Omo-Turkana Basin hominins + Progonomys mixtus + Athenar + Oneirosaurus + more free pdfs

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler
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Abstracts books not yet mentioned:

XL Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP) 2025 Abstracts Book

https://sepaleontologia.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Jornadas_Aracena.pdf

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Fifth Palaeontological Virtual Congress 2025 Abstracts Book

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_lWQZ5bENbPClCHkA2p4dhz7aeLHxZkX/view

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Some recent or not yet mentioned vertpaleo and evolution articles with free pdfs:

François Marchal, Denné Reed & Sandrine Prat (2025)
The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin
Journal of Human Evolution 209: 103731
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103731
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000843

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Lev V. Eppelbaum and Youri I. Katz (2025)
Combined Geophysical–Geodynamic Analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Dispersal Through the Levantine Corridor
Applied Sciences 15(21): 11554
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app152111554
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/21/11554

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Francesco d’Errico, Guilhem Mauran, Africa Pitarch Martí, Ana Majkić & Vadim Stepanchuk (2025)
Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea
Science Advances 11(44): eadx4722
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adx4722
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4722

Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adx4722

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Emily M Pigott, Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva, Elke Zeller, Laura G van der Sluis, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Maddalena Gianni, Emese Végh, Thorsten Uthmeier, Victor Chabai, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Petra G. Šimková, Jana N. Voglmayr, Gerhard W. Weber, Ron Pinhasi, Axel Timmermann, Martin Kuhlwilm, Katerina Douka, and Thomas Higham (2025)
A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (45) e2518974122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518974122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518974122

Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2518974122

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Larissa M. Straffon & Claudio Tennie (2025)
Art Beyond Cognition: Reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission
Evolutionary Human Sciences (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10023
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/art-beyond-cognition-reframing-neanderthal-art-through-social-connectivity-and-cultural-transmission/B9AB7532042CDE65A6E9BECAD60B9B61

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Stéphane Peyrégne, Diyendo Massilani, Yaniv Swiel, Michael James Boyle, Leonardo N. M. Iasi, Arev P. Sümer, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Cesare de Filippo, Bence Viola, Elena Essel, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter, Antje Weihmann, Barbara Schellbach, Hugo Zeberg, Johann Visagie, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Kay Prüfer, Benjamin M. Peter, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo & Janet Kelso (2025)
A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan
bioRxiv 2025.10.20.683404 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.20.683404
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683404v1

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Pierre Linchamps, Raphaël Hanon, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Christine Steininger, Jean-Tristan Brandenburg, Bernhard Zipfel, Sandrine Prat, Dominic Stratford, Raphaël Cornette & Pierre Latouche (2025)
Reconstructing the palaeoclimate of the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa over the last 3.5 million years using machine learning and mammalian fossil assemblages
Quaternary Science Reviews 370: 109655
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109655
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125004755

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Akimasa Ito, Masayuki Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida & Naomichi Ogihara (2025)
Gorilla knuckle-walking mechanics suggest independent evolution in African great apes
Scientific Reports 15: 37962
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21780-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21780-2

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Leonardo Salari, Angelica Fiorillo, Mario F. Rolfo & Maurizio Gatta (2025)
Late Pleistocene Marmota marmota from Grotta Mora Cavorso (central Italy): A morphological and osteometric contribution to the Western European fossil record
Quaternary International 749: 110031
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110031
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061822500374X

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M.P. Alfaro-Ibáñez, P. Bover, J. Lira Garrido, J.C. Domínguez, J.T. García, J. Martínez-Padilla & G. Cuenca-Bescós (2025)
Spatiotemporal dynamics of Chionomys nivalis from the Late Pleistocene to the present: insights from ancient DNA and dental morphology
Quaternary Science Reviews 370: 109672
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109672
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125004925

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Progonomys mixtus sp. nov.
Hansdebruijnia magna comb. nov.

Jan van Dam & Willem Jan Zachariasse (2025)
The Muridae from Kastellios Hill (late Miocene, Crete, Greece): updated taxonomy and age
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10158
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/muridae-from-kastellios-hill-late-miocene-crete-greece-updated-taxonomy-and-age/8168349A2720251FCB1E9107722F6167
UUID: http://zoobank.org/ebe0f64c-6900-4efc-ab43-8a4045de6810

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Wanyi Dang, Dali Gao, Ziqiu Jia, Junnan Chen, Jialong Yin, Shibin Bai, David M. Irwin, Shuyi Zhang & Zhe Wang (2025)
Proximal phalanges of digit 1 have different identities in the forelimbs and hindlimbs of the mouse
Scientific Reports 15: 37417
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21196-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-21196-y

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Maxime Pelletier (2025)
Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70072
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70072

Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70072

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Ramesh Karunyaa, Carlton Ranjith Wilson Alphonse , Babu Divya Bharathi, Kalaiyarasan Boopathy Thiyagarajan, Chandrasekaran Bala Amarnath, Ramu Silambarasan, Ashokan Jagadeesh, M. G. Ganesan & A. Udhayan (2025)
Complete mitochondrial genomes of Axis axis and Rusa unicolor from Tamil Nadu, India and comprehensive analysis with other Cervidae
Scientific Reports: 15: 37937
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24310-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24310-2

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XU Xing-Dong & SHI Qin-Qin (2025)
First discovery of the spiral-horned antelope Antilospira (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Linxia Basin, Gansu, China  
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251030
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251030

