CSJP publishes the scientific journal “Swiss Journal of Palaeontology”. The peer-reviewed journal contains freely accessible research papers in all areas of palaeontology.

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Winners Paleoprize

2006Alain Morard, University of Lausanne: Covariation patterns in ammonoids : observations, models, and open questions
2007Daniel Marty, University of Fribourg: Comparative taphonomy of human footprints left in microbial mats of tidal flats and dinosaur footprints of Late Jurassic biolaminites; a key for the interpretation of fossil vertebrate tracks
2008Nicolas Goudemand, University of Zurich: Smithian-Spathian boundary: the biggest crisis in Triassic conodont history
2009Nicolas Goudemand, University of Zurich: Paleobiology of Early Triassic conodonts: implications of newly discovered fused clusters imaged by X-ray synchrotron microtomography
2010Jérôme Chablais, University of Geneva: Upper Triassic reef biota from southwestern Japan: new data from a Panthalassan seamount
2011Madeleine Geiger, University of Zurich: Giant rodents from the northern Neotropics - taxonomic, phylogenetic and developmental aspects of their evolution within the caviomorph radiation
2012Yannick Mary, Natural History Museum Basel: Micro-dissection reveals inner structure and ontogenetic growth of Pliocene menardellids (planktonic foraminifera)
2013James Neenan, University of Zurich: Unique method of tooth replacement in Placodontia (Diapsida, Sauropterygia), with new data on the dentition of Chinese taxa
2014Lea Leuzinger, University of Fribourg: Taxonomy and biogeochemistry of a new chondrichthyan fauna from the Swiss Jura (Kimmeridgian): an unusual isotopic signature for the hybodont shark Asteracanthus
2015Amane Tajika, University of Zurich: Intraspecific variation of volumetric growth trajectories in nautilids and ammonites

2016

Bastien Mennecart, Natural History Museum Basel: How does bony labyrinth morphology help resolve the phylogeny and diversification timing of deer?

2017

Kristof Veitschegger, University of Zurich: Reconstructing life history from the fossil record – the case of Pleistocene cave bears

2018

Manuel F.G. Weinkauf, University of Geneva: Morphological disparity and ontogeny of the endemic heteromorph ammonite genus Aegocrioceras

2019Stephan Spiekman, University of Zurich: Synchrotron microtomography and bone histology of Tanystropheus reveal its cranial morphology and the identification of a separate, small-sized species
2020Eva C. Herbst, University of Zurich: Was the early tetrapod Eryops capable of a salamander-like walk? Developing new methods to test paleontological hypotheses about posture and gait
2021

Serjoscha W. Evers, University of Fribourg: Ecomorphology and evolution of the vestibular organ of turtles

2022Alexander Pohle, University of Zurich: Fossil cephalopod phylogenetics: recent advances, remaining challenges and future perspectives
2023

Lorenzo Lustri, University of Lausanne: An exceptionally preserved ontogenetic series of horseshoe crabs from the Early Ordovician and the origin ofchelicerates

Gregor Mathes, University of Zürich: Unraveling the role of temperature in Neoselachian extinction events

2024Olivia Plateau, University of Fribourg: Developmental underpinnings of the evolutionary divergence in the pterygoid-palatine complex morphology between Palaeognathae and Neognathae (Aves)
2025Kristina Kocáková, University of Zurich: Does spatial range determine the longevity of shark species?