Salwasiren + Sciurion oligocaenicus + Aenigmictis + Byeoljubuchelys + “Garamaudo” + Polazzodus + Jurascyllium + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent or not yet mentioned vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Michael K. Gagan, Linda K. Ayliffe, Mika R. Puspaningrum, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Nick Scroxton, Wahyoe S. Hantoro, Heather Scott-Gagan, Scott A. Condie, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Jian-xin Zhao, John C. Hellstrom, Alena K. Kimbrough, Matthew J. Gagan, Bambang W. Suwargadi, Joan A. Cowley, Bronwyn C. Dixon, Garry K. Smith, Neil Anderson, Henri Wong & Hamdi Rifai (2025)
Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 992
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02961-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02961-3
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Jiao Ma, Hervé Bocherens, Haowen Tong, Shuwen Pei, Xiujie Wu & Wu Liu (2026)
Paleoenvironments of the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong, east-central China and their implications for the hominin evolution in eastern Asia
Quaternary Science Reviews 373: 109746
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109746
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005669
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Darren Curnoe, Mohammed S. Sauffi, Hsiao Mei Goh, Xue-feng Sun & Roshan Peiris (2025)
A Late Pleistocene archaic human tooth from Gua Dagang (Trader’s Cave), Niah national park, Sarawak (Malaysia).
PLoS One 20(12): e0338786.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338786
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338786
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David L. G. Miedzianogora, Ceri Shipton & Matt Pope (2025)
Homo heidelbergensis and The Origins of The Middle Stone Age: The Kabwe (Broken Hill) Lithic Assemblage
African Archaeological Review (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-025-09642-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-025-09642-8
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Mark Dyble (2025)
Human monogamy in mammalian context
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2060): 20252163 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2163
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Luciano L. Rasia (2025)
Reassessing the hyperdiverse dinomyid (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) assemblage from the Late Miocene Ituzaingó Formation (Entre Rios Province, Argentina)
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.07.12.2025.3663
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/158
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Travis Park, Robert.J. Brocklehurst, Stephanie E. Pierce, William M.G. Parker, Ellen J. Coombs, Tahlia I. Pollock, James P. Rule & Alistair R. Evans (2025)
Functional trade-offs and innovation shape the adaptive landscape of aquatic mammal feeding
iScience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114338
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02599-4
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2825%2902599-4
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Salwasiren qatarensis gen. et sp. nov.
Nicholas D. Pyenson, Ferhan Sakal, Jacques LeBlanc, Jon Blundell, Katherine D. Klim, Christopher D. Marshall, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Katherine Wolfe & Faisal Al-Naimi (2025)
High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys.
PeerJ 13:e20030
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20030
https://peerj.com/articles/20030/
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Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, Scott Hocknull, Clement P. Bataille, Andrew M. Lorrey, Katarina M. Mikac, Rochelle Lawrence & Anthony Dosseto (2026)
Niche partitioning and limited mobility characterise Middle Pleistocene kangaroos from eastern Australia
Quaternary Science Reviews 373: 109731
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109731
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005517
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Paludicola 14 (2022-2024) content now free:
https://rivp-paludicola.org/volume-14-2022-2024/
Not yet mentioned mammal papers:
Thomas S. Kelly (2022)
Mammals of the early Arikareean (late Oligocene) Los Patrones Parkway local fauna, Ranch Mission Viejo, Orange County, California
Paludicola 14(1):1-31
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-1-kelly-2022.pdf
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William W. Korth, Clint A. Boyd, and Robert J. Emry (2023)
Additional small mammals from the Oligocene Brule Formation (Whitneyan) of southwestern North Dakota
Paludicola 14(2): 57-74
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-2-korth-et-al-2023.pdf
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Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Gary S. Margan, and Hannan E. LagGarry (2023)
Late Eocene (Chadronian) bats (Chiroptera) from the White River Group of northwestern Nebraska
Paludicola 14(2): 75-86
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-2-czaplewski-et-al-2023.pdf
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Sciurion oligocaenicus and S. ikimekooyensis, spp. nov.
Hesperopetes mccorquodalei, sp.nov.
Sean D. Bell, Taran Meyer, and John E. Storer (2023)
New species of Sciurion and Hesperopetes (Mammalia, Rodentia, Sciuridae) from Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan
Paludicola 14(2): 87-94
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-3-bell-et-al-2023.pdf
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William W. Korth, Clint A. Boyd, and Jeff J. Person (2023)
A new rodent fauna from the upper portion of the Brule Formation at Fitterer Ranch (Oligocene, Whitneyan), southwestern North Dakota
Paludicola 14(2): 95-109
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-3-korth-et-al-2023.pdf
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Aenigmictis magnamolaris gen. et sp. nov.
