Published from 1950 to 2004, Postilla short papers are based on original scientific research by the Yale Peabody Museum’s curatorial divisions, staff and research associates, and their colleagues, in the natural science disciplines represented by the collections of the Yale Peabody Museum’s curatorial divisions.

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Postilla 151. The form and functions of the avicularia of Bugula (Phylum Ectoprocta)
Karl W. Kaufmann, 1971.

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Postilla 152. Functional significance of mandibular translation in vertebrate jaw mechanics
Philip D. Gingerich, 1971.

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Postilla 153. On the systematic position of Macelognathus vagans
John H. Ostrom, 1971.

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Postilla 154. Leposoma percarinatum, a unisexual species related to L. guianense; and Leposoma ioanna, a new species from Pacific coastal Colombia (Sauria, Teiidae)
Thomas Uzzell and John C. Barry, 1971.

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Postilla 155. A new tillodont from the Eocene Upper Willwood formation of Wyoming
Kenneth D. Rose, 1972.

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Postilla 156. Some shallow water ahermatypic corals from Bermuda
John W. Wells, 1972.

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Postilla 157. New evidence on the evolution of the paired fins of Rhipidistia and the origin of the tetrapod limb, with description of a new genus of Osteolepidae
Keith Stewart Thomson, 1972.

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Postilla 158. Dentition of the Early Eocene primates Niptomomys and Absarokius
Thomas M. Bown and Philip D. Gingerich, 1972.

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Postilla 159. A revision of lizards of the genus Prionodactylus, with a new genus for P. leucostictus and notes on the genus Euspondylus (Sauria, Teiidae)
Thomas Uzzell, 1973.

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Postilla 160. Beecher's Trilobite Bed revisited: Ecology of an Ordovician deepwater fauna
John L. Cisne, 1973.

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Postilla 161. The systematics of some Jamaican excavating sponges (Porifera)
Rosemary K. Pang, 1973.

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Postilla 162. Description of immature stages of Philolithus densicollis and Stenomorpha puncticollis with notes on their biology (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Tentyriinae)
Kirby W. Brown, 1973.

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Postilla 163. A new Oligocene hyrax from the Jebel el Qatrani formation, Fayum, Egypt
Grant E. Meyer, 1973.

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Postilla 164. Exosphaeroma crenulatum (Richardson), a junior synonym of Dynamenella perforata (Moore) (Crustacea: Isopoda)
Peter W. Glynn, 1974.

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Postilla 165. The pectoral girdle and forelimb function of Deinonychus (Reptilia: Saurischia): A correction
John H. Ostrom, 1974.

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Postilla 166. Parapithecus grangeri (Parapithecidae, Old World higher primates): New species from the Oligocene of Egypt and the initial differentiation of Ceropithecoidea
Elwyn L. Simons, 1974.

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Postilla 167. A Pacific tabulate sponge, living representative of a new order of sclerosponges
Willard D. Hartman and Thomas F. Goreau, 1975.

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Postilla 168. A new species of Apterodon (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the Upper Eocene Qasr el-Sagha Formation of Egypt
Elwyn L. Simons and Philip D. Gingerich, 1976.

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Postilla 169. Prosauropod dinosaurs (Reptilia: Saurischia) of North America
Peter Malcolm Galton, 1976.

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Postilla 170. Specialized scales in the cloacal region of two Paleozoic fishes (Crossopterygii)
Keith S. Thomson, Jerome S. Rackoff, and Joan S. Darling, 1976.

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Postilla 171. Taxonomy and ecology of the Philobryidae and Limopsidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda)
Michael J.S. Tevesz, 1977.

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Postilla 172. An unusual new mammal from the Early Eocene of Wyoming
Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, and Elwyn L. Simons, 1977.

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Postilla 173. Osteology of the American Plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides
David W. Frame, Thomas J. Andrews, and Charles F. Cole, 1978.

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Postilla 174. Biogenic structures of black shale paleoenvironments
Charles W. Byers, 1979.

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Postilla 175. Diversification and biogeography of the one-toed horses Onohippidium and Hippidion
Bruce J. MacFadden and Morris F. Skinner, 1979.

