Section One: PALSTAT user's manual. Installation. PALSTAT and PALFILE. TAXASTAT. ASSNSTAT. References. Index. Section Two: PALSTAT: Case studies. Part One: Taxonomic case studies. Case study 1: The Permian brachiopod Dielasma from the North of England. Case study 2: Evolution of a Cretaceous irregular echinoid? Case study 3: Carboniferous nonmarine bivalves - a taxonomic study. Case study 4: Morphometrics of Ordovician triobites. Case study 5: Heterochrony in a fossil rhynchosaur reptile. Part Two: Palaeoecolgoical case studies. Case study 6: Two shelly assemblages from the Upper Ordovician of the Girvan District. Case study 7: Jurassic fossil associations from England and Normandy. Case study 8: Dynamic Llanvirn shelly faunas from Wales - a palaeoecological study. Case study 9: Lower Silurian marine communities from Britain. Case study 10: Biogeography of late Ordovician brachiopods. Acknowledgements. References. Index.