- Cephalon (head shield)
- Centrum
- Carbonate
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- Median
- Moulting
- Mesozoic Era
- Meteorite
- Morphology
- Miocene (Epoch)
- Multivariate Statistics
- Methanogenic
- Earth’s mantle
- Metabolism
- Mitosis
- Meiosis
- Molecular biology
- Microbiology
- Mineral cement
- Mutation
- Molluscs
- Microfossil
- Morphotype
- Melanosomes
- Monophyletic
- Microvilli
- Microbial mat
- Model organism
- Multicellular
- Molecular clock
- Mass spectroscopy
- Marine transgression
- N
- O
- P
- Precambrian
- Palaeogene (Period)
- Permian (Period)
- Prosoma
- Palaeozoic Era
- Pedipalps
- Paleocene (Epoch)
- Planktonic
- Prokaryotes
- Protists
- Phenetics
- Pterosaurs
- Proxy
- Physiognomy
- Photosynthesis
- Pathogens
- Papilla
- Phosphatized fossils
- Precipitation
- Pliocene (Epoch)
- Pleistocene (Epoch)
- Polymer
- Protein
- Plate tectonics
- Phylogenetics
- Phanerozoic (Eon)
- Palaeoecology
- Polychaetes
- Phylum
- PCR (Polymerase chain reaction)
- Primary Producers
- Petrographic microscope
- Palaeontological Association
- Palaeoart
- Peristaltic
- Paraphyletic
- Pectoral
- Pelvic
- Placoderms
- Polymerization
- Plesiosaurs
- Photon
- Phylogenetic bracketing
- Permineralization
- Photic zone
- Polyphyletic
- Placozoa
- Permafrost
- Priapulida
- Palaeogeography
- Phytoplankton
- Pygidium (tail shield)
- Q
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- R
- S
- Sedimentology
- Silurian (Period)
- Sauropod (dinosaur)
- Synapomorphy
- Symplesiomorphy
- Stomata
- Siphonophores
- Sub-fossil
- Skeletal debris
- Subfossil
- Supercontinent
- Stable isotopes
- Secondarily aquatic
- Stratigraphy
- Slime moulds
- Sporophyte
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Suspension feeding
- Sclerotic ring
- Snowball Earth
- Stromatolites
- Sponges
- Staurozoan
- Stromatolite
- Scanning electron microscope
- Sclerite
- Sessile
- Stereom
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z