T. J. Meehan and William W. Korth (2023)
Aenigmictis, a new genus of leptictid (Mammalia, Leptictida) from northwestern Nebraska,
Paludicola 14(3): 122-129
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-3-meehan-korth-2023.pdf
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Taran Meyer, John E. Storer, and Meagan M. Gilbert (2023)
Fossil Bush locality (late Orellan: early Oligocene), Cypress Hills Formation, southwestern Saskatchewan: geology and rodents Pelycomys and Aplodontidae
Paludicola 14(3): 130-140
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-3-meyer-et-al-2023.pdf
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Lisa Carrera & Fabio Martini (2026)
The Lateglacial fossil avifauna from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Southern Italy) and the exploitation of birds by the Upper Paleolithic hunters
Quaternary International 754: 110083
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110083
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225004264
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Luisa Gräf, Eva Maria Griebeler, Jens Oldeland and Dieter Thomas Tietze (2025)
Climate-Niche Evolution in Leaf-Warblers (Aves: Phylloscopidae): A Matter of Phylogeny
Diversity 17(12): 844
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17120844
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/12/844
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Anaïs Duhamel, Aurore Canoville, Arnaud Vinçon-Laugier, Julien Joseph, François Fourel, Christophe Lécuyer, Romain Amiot, Antoine Louchart (2025)
Inferring bird migration from bone isotopes and histology: A fossil-friendly methodological framework
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70211
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70211
Free pdf:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70211
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Vanessa Alexandra García-Gil, Angélica Torices, Mirella Lòpez-Miguel & Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros (2025)
Isolated teeth of small theropods from the El Gallo Formation, Baja California, Mexico.
Cretaceous Research 106292
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106292
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125002150
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Anthony Romilio (2025)
Digital Analysis of the longest dinosaur trackway (CA6) from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) Rotzo Formation, Coste dell’Anglone, Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy
Italian Journal of Geosciences 145(2): 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2026.12
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Tess Gallagher, Dan Folkes, Michael Pittman, Tom G. Kaye, Glen W. Storrs & Jason Schein (2025)
Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur
Royal Society Open Science 12(12): 251232
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251232
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“Gilmorelarsontyrannus lethaeus”
“Elegansvenator zannoae”
Franco Sancarlo & Gregory S. Paul (2025)
The taxonomics of the diverse, lithe basal eutyrannosaur genera and species of late Maastrichtian western North America
bioRxiv 2025.12.10.693447 (preprint, not peer reviewed)
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.10.693447
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693447v1
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Chris T. Barker, Darren Naish and Neil J. Gostling (2025)
Insufficient evidence for spinosaurid survival into the latest Cretaceous: a comment on Olmedo-Romaña et al. (2025)
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.10.12.2025.3673
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/157
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Jesper Milàn, Sten Lennart Jakobsen, and Bent Erik Kramer Lindow (2025)
A diminutive pterosaur from the uppermost Maastrichtian chalk of Denmark
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 723-730
doi:10.4202/app.01252.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012522025.html
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William Jude Hart, Jessie Atterholt, and Mathew J. Wedel (2025)
First occurrences of neural canal ridges in Crocodylia
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 749-753
doi:10.4202/app.01269.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012692025.html
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Byeoljubuchelys yeosuensis gen. et sp. nov.
Minguk Kim, Jongyun Jung, Walter G. Joyce, Jae-Il Park, Hye-Yeon Jung, Hyemin Jo & Min Huh (2025)
A new, Early Cretaceous carettochelyid turtle from South Korea provides insights into softshell evolution and aquatic ecology
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 75
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00415-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00415-z
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Léa C. Girard & Walter G. Joyce (2025)
The cranial, mandibular, and hyoid anatomy of softshell turtles (Trionychidae): A revised character list for phylogenetic analysis
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70101
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70101
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70101
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Mengrao Chen, Yannan Gao, Chenkai Li, Fang Li, Feiyang Zhang, Wei Sun, Chutian Ge, Zongji Wang (2025)
Lineage-specific expansion and functional divergence of β-keratin genes underlying shell evolution in turtles
Genomics 111174
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2025.111174
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888754325001909
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Simon G Scarpetta, Benjamin R Karin, Ammon Corl & Jimmy A McGuire (2025)
The Evolutionary History of Dragon Lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) Revealed by Phylogenomics
Systematic Biology, syaf088
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf088
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syaf088/8379438
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Not yet mentioned:
Donald Lofgren, Debra Hanneman, Anthony Runkel, Ping Fong, Gabriel Hong, Josephine Burdekin, Michael Chai, Yvonne Kan and Bailey Jorgensen (2023)
New records of Eocene and Oligocene squamates from southwest Montana
Paludicola 14(3): 110-121.
