Ben Creisler
I hope people are safe and well. Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Liming Li, Troy J. Comi, Rob F. Bierman & Joshua M. Akey (2024)
Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years
SCIENCE 385(6705): eadi1768
DOI: 10.1126/science.adi1768
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1768
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adi1768
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Stéphane DUCROCQ, Chotima YAMEE, Mana RUGBUMRUNG, Yaowalak CHAIMANEE & Jean-Jacques JAEGER (2024)
New remains of Siamochoerus banmarkensis Ducrocq, Chaimanee, Suteethorn & Jaeger, 1998 (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Eocene of Thailand.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 23(19): 257-268
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a19
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/23/19
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Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Olga Dudchenko, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Cynthia Pérez Estrada, Marianne Dehasque, Claudia Fontsere, Sarah S.T. Mak, Ruqayya Khan, Vinícius G. Contessoto, Antonio B. Oliveira Junior, Achyuth Kalluchi, Bernardo J. Zubillaga Herrera, Jiyun Jeong, Renata P. Roy, Ishawnia Christopher, David Weisz, Arina D. Omer, Sanjit S. Batra, Muhammad S. Shamim, Neva C. Durand, Brendan O’Connell, Alfred L. Roca, Maksim V. Plikus, Mariya A. Kusliy, Svetlana A. Romanenko, Natalya A. Lemskaya, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Svetlana A. Modina, Polina L. Perelman, Elena A. Kizilova, Sergei I. Baiborodin, Nikolai B. Rubtsov, Gur Machol, Krisha Rath, Ragini Mahajan, Parwinder Kaur, Andreas Gnirke, Isabel Garcia-Treviño, Rob Coke, Joseph P. Flanagan, Kelcie Pletch, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Valerii Plotnikov, Innokentiy S. Pavlov, Naryya I. Pavlova, Albert V. Protopopov, Michele Di Pierro, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Eric S. Lander, M. Jordan Rowley, Peter G. Wolynes, José N. Onuchic, Love Dalén, Marc A. Marti-Renom, M. Thomas P. Gilbert & Erez Lieberman Aiden (2024)
Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample
Cell 187(14): 3541-3562.e51
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.06.002
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867424006421
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(24)00642-1.pdf
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V. Silaev, A. Shuyskiy, I. Smoleva, S. Shanina, E. Vasiliev, D. Kiseleva, A. Khazov, B. Makeev, A. Sukharev & A. Fokina (2024)
Pre-Holocene Taymyr mammoth Petya: mineralogical-isotope-geochemical properties of bones, soft tissues, skin, hairs and paleoecologic reconstructions
Proceedings of the Komi Science Centre of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 3:. 116-135 (in Russian)
doi: https://doi.org/10.19110/1994-5655-2024-3-116-135
https://komisc.editorum.ru/en/nauka/article/85353/view
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Lloyd Austin Courtenay, Alexia Serrano-Ramos, Deborah Barsky, Juan-Manuel Jiménez-Arenas & José Yravedra (2024)
Computational simulations of Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
bioRxiv 2024.07.07.602373 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.07.602373
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.07.602373v1
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Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker & Robert A. Barton (2024)
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02451-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02451-3
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Katrina E. Jones, Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Stephanie E. Pierce (2024)
Origins of mammalian vertebral function revealed through digital bending experiments
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2026): 20240820
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0820
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0820
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0820
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Rui Qiu, Yanli Du, Zhiqing Huang, Xufeng Zhu, Xiaoli Yang, Qiang Wang & Xiaolin Wang (2024)
The osteology of the wrist of Heyuannia huangi (Oviraptorosauria) and its implications for the wrist folding mechanism.
PeerJ 12:e17669
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17669
https://peerj.com/articles/17669/
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Fona herzogae gen. et sp. nov.
Haviv M. Avrahami, Peter J. Makovicky, Ryan T. Tucker & Lindsay E. Zanno (2024)
A new semi-fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25505
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25505
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25505
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Comptonatus chasei gen. et sp. nov.
Jeremy A. F. Lockwood, David M. Martill & Susannah C. R. Maidment
Comptonatus chasei, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1): 2346573
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2346573
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2346573
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2024.2346573
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http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F3125A5-BDEF-4835-8829-92104752A86F
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Daniela Barrera Guevara, Belinda Espinosa Chávez, Claudia Inés Serrano Brañas, Claudio de León Dávila, Daniel Posada Martinez, Elizabeth Freedman Fowler and Denver Fowler (2024)
Stratigraphic Reassessment of the Mexican Chasmosaurine Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna as the First Diagnostic Dinosaur Remains from the Cerro Huerta Formation (Lower Maastrichtian) Supporting the Southern Origin of the Triceratopsini
Diversity 16(7): 390
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d16070390
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/7/390
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Kevin Leonel Gomez, Agustín Pérez-Moreno, Jorge Gustavo Meso, Flavio Bellardini, Mattia Antonio Baiano, Diego Pol, Alberto Garrido, Jonatan Kaluza, Luciana Muci & Michael Pittman (2024)
Unraveling sauropod diversity in the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia through a comprehensive analysis of new and existing material
BMC Ecology and Evolution 24: 96
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02280-9
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02280-9
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D. Cary Woodruff, Brian D. Curtice & John R. Foster (2024)
Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison formation sauropods
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14108
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14108
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Blog with free pdf link at end (“read here”):
https://www.fossilcrates.com/blogs/news/oldestdinosaur
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Andrea Guarido, Diego Castanera & Alberto Cobos (2024)
Icnitas de dinosaurios en el Jurásico Superior de La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel, España)
[Dinosaur tracks from the Late Jurassic of La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel, Spain)]
Geogaceta 75: 55-58 (in Spanish)
doi: https://doi.org/10.55407/geogaceta100859
https://sge.usal.es/archivos/geogacetas/geo75/Geo75_p_55_58.pdf
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Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis gen. et sp. nov.