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Postilla 176. A new aquatic Eosuchian from the Newark Supergroup (Late Triassic) of North Carolina and Virginia
Paul Eric Olsen, 1979.

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Postilla 177. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species
J. David Archibald and J. Howard Hutchison, 1979.

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Postilla 178. A revision of the genus Metaxaglaea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Cuculliinae) with descriptions of two new species
Dale F. Schweitzer, 1979.

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Postilla 179. Miocene sediments and faunas of Pakistan
David R. Pilbeam, A. K. Behrensmeyer, John C. Barry, and S. M. Ibrahim Shah, 1979.

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Postilla 180. Devonian vertebrates from Australia
Emily B. Giffin, 1980.

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Postilla 181. Miocene hominoids from Pakistan
David R. Pilbeam, Michael D. Rose, Catherine Badgley, and Bonnie Lipschutz, 1980.

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Postilla 182. Taxonomic status of Eohyus Marsh, 1894
Spencer G. Lucas, 1980.

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Postilla 183. A geologic and biostratigraphic framework for Miocene sediments near Khaur Village, northern Pakistan
John C. Barry, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Marc Monaghan, 1980.

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Postilla 184. A new genus and species of Sphaeromatidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) with experiments and observations on its reproductive biology, interspecific interactions and color polymorphisms
Leo W. Buss and Ernest W. Iverson, 1981.

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Postilla 185. A new species of Conoryctella (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and a revision of the genus
Robert M. Schoch and Spencer G. Lucas, 1981.

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Postilla 186. An Early Triassic hybodont shark from Northern Madagascar
Keith Stewart Thomson, 1982.

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Postilla 187. The relationships of the Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) and the alleged slowdown in the rate of macromolecular evolution in birds
Charles G. Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist, 1982.

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Postilla 188. A new species of Isectolophus (Mammalia, Tapiroidea) from the middle Eocene of Wyoming
Robert Milton Schoch, 1983.

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Postilla 189. Osteology and functional morphology of Dimorphodon macronyx (Buckland) (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchoidea) based on new material in the Yale Peabody Museum
Kevin Padian, 1983.

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Postilla 190. Tanyops undans Marsh, 1894: A junior subjective synonym of Protapirus obliquidens Wortman and Earle, 1893 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)
Robert Milton Schoch, 1983.

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Postilla 191. A new subfamily, Conacodontinae, and new species, Conacodon kohlbergeri, of the Periptychidae (Condylarthra, Mammalia)
J. David Archibald, Robert Milton Schoch, and J. Keith Rigby Jr., 1983.

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Postilla 192. Revision of Metacheiromys Wortman, 1903 and a review of the Palaeanodonta
Robert Milton Schoch, 1984.

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Postilla 193. Two unusual specimens of Helaletes in the Yale Peabody Museum collections, and some comments on the ancestry of the Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia)
Robert Milton Schoch, 1984.

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Postilla 194. Notes on the type specimens Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus (Pterosauria, Pteranodontidae) in the Yale Peabody Museum Collections
Robert Milton Schoch, 1984.

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Postilla 195. The type specimens of Tapivarus validus and Tapivarus rarus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), with a review of the genus, and a new report of Miotapirus (Miotapirus marslandensis Schoch and Prins, new species) from Nebraska
Robert Milton Schoch, 1984.

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Postilla 196. Preliminary description of a new late Paleocene land-mammal fauna from South Carolina, U.S.A.
Robert Milton Schoch, 1985.

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Postilla 197. A dyrosaurid crocodile (Crocodylia: Mesocuchia) from the Paleocene of Pakistan
Glenn W. Storrs, 1986.

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Postilla 198. Relationships of the silver rice rat Oryzomys argentatus (Rodentia: Muridae)
Numi C. Goodyear and James D. Lazell Jr., 1986.

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Postilla 199. Ultrastructure of metamorphosis in Hydractinia echinata
Virginia M. Weis and Leo W. Buss, 1987.

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Postilla 200. Divergence of the single-copy DNA sequences of the Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) and Clark’s Grebe (A. clarkii), as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization
Jon E. Ahlquist, Anthony H. Bledsoe, John T. Ratti, and Charles G. Sibley, 1987.