https://rivp-paludicola.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/14-3-lofgren-et-al-2023.pdf
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Yang Song and Johan Lindgren (2025)
Convergence in aquatic locomotion: reconstructing mosasaurian (Squamata: Mosasauria) tail fins from osteological correlates and covariation with extant sharks
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10080
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Melanie A. D. During, Nathan E. Van Vranken, Clint A. Boyd, Per E. Ahlberg, Suzan J. A. Warmerdam-Verdegaal & Jeroen H. J. L. Van der Lubbe (2025)
“King of the Riverside”, a multi-proxy approach offers a new perspective on mosasaurs before their extinction
BMC Zoology 10: 25
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-025-00246-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40850-025-00246-y
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“Garamaudo bauciensis”
Nathalie Bardet, Alexandra Houssaye, Francois-Louis Pelissier, Yves Dutour, Eric Turin & Thierry Tortosa (2025)
Garamaudo bauciensis, a new freshwater Mosasauridae (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Provence, southeastern France
bioRxiv 12.11.693649 (preprint, not peer-reviewed)
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.11.693649
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693649v1
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Rainer R. Schoch, Stéphanie Gastou, J.-Sébastien Steyer, Eudald Mujal, Raphael Moreno & Florian Witzmann (2025)
Morphology and ontogeny of the plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosternum granulosum from the Middle Triassic of Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00748-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00748-7
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Olivia Vanhaesebroucke, Olivier Larouche & Richard Cloutier (2025)
Early sarcopterygian morphological disparity through the Devonian-Carboniferous crisis
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-31132-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-31132-9
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Polazzodus mihalyfii sp. nov.
Márton Szabó and John J. Cawley (2025)
A new pycnodontid fish from a freshwater habitat in the Upper Cretaceous Iharkút vertebrate locality, Bakony Mountains, Hungary
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 765-773
doi:10.4202/app.01279.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012792025.html
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Andrew Knapp, Gizeh Rangel-de Lazaro, Matt Friedman, Zerina Johanson, Kory M Evans, Sam Giles, Hermione T Beckett & Anjali Goswami (2025)
Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology
Evolution Letters, qraf046
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf046
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qraf046/8373725
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Andrea Tintori (2025)
A Flying Fish Across the Tethys: Thoracopterus wushaensis Tintori et al., 2012, from the Pelsa/Vazzoler Fossil-Lagerstätte (Late Ladinian, Middle Triassic) in the Dolomites (Italy)
Diversity 17(12): 847
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17120847 - 9 Dec 2025
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/12/847
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Nick Peoples & Peter C. Wainwright (2025)
Multifaceted impacts of an innovation on dental diversity in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2060): 20252208 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.202
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Jurascyllium gen. nov. (for Protospinax magnus)
Archaeoscyllium gen. nov. (for Protospinax? Muftius)
Arnaud Begat, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Patrick L. Jambura, Manuel A. Staggl, Stefanie Klug, and Jürgen Kriwet (2025)
Review of the dental pattern in the squalomorph shark Protospinax annectans , and a description of two new Jurassic shark genera
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 731-748
doi:10.4202/app.01260.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012602025.html
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Luca Medici, Annalisa Ferretti, Alberto Collareta, Giulia Bosio, Giovanni Bianucci, Giorgio Carnevale, Simone Casati, Simona Clò, Luca Lanteri, Federico Lugli, Giuseppe Marramà, Frederik H. Mollen, Martina Savioli, Daniele Malferrari
Bioapatite crystallinity and rare earth element signatures in fossil and recent sharks: A window into past and present seas
Chemical Geology 123200
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123200
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000925412500590X
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James L. Goedert, Katherine L. Anderson, Casey Burns & Steffen Kiel (2025)
Fossils of the megatoothed shark Otodus (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from Washington State, USA
PalZ (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00758-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00758-5
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Roland Zimm, Vitória Tobias Santos & Nicolas Goudemand (2025)
Integration of multi-level dental diversity links macro-evolutionary patterns to ecological strategies across sharks
eLife 14: e107406
doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.107406
https://elifesciences.org/articles/107406
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Ilja Kogan, Jan Fischer, Joerg W. Schneider & Ronny Rößler (2025)
Die fossile Haieikapsel Fayolia sterzeliana aus dem Unterkarbon von Chemnitz – Das Fossil des Jahres 2025
[The fossil shark eggcase Fayloia sterzeliana from the Lower Carboniferous of Chemnitz – 2025 Fossil of the Year]
Veröffentlichungen Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz 48: 5–26 (in German)
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