Nathan D. Smith, Nicole Klein, P. Martin Sander and Lars Schmitz (2024)
A new pseudosuchian from the Favret Formation of Nevada reveals that archosauriforms occupied coastal regions globally during the Middle Triassic
Biology Letters 20(7): 20240136
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0136
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0136
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0136
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Nicole Klein (2024)
Diverse growth rates in Triassic archosaurs—insights from a small terrestrial Middle Triassic pseudosuchian
Science of Nature 111: 38
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-024-01918-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-024-01918-4
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Peggy Vincent, Didier Poncet, Anthony Rard, Jean-Pierre Robin, and Rémi Allemand (2024)
New remains of Liopleurodon (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Middle Jurassic of western France and paedomorphosis within pliosaurids.
Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a34.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1280
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5257-jurassic-liopleurodon-of-france
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1280.pdf
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Electroscincus zedi gen. et sp. nov.
Juan D. Daza, Edward L. Stanley, Matthew P. Heinicke, Chuck Leah, Daniel S. Doucet, Kelsey L. Fenner, J. Salvador Arias, Ru D. A. Smith, Adolf M. Peretti, Nyi Nyi Aung & Aaron M. Bauer (2024)
Compound osteoderms preserved in amber reveal the oldest known skink
Scientific Reports 14: 15662
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66451-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66451-w
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Juliette C. L. Menon, Donald B. Brinkman, Guilherme Hermanson, Walter G. Joyce & Serjoscha W. Evers (2024)
New insights into the early morphological evolution of sea turtles by re-investigation of Nichollsemys baieri, a three-dimensionally preserved fossil stem chelonioid from the Campanian of Alberta, Canada
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143: 27
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00323-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-024-00323-8
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Mengius acutidens gen. et sp. nov.
Detlev Thies, Kevin Stevens & Jörg Ansorge (2024)
A new lepisosteiform neopterygian (Actinopterygii) from the lower Toarcian Grimmen Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00683-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-023-00683-5
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Darja Dankina, Joanas Šečkus and Dmitry P. Plax (2024)
Middle Devonian Actinopterygians from Lithuania and Belarus
Fossil Studies 2(3): 141-159
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils2030007
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/3/7
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Wojciech Pawlak, Izabela Ploch, Stanislav Štamberg, Paweł RACZYŃSKI, Hubert Kiersnowski
A new early Permian actinopterygian assemblage shows environmental controls on the distribution of Paramblypterus (Intra-Sudetic Basin, Poland)
Geological Quarterly 68:12
doi: https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1741
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/33803
Free pdf:
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/33803/25735
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Iacopo Cavicchini, Thodoris Argyriou & Sam Giles (2024)
A Portrait of a Young Fish: Redescription of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Triassic of East Greenland, with implications for ontogenetic development in early actinopterygians
bioRxiv 2024.07.06.598961 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.06.598961
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.06.598961v1
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James L. Goedert, Steffen Kiel, Eric J. Thomas & Jürgen Kriwet (2024)
An early Eocene fish assemblage associated with a barite deposit in the lower part of the Crescent Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-024-00692-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-024-00692-y
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Vendula Šlechtová, Tomáš Dvořák, Jörg Freyhof, Maurice Kottelat, Boris Levin, Alexander Golubtsov, Vlastimil Šlechta & Jörg Bohlen (2024)
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of freshwater fishes (Nemacheilidae) across Eurasia since early Eocene
bioRxiv 2024.07.05.602185 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.05.602185
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.602185v1
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Carlos De Gracia, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Gustavo A. Ballen, Giorgio Carnevale & Jürgen Kriwet (2024)
Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean
Papers in Palaeontology 10(4): e1559
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1559
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1559
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.1559
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María Patricia Velasco de León (2024)
PALEOBIOTA Y GEOLOGÍA DEL JURÁSICO DEL SUR DE MÉXICO
[Paleobiota and Geology of the Jurassic of Southern Mexico]
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO: 290 pp (in Spanish)
https://www.zaragoza.unam.mx/paleobiota-geologia-jurasico-mexico/
Free pdf:
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Matías Reolid, Mario Sánchez-Gómez, Elisa Laita & David Sanz (2024)
Late Cretaceous marine flooding and installation of a mangrove swamp environment in the Prebetic (Betic External Zones, SE Spain)
Inundación marine durante el Cretácico tardío e instalación de manglares en el Prebético (Zonas Externas Béticas, SE España)
Journal of Iberian Geology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-024-00244-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41513-024-00244-y
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Andrew C. Scott (2024)
The anatomically preserved Early Carboniferous flora of Pettycur, Fife, Scotland
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.06.001
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787824000294
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Andrew C. Scott (2024)
Thirty Years of Progress in Our Understanding of the Nature and Influence of Fire in Carboniferous Ecosystems
Fire 7(7): 248;
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7070248
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/7/248
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Douglas H. Erwin (2024)
Macroevolutionary dynamics of ecosystem-engineering and niche construction
Palaeontology 67(4): e12718
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12718
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12718
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.12718
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Kevin Lala (2024)
Understanding niche construction and phenotypic plasticity as causes of natural selection
Palaeontology 67(4): e12719
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12719
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12719
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Lewis A. Jones & Mathew Domeier (2024)
A Phanerozoic gridded dataset for palaeogeographic reconstructions
Scientific Data 11: 710
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03468-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03468-w
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