Contents

Paleontological Journal


Vol. 51, No. 5, 2017

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Paleontological Journal ISSN 0031-0301.


On the Position of Cambrian Archaeobranchians in the System of the Class Gastropoda

P. Yu. Parkhaev p. 453  abstract

On Some Rarecostites (Parkinsoniidae, Ammonoidea) from the Upper Bajocian Parkinsoni Zone of the Northern Caucasus

V. V. Mitta p. 464  abstract

Shell Microstructure of Discinisca suborbicularis sp. nov. (Brachiopoda, Lingulata) from the Upper Jurassic of Western Siberia

T. N. Smirnova, G. T. Ushatinskaya, E. A. Zhegallo and I. V. Panchenko p. 480  abstract

Some Peculiarities in the Behavioral Reactions of the Lophophore and the Trophic Structuring of the Colonies of the Post-Paleozoic Stenolaemata (Bryozoa)

L. A. Viskova p. 491  abstract

A New Cornute (Homalozoa: Echinodermata) from the Uppermost Middle Cambrian (Stage 3, Furongian) from Northern Iran: Its Systematics and Functional Morphology

S. V. Rozhnov and R. L. Parsley p. 500  abstract

Taxonomic Remarks Concerning Ostracods of the Ponto–Caspian Basin

E. I. Schornikov p. 510  abstract

New Tribe, Genus, and Species of Paedogenetic Gall Midges (Diptera, Lestremiidae: Krassiloviolini trib. nov.) from the Late Cretaceous Taimyr Amber

Z. A. Fedotova and E. E. Perkovsky p. 520  abstract

First Record of the Pipefish Nerophis zapfei Bachmayer (Syngnathidae, Gasterosteiformes) from the Middle Miocene of Northern Moldova

Ya. A. Popov p. 533  abstract

New Data on the Morphology of the Snake Mackerel Abadzekhia tarletskovi Bannikov (Perciformes, Gempylidae) from the Lower Oligocene of the Northern Caucasus

A. F. Bannikov p. 542  abstract

New Finds of Hesperornithids in the European Russia, with Comments on the Systematics of Eurasian Hesperornithidae

N. V. Zelenkov, A. V. Panteleyev and A. A. Yarkov p. 547  abstract

First Record of Chadronoxylon Fossil Wood (Angiospermae, Dicotyledones) from Russia

M. A. Afonin p. 556  abstract

Rhodopsin: Evolution and Comparative Physiology

M. A. Ostrovsky p. 562  abstract

Questions of Nomenclature

A New Replacement Name for Janischewskina compressa Grozdilova et Lebedeva, 1978 (Foraminifera)

T. I. Stepanova and N. B. Gibshman p. 573  abstract

Davidonia nom. nov., a New Substitute Name for a Cambrian Gastropod Genus

P. Yu. Parkhaev p. 574  abstract