Kryoryctes a montreme + Obelignathus + Saratovia + Eusthenodon + Pararhincodon torquis + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
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Ben Creisler
I hope people are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Francesco Boschin, Jacopo Crezzini, Antonio Guerreschi & Federica Fontana (2025)
Projectile weapon injuries in the Riparo Tagliente burial (Veneto, Italy) provide early evidence of Late Upper Paleolithic intergroup conflict
Scientific Reports 15: 14857
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94095-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-94095-x
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Dylan Gaffney, Annette Oertle, Alvaro Montenegro, Erlin Novita Idje Djami, Abdul Razak Macap, Tristan Russell & Daud Tanudirjo (2025)
Culturing island biomes: marsupial translocation and bone tool production around New Guinea during the Pleistocene–Holocene
Journal of Archaeological Science 179: 106241
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106241
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000901
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Isabella Araiza (2025)
Elliptical Fourier analysis of hominoid radius shape: Implications for Ardipithecus ramidus
Bioogy Open bio.061938.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.061938
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Miguel López-Cano & Markus Bastir (2025)
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges
Journal of Human Evolution 203: 103674
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103674
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000272
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Séverine L.D. Toussaint, Vincent D'Amato, Joanna Desmidt, Mélanie Berthet, Benoît Quintard & François Druelle (2025)
Functional and behavioral variation in intrinsic hand and foot digit proportions in primates
Journal of Human Evolution 203: 103679
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103679
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000326
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Jeffrey K. Spear (2025)
Integration, Modularity, and Homoplasy in the Forelimbs of Apes
Evolutionary Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-025-09648-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-025-09648-9
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KIMURA Toshiyuki and TAKAKUWA Yuji (2025)
A new specimen of Kentriodon nakajimai from the Haraichi Formation (Annaka Group) of Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 29: 81-86. (in Japanese)
https://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin29_7.pdf
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Rana Mehroz FAZAL, HE Zhan-Wu, DU Bao-Pu, CHANG Mei-Jing, SHI Jing-Song, NI Xi-Jun, LI Qiang & ZHAO Ling-Xia (2025)
Discovery of Pleistocene fruit bat Rousettus and its coexisting non-volant micromammalian fossils from the Guilin Basin, South China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250430
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250430
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Roberto Leonan M. Novaes, Vinícius C. Cláudio, Natasha A. Bertocchi, Edson F. Abreu, Don E. Wilson, Jesús E. Maldonado & Ricardo Moratelli (2025)
Islands in the stream: Distribution of Myotis attenboroughi (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Grenada and mainland South America illuminates the evolutionary history of Caribbean Myotis.
Evolutionary Systematics 9(1): 107-122
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.9.146107
https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/146107/
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HASEGAWA Yoshikazu, KIMURA Toshiyuki, MATSUOKA Hiroshige, KOHNO Naoki and KAWATANI Ayako (2025)
Late Pleistocene Dhole and Wolf from the Shiriyazaki on the Shimokita Peninsula, northern Honshu Japan.
Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 29:1－22 (in Japanese)
https://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin29_1.pdf
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Charles J. Salcido & P. David Polly (2025)
The relationship between form and function of the carnivore mandible
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25678
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25678
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25678
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Shelby C Middleton, Robert A Davis, Kenny J Travouillon, Anna J M Hopkins, Harriet R Mills & Linette S Umbrello (2025)
Revised phylogeography of the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) reveals new insights into genetic structure across Australia
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(1): zlaf026
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf026
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/1/zlaf026/8123389
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Suzanne J. Hand, Laura A. B. Wilson, Camilo López-Aguirre, Alexandra Houssaye, Michael Archer, Joseph J. Bevitt, Alistair R. Evans, Amalia Y. Halim, Tzong Hung, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich and Robin M. D. Beck (2025)
Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(19): e2413569122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413569122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413569122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2413569122
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Emily Jane McTavish, Jeff A. Gerbracht, Mark T. Holder, Marshall J. Iliff, Denis Lepage, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Benjamin D. Redelings, Luna L. Sánchez Reyes, and Eliot T. Miller (2025)
A complete and dynamic tree of birds
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(18): e2409658122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409658122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409658122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2409658122
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Arong Luo, Jacqueline M.T. Nguyen, Qing-Song Zhou, Chao-Dong Zhu & Simon Y.W. Ho (2025)
An Eocene Origin of Passerine Birds Estimated Using Bayesian Tip Dating with Fossil Occurrences
bioRxiv 2025.04.28.650918 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.28.650918
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.28.650918v1
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Susannah Maidment and Richard J. Butler (2025)
New frontiers in dinosaur exploration
Biology Letters 21(4): 20250045
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0045
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0045
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0045
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Jared T. Voris, François Therrien, Ryan C. Ridgely, Lawrence M. Witmer & Darla K. Zelenitsky (2025)
Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium
Journal of Comparative Neurology 533(5): e70056
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.70056
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.70056
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cne.70056
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Jack A. Cooper (2025)
A sauropod dinosaur with an unusually thin ilium
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2492520
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2492520
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2492520
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Obelignathus gen. nov. for "Rhabdodon" septimanicus
Łukasz Czepiński & Daniel Madzia (2025)
Exploring the diversity and disparity of rhabdodontomorph ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous European archipelago
Scientific Reports 15: 15209
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98083-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-98083-z
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Kaifeng YU, Wenhao WU, Wei SUN, Jun CHEN & Xuri WANG (2025)
New Dinosaur Teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, Northeast China
Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 99(2):
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.15288
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-6724.15288
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/abstract/2025endzxb02002
Free pdf:
https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/pdf/2025endzxb02002
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Anthony Romilio and Lida Xing (2025)
A Digital Analysis of the ‘Phoenix Trackway’ at the Hanxi Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracksite, China
Geosciences 15(5): 165
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15050165
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/5/165
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Saratovia glickmani, gen. et sp. nov.
