List of Publications

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József Pálfy
Last updated: July 2011

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Keyword labels: J = Jurassic, Tr = Triassic, K = Cretaceous
Amm = ammonoids; Br = brachiopods; Biv = bivalves
U-Pb = U-Pb dating; ts = time scale; ex = mass extinction

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Velledits, F., Péró, C., Blau, J., Senowbari-Daryan, B., Kovács, S., Piros, O., Pocsai, T., Szügyi-Simon, H., Dumitrică, P., & Pálfy, J. 2011. The oldest Triassic platform margin reef from the Alpine–Carpathian region (Aggtelek, NE Hungary): Platform evolution, reefal biota and biostratigraphic framework. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 117(2): 221–268. PDF version

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Ősi, A., Pálfy, J., Makádi, L., Szentesi, Z., Gulyás, P., Rabi, M., Botfalvai, G., & Hips, K. 2011. Early Jurassic (Hettangian) dinosaur tracksites from the Mecsek Mountains, Hungary. Ichnos 18:79–94. PDF version

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Price, G. D., I. Főzy, Janssen, N. M. M. & Pálfy, J. 2011. Late Valanginian-Barremian (Early Cretaceous) palaeotemperatures inferred from belemnite stable isotope and Mg/Ca ratios from Bersek Quarry (Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 305(1–4): 1–9. PDF version

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Főzy, I., Janssen, N. M. M., Price, G. D., Knauer, J. & Pálfy, J. 2010. Integrated isotope and biostratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous section from the Bakony Mountains (Transdanubian Range, Hungary): A new Tethyan record of the Weissert event. Cretaceous Research 31(6): 525–545. PDF version

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Mundil, R., Pálfy, J., Renne, P.R. & Brack, P. 2010. The Triassic time scale: A review of geochronological constraints. , In: LUCAS, S.G. (ed.): The Triassic Timescale. Geological Society of London, Special Publication. 334: 41–60. PDF version

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Haas, J., Götz, A. E. & Pálfy, J. 2010. Late Triassic to Early Jurassic palaeogeography and eustatic history in the NW Tethyan realm: New insights from sedimentary and organic facies of the Csovar Basin (Hungary). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 291(3-4): 456–468. PDF version

 

Pálfy, J. 2009. Review of invertebrate and vertebrate paleontological types in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Annales Historico-Naturale Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 101: 5–22. PDF version

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Götz, A., Ruckwied, K., Pálfy, J. & Haas, J. 2009. Palynological evidence of synchronous changes within the terrestrial and marine realm at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary (Csővár section, Hungary). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156: 401–409. PDF version

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Ruckwied, K., Götz, A., Pálfy, J. & Török, Á. 2008. Palynology of a terrestrial coal-bearing series across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary (Mecsek Mts., Hungary). Central European Geology. 51(1): 1-15. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2008. The Triassic–Jurassic boundary. In: Pienkowski, G., Schudack, M. E. (Co-Ordinators), Bosák, P., Enay, R., Feldman-Olszewska, A., Golonka, J., Gutowski, J., Herngreen, G. F. W., Jordan, P., Krobicki, M., Lathuiliere, B., Leinfelder, R. R., Michalik, J., Mönnig, E., Noe-Nygaard, N., Pálfy, J., Pint, A., Rasser, M. W., Reisdorf, A. G., Schmid, D. U., Schweigert, G., Surlyk, F., Wetzel, A. & Wong, T. E.: Jurassic. In: McCann, T. (ed.): The Geology of Central Europe. Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Geological Society of London. 826-827. PDF version

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Longridge, L. M., Pálfy, J., Smith, P. L. & Tipper, H. W. 2008. Middle and late Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonites from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Revue de Paléobiologie, 27(1): 191-248. PDF version

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Pálfy 2008. The quest for refined calibration of the Jurassic time-scale. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 119(1): 85-95. PDF version

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Longridge, L.M., Smith, P.L., Pálfy, J. & Tipper, H.W. 2008. Three new species of the Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonite Sunrisites from British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 82(1): 128–139. PDF version

 

