1. Editorial note

   EditorialNotes 11 October 2009 Pages: 477 - 477

2. On the dynamics of the formation of the niche space during the exploration of land by vertebrates

   • A. G. Sennikov

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 478 - 482

3. Evolution of Devonian biodiversity of radiolarians with two porous spheres and one main spine

   • M. S. Afanasieva
   • E. O. Amon

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 483 - 498

4. Evolution of the taxonomic diversity of Mongolian Ordovician-Silurian corals

   • L. M. Ulitina
   • O. B. Bondarenko
   • Ch. Minjin

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 499 - 505

5. Early cretaceous gastropods of the Middle-Lower Volga river region from P.A. Gerasimov’s collection

   • M. A. Golovinova
   • A. V. Guzhov

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 506 - 513

6. Ecological structure of Paleozoic ammonoids

   • T. B. Leonova

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 514 - 518

7. Ecological structure and stage of ecogenesis of Paleozoic ammonoids in the Uralian paleobasin

   • M. S. Boiko
   • V. A. Konovalova

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 519 - 526

8. The evolution of the heteromorph and monomorph early cretaceous ammonites of the suborder Ancyloceratina Wiedmann

   • I. A. Mikhailova
   • E. Yu. Baraboshkin

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 527 - 536

9. Astogeny and taxonomic position of the Middle Carboniferous bryozoans Rhombopora aleksandrae (Schulga-Nesterenko)

   • R. V. Gorjunova

   OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 537 - 542

10. New data on the colonial morphology of the Jurassic bryozoans of the class Stenolaemata

    • L. A. Viskova

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 543 - 549

11. New genera Barskovella and Bizignathus (Conodonts) from the Famennian of southern Kazakhstan

    • Yu. A. Gatovsky

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 550 - 557

12. New data on late Devonian bothriolepidid Placoderms (Pisces, Antiarchi) from Tuva

    • S. V. Moloshnikov

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 558 - 568

13. On early Sarmatian fishes from the Eastern Paratethys

    • A. F. Bannikov

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 569 - 573

14. Equus (Hemionus) nalaikhaensis from the Pleistocene of Mongolia, the earliest kulan of Central Asia

    • T. V. Kuznetsova
    • V. I. Zhegallo

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 574 - 583

15. A new fossil wood (Lyginopteridophyta?) from the Lower Carboniferous of the Arkhangelsk Region

    • O. A. Orlova

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 584 - 588

16. Paleontological Journal in figures: 50th anniversary

    • A. S. Alekseev
    • M. A. Loginov

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 589 - 593

17. Section of paleontology of the Moscow Society of Nature Explorers in 2008

    • O. V. Amitrov

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2009 Pages: 594 - 597