ALEXANDER O. AVERIANOV (2025)
A new ornithocheiran pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Saratov, Russia
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20241063
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241063
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/j976f3Xdd9fhH6jgxxNt6FJ/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/j976f3Xdd9fhH6jgxxNt6FJ/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Robert S.H. Smyth, Brent H. Breithaupt, Richard J. Butler, Peter L. Falkingham & David M. Unwin (2025)
Identifying pterosaur trackmakers provides critical insights into mid-Mesozoic ground invasion
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.017
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225004464
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00446-4
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2900446-4
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Lázaro W. Viñola López, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Philippe Münch, Juan N. Almonte Milan, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Laurent Marivaux, Osvaldo Jimenez-Vasquez and Jonathan Bloch (2025)
A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West Indies ecosystems
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2045): 20242891
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2891
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2891
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.2891
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Nikolay G. Zverkov & Igor A. Meleshin (2025)
Enigmatic large-toothed Campanian polycotylid plesiosaurs with specific dietary preferences and potentially wide distribution
Journal of Palaeogeography (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2024.11.007
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625000604
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Ricardo D Romero and Flávio S J de Souza (2025)
Evolution of Pineal Nonvisual Opsins in Lizards and the Tuatara and Identification of Lepidopsin: A New Opsin Gene
Genome Biology and Evolution 17(5): evaf058
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf058
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/5/evaf058/8123238
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Michael W. Caldwell, Chase D. Brownstein, Dalton L. Meyer, Simon G. Scarpetta, Michael S.Y. Lee & Tiago R. Simões (2025)
Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate
bioRxiv 2025.04.18.649532 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.18.649532
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649532v1
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Jason P. DOWNS (2025)
New description and diagnosis of Eusthenodon wangsjoi (Tetrapodomorpha, Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian Britta Dal Formation of East Greenland
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691025000015
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Pararhincodon torquis sp. nov.
Richard P. Dearden, Zerina Johanson, Helen L. O’Neill, Kieran Miles, Emma L. Bernard, Brett Clark, Charlie J. Underwood and Martin Rücklin (2025)
Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs
Royal Society Open Science 12(4): 242011
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242011
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242011
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.242011
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Aléssio Datovo and G. David Johnson (2025)
Coelacanths illuminate deep-time evolution of cranial musculature in jawed vertebrates
Science Advances 11(18): eadt1576(2025
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt1576
doi: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt1576
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt1576
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adt1576
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TAKAKUWA Yuji (2025)
The barracuda fossil (Sphyraena, Sphyraenidae) from the early late Miocene Itahana Formation of the Annaka Group, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 29: 23-32 (in Japanese).
https://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin29_2.pdf
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Alex J. Maile, W. Leo Smith & Matthew P. Davis (2025)
A total-evidence phylogenetic approach to understanding the evolution, depth transitions, and body-shape changes in the anglerfishes and allies (Acanthuriformes: Lophioidei).
PLoS One 20(5): e0322369
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322369
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322369
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James M. Mulqueeney, Thomas H. G. Ezard & Anjali Goswami (2025)
Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses
BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 38
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02377-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-025-02377-9
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Indrė Žliobaitė & A. Michelle Lawing (2025)
Trait-based approaches to paleoenvironmental reconstructions: What is in the community-weighted trait mean?
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 112982
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112982
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225002676
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Anaëlle Jallon, Florent Rivals, Erella Hovers & Rivka Rabinovich (2025)
Assessing seasonality and mobility from a fragmented faunal assemblage: the case of Amud Cave (Israel)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17: 15
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02231-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02231-5
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Viktória Baranyi, Tamás Budai, Viktor Karádi, Xin Jin, Wolfram M. Kürschner & Emőke Tóth (2025)
Vegetation and climate record across the Carnian Pluvial episode from the Transdanubian Range, Hungary, Western Tethys
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 112989
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112989
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225002743
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Songlin He, Tianyang Wang, Robert A Spicer, Alex Farnsworth, Andreas Mulch, Mike Widdowson, Qinghai Zhang, Fulong Cai, Paul J Valdes, Chao Wang, Hasina Nirina Randrianaly, Jing Xie & Lin Ding (2025)
Back to an ice-free future: Early Cretaceous seasonal cycles of sea surface temperature and glacier ice.
Science Advances 11(18): eadr9417
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr9417
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr9417
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adr9417
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S. Abhik, Dietmar Dommenget, Shayne McGregor, David K. Hutchinson, Sebastian Steinig, Jiang Zhu, Fabio A. Capitanio, Daniel J. Lunt, Igor Niezgodzki, Gregor Knorr, Wing-Le Chan & Ayako Abe-Ouchi (2025)
Stronger and prolonged El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the Early Eocene warmth
Nature Communications 16: 4053
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59263-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59263-7
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Ran Zhang, Jiaqi Guo, Catherine D. Bradshawk, Xiyan Xu, Tiantian Shen, Shufeng Li, Junsheng Nie, Chunxia Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Ze Liu, Jian Zhang, Dabang Jiang, Yongyun Hu & Jimin Sun (2025)
Vegetation feedbacks accelerated the late Miocene climate transition
Science Advances 11(18): eads4268
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4268
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads4268
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.ads4268
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Matthew Canti (2025)
Fire and its products: recent developments in geoarchaeological microscopy and multi-disciplinary analysis
Journal of Archaeological Science 179: 106236
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106236
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000858