Pálfy, J. 2007. Applications of quantitative biostratigraphy in chronostratigraphy and time scale construction. Stratigraphy, 4(2-3): 195-199. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Mundil, R., Renne, P.R., Bernor, R.L., Kordos, L. & Gasparik, M. 2007. U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Miocene fossil track site at Ipolytarnóc (Hungary) and its implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 258: 160-174. PDF version

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Yin, J., Smith, P. L., Pálfy, J. & Enay, R. 2007. Ammonoids and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Himalayas of southern Tibet. Palaeontology, 50 (3): 711-737. PDF version

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Tomas, R. & Pálfy, J. 2007. Revision of Early Jurassic ammonoid types from the Perşani Mts. (East Carpathians, Romania). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 243 (2): 231-254. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Demény, A., Haas, J., Carter, E.S., Görög, Á., Halász, D., Oravecz-Scheffer, A., Hetényi, M., Márton, E., Orchard, M.J., Ozsvárt, P., Vető, I. & Zajzon, N. 2007. Triassic/Jurassic boundary events inferred from integrated stratigraphy of the Csővár section, Hungary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244(1-4): 11-33. PDF version

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Hesselbo, S.P., McRoberts, C.A. & Pálfy, J. 2007. Triassic–Jurassic boundary events: Problems, progress, possibilities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244(1-4): 1-10. PDF version

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Haas, J., Demény, A., Hips, K., Zajzon, N., Weiszburg, T.G., Sudar, M. & Pálfy, J. 2007. Biotic and environmental changes in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval recorded on a western Tethyan ramp in the Bükk Mountains, Hungary. Global and Planetary Change 55(1-3): 136-154. PDF version

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Barbacka, M., Pálfy, J. & Smith, P.L. 2006. Hettangian (Early Jurassic) plant fossils from Puale Bay (Peninsular terrane, Alaska). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142(1-2): 33-46. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2006. A triász végi és a kora jura tömeges kihalás. Általános Földtani Szemle Könyvtára 1, 76 pp.  [The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinctions] (General Geological Review Monographs) (In Hungarian). PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2005. Correlated environmental change and extinction at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. In: Hanzo, M. (ed.), The Hettangian in Hettange; from Science to Geological Heritage, Univ. Henri Poincaré, Nancy, pp. 5-8. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2004. Did the Puchezh-Katunki impact trigger an extinction? In: Dypvik, H., Burchell, M.J., and Claeys, P (eds.): Submarine craters and ejecta-crater correlation. Springer Verlag, Impact Studies Series, pp. 135-148. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2003. The Pelsonian brachiopod fauna of the Balaton Highland. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, 55: 139-158. PDF version

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Vörös, A., Budai, T., Haas, J., Kovács, S., Kozur, H., and Pálfy, J. 2003. GSSP (Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point) proposal for the base of Ladinian (Triassic): A proposal for the GSSP at the base of the Reitzi Zone (sensu stricto) at Bed 105 in the Felsőörs section, Balaton Highland, Hungary. Albertiana, 28: 35-47. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2003. The end-Triassic mass extinction. In: Yearbook of Science and Technology 2003. McGraw Hill, New York. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Parrish, R.R., David, K. & Vörös, A. 2003. Middle Triassic integrated U-Pb geochronology and ammonoid biochronology from the Balaton Highland (Hungary). Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160 (2): 271-284. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2003. Volcanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province as a potential driving force in the end-Triassic mass extinction. In: W.E. Hames, J.G. McHone, P. Renne, and C. Ruppel (eds.): The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Insights from fragments of Pangea. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series Volume 136, pp. 255-267. PDF version

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Vörös, A. & Pálfy, J. 2002. New data to the stratigraphy of the Pelsonian Substage at Köveskál (Middle Triassic, Balaton Highland, Hungary). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica, 20: 53-60. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Mortensen, J.K. & Smith, P.L. 2002. Dating the end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinctions, correlative large igneous provinces, and isotopic events. In: C. Koeberl and K. MacLeod (eds.): Catastrophic events and mass extinctions: Impacts and beyond. Geological Society of America Special Paper 356: 523-532.  PDF version