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Olivier Lambert, Jeroen van Boeckel, Mark Bosselaers, Bert Gijsen, Pieter van Rompaey & Stijn Everaert (2025)
A tiny dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Kentriodontidae) cranium from the Middle Miocene of the southern North Sea with a rare osteological malformation
Geologica Belgica 28(1-2): 79-91
doi: https://doi.org/10.20341/gb.2025.009
https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=7277&lang=en

Free pdf:
https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=7285&file=1&pid=7277

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WANG Xiao-Ming, SUN Lu, LI Lu, LI Qiang, QIU Zhu-Ding & Zhijie Jack TSENG (2025)
Depositional history, contact relationships, and characterization of Upper Miocene Baogeda Ula Formation in central Nei Mongol with a description of fossil skunks  
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251029
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251029

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WANG Yi-Duo, PAN Yue & ZHANG Ying-Qi (2025)
Preliminary exterior skull osteology of Prionodon pardicolor.
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251027.
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251027

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Ebru Albayrak, Pierre-Olivier Antoine & Erdem Çörekçioğlu (2025)
Tufanbeyli: new lower Pliocene mammal-yielding locality and first record of “Mammut” borsoni from Turkey
RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA 131(3): 723-741.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/28746
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28746

Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28746/24873

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Athenar bermani gen. et sp. nov.

John A. Whitlock, Juan Pablo Garderes, Pablo Gallina, and Matthew C. Lamanna (2025)
Athenar bermani, a new species of dicraeosaurid sauropod from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, U.S.A.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a50.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1550
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5682-athenar-bermani-new-dicraeosaurid-sauropod

Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1550.pdf

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J.A. McLarty, Z. McKenzie, W.K. Hayes, R. Clawson, H.D. Baltazar, E.F. Alves, K.E. Nick & R. Esperante (2025)
Let that sink in: track depth as a driving factor in the formation of dinosaur tail traces
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2481520
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2481520

Free pdf:
https://zenodo.org/records/17213799

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E. Puértolas-Pascual (2025)
New dwarf crocodylomorph from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and the first neuroanatomical data for Atoposauridae.
Fossil Record 28(2): 321-346.
doi:  https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.167846
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/167846/

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France de Lapparent de Broin (2025)
Description of a new specimen of the Late Cretaceous allodaposuchid crocodile Massaliasuchus affuvelensis (Matheron, 1869), with stratigraphic and palaeogeographic comments
Revue de Paléobiologie 44(7): 1-43
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16529344
https://zenodo.org/records/16529344

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Marcos Martín-Jiménez, Javier Catalá Montolio & Adán Pérez-García (2025)
First neuroanatomical study of the Paleocene bothremydid turtle Taphrosphys (Pleurodira), based on a skull of the Moroccan Taphrosphys ippolitoi, and implications for the marine lifestyle in Taphrosphyini
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 66
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00401-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00401-5

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Adán Pérez-García, Andrea Guerrero, Santiago Martín de Jesús & Francisco Ortega (2025)
The middle Eocene podocnemidid turtles from the eastern Duero Basin (Soria Province, central Spain)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 67
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00409-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00409-x

 
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Milan Chroust & Tomasz Szczygielski (2025)
TED (Turtle Evolution Database), an online database of fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland with images and 3D models
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 68
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00399-w
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00399-w

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Till Ramm, Emily Roycroft, Jaimi A. Gray, Christy A. Hipsley, Scott Hocknull, Johannes Müller & Jane Melville (2025)
Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.067
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012679

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Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov.

María Eurídice Páramo Fonseca, José Alejandro Narváez Rincón, Cristian David Benavides-Cabra
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., a new mosasaur from Colombia
Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247
doi: https://doi.org/10.15446/esrj.v29n3.117157
https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/117157/95968

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Jose P. O’Gorman and Roger B.J. Benson (2025)
A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628
doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012192024.html

Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app020192024.pdf

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Valentin Buffa, Jordan Gônet, Thomas van de Kamp, Marcus Zuber, Marc Girondot, Eberhard Frey, J.-Sébastien Steyer & Michel Laurin (2025)
Morphology and osteo-histology of the weigeltisaurid wing: Implications for aerial locomotion in the world's first gliding reptiles
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70058
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70058

Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70058


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Robert R. Reisz & Sean P. Modesto (2025)
Re-evaluation of the Carboniferous tetrapod Asaphestera platyris with comments on the amniote fauna of the Joggins Formation, Canada
Papers in Palaeontology 11(6): e70044
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70044
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70044

Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70044

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Patrycja G. Dworczak, Piotr Szrek, and Olga Wilk (2025)
Bioerosion in the Late Devonian placoderm remains from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 629-639
doi:10.4202/app.01220.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012202024.html

Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012202024.pdf

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Martin Ebert & Martina Kölbl-Ebert (2025)
Hunted hunters – prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal tracts from the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago.
Fossil Record 28(2): 347-357.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.169110
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/169110/

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Paul P Stewens (2025)
A classification unearthed: the history of palaeontological objects as cultural property in international law
London Review of International Law, lraf021
doi:  https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraf021
https://academic.oup.com/lril/advance-article/doi/10.1093/lril/lraf021/8304059

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Roshan Paudel, Purushottam Adhikari, Sujata Poudel, Sadanand, Harshita Bhatia, Gaurav Srivastava & Khum N. Paudayal (2025)
Plant fossils from the Siwalik sediments of western Nepal and their climatic significance
Discover Geoscience 3: 187
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44288-025-00310-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44288-025-00310-7

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Tiantian Shen, Ran Zhang, Jiawen Shi, Junsheng Nie & Peng Gao (2025)
Temperature Variability Response in the Warm Eocene and Pliocene
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119958
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119958

Free pdf:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL119958