This collection of conference papers presents information on the molecular genetics, biomineralization, growth and ecology of extant brachiopod stocks (extrapolated back to the Cambrian), and the shell microstructure, taphonomy, paleogeography, evolution, and taxonomy of fossil brachiopods.

Preface
Introduction: Amended excerpts from the opening address	p. 1
The genus Pseudogibbirhynchia (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellacea) from the Toarcian of Portugal	p. 7
Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan)	p. 13
Paleobiogeography of Australian Permian brachiopod faunas	p. 19
Bashkirian and Moscovian brachiopod assemblages from Northwestern Serbia	p. 25
The 'Afro-South American Realm' and Silurian 'Clarkeia Fauna'	p. 29
Silurian brachiopod biostratigraphy, NE Timan-N Urals, Russia	p. 35
Paleobiogeographic - paleoenvironmental significance of the Eocene brachiopod fauna, Seymour Island, Antarctica	p. 41
The classification of the brachiopod order Strophomenida	p. 47
Revision and review of the order Pentamerida	p. 53
Genetic models of Early Devonian brachiopod pavements, Longmenshan, Sichuan, China	p. 59
Competence, pre- and post-settlement choices of articulate brachiopod larvae	p. 65
Lower Paleozoic brachiopod communities	p. 69
Brachiopod molecular phylogeny	p. 73
Evolution of the spire-bearing brachiopods (Ordovician-Jurassic)	p. 81
On the classification of the order Athyridida	p. 89
Remarks on the classification of punctate spiriferids	p. 91
Taphonomy of some Cretaceous and Recent brachiopods	p. 95
Brachiopod paleoecology and paleobiogeographical affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Southeastern Romania	p. 103
Permian brachiopod paleobiogeography of South America	p. 107
The sequence of Permian brachiopod assemblages in South China	p. 111
Early Paleozoic radiation and classification of organo-phosphatic brachiopods	p. 117
Ordovician (Llanvirn-Ashgill) rhynchonellid brachiopod biogeography	p. 123
Kaninospiriferinae, a new subfamily of the Spiriferidae (Brachiopoda)	p. 133
Late Eifelian-Early Givetian (Middle Devonian) brachiopod paleobiogeography of Eastern and Central North America	p. 135
Taphonomic megabias in the fossil record of lingulide brachiopods	p. 145
Intracrystalline proteins from Terebratulina retusa (Linnaeus) and their role in biomineralisation	p. 151
The problem of comparability in taxonomic ranks for brachiopod systematics	p. 159
Functional and taphonomic implications of Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod valve morphology	p. 161
Early brachiopod associates: Epibionts on Middle Ordovician brachiopods	p. 169
Functional morphology - Paleoecology of pygopid brachiopods from the Western Carpathian Mesozoic	p. 175
Principal trends in Early athyrid evolution	p. 179
Late Cretaceous rhynchonellid assemblages of North Bulgaria	p. 185
Relationship between siliciclastics/carbonates and Silurian brachiopod community distribution in Lithuania	p. 191
Ordovician brachiopod biogeography in the lapetus suture zone of Ireland: Provincial dynamics in a changing ocean	p. 197
Organic contents and elemental composition of brachiopod shell and mantle tissues	p. 203
Radiation of the earliest calcareous brachiopods	p. 209
Facies control of Jurassic brachiopods: Examples from Central Asia	p. 215
Hydrodynamic stability of empty shells of extant terebratulids and rhynchonellids: Implications for life habit of extinct biconvex taxa	p. 221
Notes on living brachiopod ecology in a submarine cave off the Campania coast, Italy	p. 227
Evolution of Devonian plicathyridine brachiopods, Northern Eurasia	p. 233
Peregrinella (Brachiopoda; Rhynchonellida) from the Early Cretaceous, Wrangellia Terrane, Alaska	p. 239
Early Devonian brachiopods from the Zeravshan Mountain Range, Southern Tyan-Shan, Central Asia	p. 243
Classification of Paleozoic rhynchonellid brachiopods	p. 249
Shell ultrastructure of Mesozoic craniid brachiopods from the Ukraine	p. 261
Notes on the taxonomy of Mesozoic Rhynchonellida	p. 265
Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods	p. 269
Brachiopod paleozoogeography through the Cambrian	p. 275
No second chances? New perspectives on biotic interactions in post-Paleozoic brachiopod history	p. 281
Degraded intracrystalline proteins and amino acids from fossil brachiopods and considerations for amino acid taxonomy	p. 289
Taxonomic importance of body-mantle relationships in the Brachiopoda	p. 299
Reef-dwelling brachiopods from the Late Permian of the central Yangtze River area, China	p. 305
Permian brachiopods from the Tsunemori Formation, SW Japan, and their paleobiogeographic implication	p. 313
Frasnian atrypoid brachiopods from South Timan	p. 317
Frasnian - Famennian brachiopod faunal extinction dynamics: An example from southern Poland	p. 319
A to Z world list of brachiopod genera-subgenera to 1995	p. 325
Abstracts presented at the Third International Brachiopod Congress, September 2-5, 1995	p. 361
Author index	p. 373
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