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 Pálfy, J., Demény, A., Haas, J., Hetényi, M., Orchard, M.J. & Vető, I. 2001. Carbon isotope anomaly and other geochemical changes at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary from a marine section in Hungary. Geology, 29: 1047-1050. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. & Smith, P.L. 2000. Synchrony between Early Jurassic extinction, oceanic anoxic event, and the Karoo–Ferrar flood basalt volcanism. Geology, 28 (8): 747-750. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2000.Dating problems and methods in the Middle Ages of Earth history. In Gervers, M. (ed.) Dating Undated Medieval Charters. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, pp. 221-233. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Mortensen, J.K. & Smith, P.L. 2000. A U–Pb and 40Ar–39Ar time scale for the Jurassic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37 (6): 923-944. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Mortensen, J.K., Smith, P.L., Friedman, R.M., McNicoll, V. & Villeneuve, M. 2000. New U–Pb zircon ages integrated with ammonite biochronology from the Jurassic of the Canadian Cordillera. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37 (4). 549-567. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Mortensen, J.K., Carter, E.S., Smith, P.L., Friedman, R.M. & Tipper, H.W. 2000. Timing the end-Triassic mass extinction: First on land, then in the sea? Geology, 28 (1): 39-42. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Smith, P.L. & Mortensen, J.K. 2000. A revised numeric time scale for the Jurassic. In R.L. Hall and P.L. Smith (eds): Advances in Jurassic Research 2000, TransTech, Zürich, pp. 181-182.

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Pálfy, J. & Dosztály, L. 2000. A new marine Triassic–Jurassic boundary section in Hungary: preliminary results. In R.L. Hall and P.L. Smith (eds): Advances in Jurassic Research 2000, TransTech, Zürich, pp. 173-179. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Smith, P.L., Mortensen, J.K. & Friedman, R.M. 1999. Integrated ammonite biochronology and U-Pb geochronology from a Lower Jurassic section in Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111 (10): 1537-1549. PDF version

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Vörös, A., Budai, T., Lelkes, Gy., Monostori, M. & Pálfy, J. 1997. Middle Triassic basin evolution of the Balaton Highland (Hungary) based on sedimentological and paleontological studies. Földtani Közlöny (Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society) 127 (1-2): 145-177.

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Pálfy, J. & Vörös, A. 1998. Quantitative ammonoid biochronological assessment of the Anisian–Ladinian (Middle Triassic) stage boundary proposals. Albertiana, 21: 19-26. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Parrish, R.R. & Smith, P.L. 1997. A U-Pb age from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) and its use for time scale calibration through error analysis of biochronologic dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 146 (3-4): 659-675. PDF version

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Aberhan, M. & Pálfy, J. 1996. A low-oxygen tolerant East Pacific flat clam (Posidonotis semiplicata) from the Lower Jurassic of the Canadian Cordillera. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33 (7): 993-1006. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1995. Development of the Jurassic geochronologic scale. In: Geczy Jubilee Volume. Hantkeniana, 1: 13-25. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. & Hart, C.J.R. 1995. Biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse map area (105D), southern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1994, Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pp. 73-86. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. & Schmidt, K.L. 1994. Biostratigraphic and facies studies of the Telkwa Formation (Lower Jurassic), Smithers map area, British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part E, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 94-1E, pp. 29-38. PDF version

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Jakobs, G.K. & Pálfy, J. 1994. Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic biostratigraphic and facies studies in the Iskut River map area, northwestern British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part E, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 94-1E, pp. 17-28. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Smith, P.L. & Tipper, H.W. 1994. Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) ammonoid biostratigraphy of the Queen Charlotte Islands, western Canada. Géobios, Mémoire Spécial, 17: 385-393. PDF version

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Smith, P.L., Beyers, J.M., Carter, E.S., Jakobs, G.K., Pálfy, J., Pessagno, E. & Tipper, H.W. 1994. North America, Lower Jurassic. In: G.E.G. Westermann and A.C. Riccardi (eds.): Jurassic taxa ranges and correlation charts for the Circum Pacific. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 31 (1): 33-70. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1994. Paleoecological, biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic fingerprints of brachiopod faunas: case studies from the Anisian of Hungary. In: J. Guex and A. Baud (eds.): Recent Developments on Triassic Stratigraphy. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne): 22: 115-120. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. & Török, A. 1992. Comparison of Alpine and Germano-type Middle Triassic brachiopod faunas from Hungary, with remarks on Coenothyris vulgaris (Schlotheim 1820). Annales Universitatis Scientiarium Budapestini, Sectio Geologica, 29: 303-323. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1992. Anizuszi (középső triász) brachiopoda paleobiogeográfia az alp-kárpáti térségben. (Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopod paleobiogeography in the Alpine-Carpathian region.) Őslénytani Viták (Discussiones Palaeontologicae), 38: 59-69. [In Hungarian with English abstract.] PDF version

