Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments, James Ross Basin, Antarctica: introduction, J E Francis, J A Crame and D Pirrie • Mid-Cretaceous stratigraphy of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica, J A Crame, D Pirrie and J B Riding • Marine volcaniclastics of the Hidden Lake Formation (Coniacian) of James Ross Island, Antarctica: an enigmatic element in the history of the back-arc basin, A G Whitham, J R Ineson and D Pirrie • Palaeoclimate analysis of the Late Cretaceous angiosperm leaf floras, James Ross Island, Antarctica, P A Hayes, J E Francis, D J Cantrill and J A Crame • Cretaceous and Cenozoic vegetation of Antarctica integrating the fossil wood record, I Poole and D J Cantrill • Late Cretaceous Antarctic fish diversity, J Kriwet, J M Lirio, H J Nuñez, E Puceat and C Lécuyer • Biostratigraphy of the Mosasauridae (Reptilia) from the Cretaceous of Antarctica, J E Martin • Palaeobiological significance of high-latitude Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica, J E Martin and J A Crame • Eustatically controlled sedimentation recorded by Eocene strata of James Ross Basin, Antarctica, S A Marenssi • First Gondwanatherian mammal from Antarctica, F J Goin, M A Reguero, R Pascual, W Von Koenigswald, M O Woodburne, J A Case, S A Marenssi, C Vieytes and S F Vizcaíno • Late Eocene penguins from West Antarctica: systematics and biostratigraphy, C P Tambussi, C I Acosta Hospitaleche, M A Reguero and S A Marenssi • A new 'South American ungulate' (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Eocene of the Antarctic Peninsula, M Bond, M A Reguero, S F Vizcaíno and S A Marenssi • The late Middle Eocene terrestrial vertebrate fauna from Seymour Island: the tails of the Eocene Patagonian size distribution, J A Case • Distribution, lithofacies and environmental context of Neogene glacial sequences on James Ross and Vega Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, M J Hambrey and J L Smellie