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Pálfy, J., Vörös, A. & Dulai, A. 1992. The Triassic of the Balaton area. In: Vörös, A. and Pálfy, J. (eds.) 1992. Program, Abstracts, and Field Guide. Regional Field Symposium on Mesozoic Brachiopods, Vörösberény, Hungary, 1992. pp. 44-57.

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Pálfy, J. 1991. Paleoecological significance of Anisian (Middle Triassic) brachiopod assemblages from the Balaton Highland (Hungary). In: D.I. MacKinnon, D.E. Lee, and J.D. Campbell (eds.): Brachiopods through Time. Balkeema, Rotterdam, pp. 241-246. PDF version

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Smith, P.L., Tipper, H.W. & Pálfy, J. 1990. Lower Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Fannin and Ghost Creek formations, Kunga Island, British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part F, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 90-1F, pp. 51-54. PDF version

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Pálfy, J., McFarlane, R.B., Smith, P.L. & Tipper, H.W. 1990. Potential for ammonite biostratigraphy of the Sinemurian part of the Sandilands Formation, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. In: Current Research, Part F, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 90-1F, pp. 47-50. PDF version

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Vörös, A. & Pálfy, J. 1989. The Anisian/Ladinian boundary in the Vászoly section (Balaton Highland, Hungary). Fragmenta Mineralogica et Palaeontologica, 14: 17-27. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1988. Middle Triassic rhynchonellids from the Balaton Highland (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary). Annales Historico-Naturale Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 80: 25-46. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1986. Balaton-felvidéki középső-triász brachiopoda faunák vizsgálata (Investigations on Middle Triassic brachiopod faunas from the Balaton Highland (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary)). Őslénytani Viták (Discussiones Palaeontologicae), 33: 3-52. [In Hungarian with English abstract.] PDF version

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

 

Pálfy, J., Dulai, A., Gasparik, M., Ozsvárt, P.,  Pazonyi, P. & Szives, O. 2008. Catalogue of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Paleontological Type Specimens of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, 209 p. PDF version

 

Pálfy, J. & Pazonyi, P. (eds.) 2007. Őslénytani kirándulások Magyarországon és Erdélyben [Paleontological excursions in Hungary and Transylvania].  Hantken Press, Budapest, 260 pp. (In Hungarian) Order from the Publisher

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Pálfy, J. 2006. A triász végi és a kora jura tömeges kihalás. Általános Földtani Szemle Könyvtára 1, 76 pp.  [The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinctions] (General Geological Review Monographs) (In Hungarian). PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 2005. Katastrophen der Erdgeschichte: globales Artensterben? Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 245 p. Order from the Publisher

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Pálfy, J. 2000. Kihaltak és túlélők (Félmilliárd év nagy fajpusztulásai) [Victims and Survivors (Mass Extinctions in the Past Half Billion Years)]. Vince Books, Budapest, 222 p. [In Hungarian]

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Pálfy, J. & Vörös, A. (eds.) 1993. Mesozoic Brachiopods of Alpine Europe. Hungarian Geological Society, Budapest, 187 p.

UNPUBLISHED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

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Pálfy, J. 2003. A triász végi és a kora jura tömeges kihalás [The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinctions]. Doctor of Science dissertation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 112 p. [In Hungarian]

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Pálfy, J. 1997. Calibration of the Jurassic time scale. PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, xiii+180 p. PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1991. Uppermost Hettangian to lowermost Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) biostratigraphy and ammonoid fauna of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. MSc Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, xii+243 p.  PDF version

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Pálfy, J. 1986. Balaton-felvidéki középső-triász brachiopoda faunák vizsgálata. [Investigations on Middle Triassic brachiopod faunas from the Balaton Highland]. Diploma thesis, Eötvös University, Budapest, 96 p. [In Hungarian]

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