Icaphoca + Vulcanoscaptor + Novaculadon + Tongnanlong + Pulaosaurus + Manistropheus + Venczelibatrachus + Strophodus timoluebkei + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Patricia A. Holroyd (2025)
2024 Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting Abstracts
PaleoBios 42(2):1-12.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.48924
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12k0x5v9
https://escholarship.org/uc/ucmp_paleobios/42/2
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Abstracts of the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology 14 Virtual Meeting: 07.-10. August 2025
Journal of Morphology 286(S)1 : 1-67
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70059
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José M. López-Rey, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Hila May, Dani Nadel, Carlos A. Palancar, Marta Gómez-Recio, Daniel García-Martínez & Markus Bastir (2025)
Fossil ribcages of Homo sapiens provide new insights into modern human evolution
Communications Biology 8: 1038
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08472-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08472-3
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Diego Herrero-Alonso, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, Natalia Abellán-Beltrán, Macarena Moral, Irene González-Molina, Irene Solano-Megías, Sofía Luzón-Ruiz, Juan Marín, Adrián Álvarez-Vena, David Martín-Perea, Ana Neira, Federico Bernaldo de Quirós & Andoni Tarriño (2025)
Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian
Journal of Human Evolution 205: 103715
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103715
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000685
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Mayukh Mondal, Mathilde André, Ajai K. Pathak, Nicolas Brucato, François-Xavier Ricaut, Mait Metspalu & Anders Eriksson (2025)
Resolving out of Africa event for Papua New Guinean population using neural network
Nature Communications 16: 6345
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61661-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61661-w
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Armando Falcucci, Keiko Kitagawa, Luc Doyon, Laura Tassoni, Tom Higham, Clarissa Dominici, Diego Dreossi, Jacopo Crezzini, Matteo Rossini, Stefano Benazzi, Ivan Martini, Francesco Boschin, Vincenzo Spagnolo & Adriana Moroni (2025)
Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala
Quaternary Science Reviews 366: 109471
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109471
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125002914
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Thomas W. DAVIES (2025)
Australopithecus sediba: an internal dental perspective
in HUBLIN J.-J., MOUNIER A. & TEYSSANDIER N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(18): 345-362
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a18
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/18
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Amélie Beaudet, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Emmanuel Ndiema, Dominic Stratford & Bernhard Zipfel (2025)
New insights into the first cervical vertebrae of Otavipithecus and Nacholapithecus
Scientific Reports 15: 24569
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09006-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09006-x
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Nathaniel S. Fox & Jessica L. Blois (2025)
A geometric morphometric approach to identifying recent and fossil woodrat molars with remarks on Late Pleistocene Neotoma macrotis from Rancho La Brea
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.9
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Icaphoca choristodon gen. et sp. nov.
Leonard DEWAELE & Christian de MUIZON (2025)
Icaphoca choristodon n. gen., n. sp., a new monachine seal (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Neogene of Peru.
Geodiversitas 47 (11): 465-499
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a11.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/47/11
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a11.pdf
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TONG Hao-Wen, CHEN Xi, ZHANG Bei & SUN Ji-Jia (2025)
New fossil materials of Sus lydekkeri from the Early Pleistocene Shanshenmiaozui site in Nihewan Basin of North China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250711
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250711
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Ryan S. Paterson, Meaghan Mackie, Alessio Capobianco, Nicola S. Heckeberg, Danielle Fraser, Beatrice Demarchi, Fazeelah Munir, Ioannis Patramanis, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Shanlin Liu, Abigail D. Ramsøe, Marc R. Dickinson, Chloë Baldreki, Marisa Gilbert, Raffaele Sardella, Luca Bellucci, Gabriele Scorrano, Michela Leonardi, Andrea Manica, Fernando Racimo, Eske Willerslev, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, Jesper V. Olsen, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Natalia Rybczynski, Sebastian Höhna & Enrico Cappellini (2025)
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09231-4
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09231-4
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Vulcanoscaptor ninoti gen. et sp. nov.
Adriana Linares-Martín, Marc Furió, Bruno Gómez de Soler, Jordi Agustí, Oriol Oms, Federica Grandi, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Pedro Piñero & Gerard Campeny (2025)
An unexpected Scalopini mole (Talpidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Europe sheds light on the phylogeny of talpids
Scientific Reports 15: 24928
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10396-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-10396-1
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Priscila S. Rothier, Anthony Herrel, Roger B. J. Benson & Brandon P. Hedrick (2025)
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals
BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 69
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02393-9
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02393-9
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Novaculadon mirabilis gen. et sp. nov.
Benjamin T. Weston, Steven C. Sweetman, Jake Kean, Charles Wood, David M. Martill & Roy E. Smith (2025)
A new multituberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Lulworth Formation (Cretaceous, Berriasian) of Dorset, England
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101128
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101128
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787825000379
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John Llewelyn, Caitlin Mudge, Frédérik Saltré, April E. Reside, Vera Weisbecker, Christopher R. Dickman, and Corey J. A. Bradshaw (2025)
Trophic and taxonomic restructuring of Sahul's large-bodied animal community since the Late Pleistocene.
Quaternary Australasia 42(1): 16--24
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Daniel R. Green, Kevin T. Uno, Ellen R. Miller, Craig S. Feibel, Eipa Emmanuel Aoron, Catherine C. Beck, Aryeh Grossman, Francis M. Kirera, Martin M. Kirinya, Louise N. Leakey, Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Fredrick K. Manthi, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, Isaiah O. Nengo, Cyprian Nyete, John Rowan, Gabrielle A. Russo, William J. Sanders, Tara M. Smiley, Patricia Princehouse, Natasha S. Vitek & Timothy P. Cleland (2025)
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09040-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09040-9
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Yan-Yun Zhang, Jia-Wei Tang, Ying Wang & Shuo Wang (2025)
Medulla-free barb rami highlight the morphological diversity of early feathers.
Zoological Research 46(4): 773-787
DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2024.435
https://www.zoores.ac.cn/article/doi/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2024.435
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Tongnanlong zhimingi gen. et sp. nov.
Xuefang Wei, Yuanjun Tan, Shan Jiang, Jun Ding, Lei Li, Xiaobing Wang, Yiyang Liu, Guangbiao Wei, Deliang Li, Yu Liu, Guangzhao Peng, Shizhen Zhang & Changling Lao (2025)
A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in China and its implication on sauropod gigantism
Scientific Reports 15 24808
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09796-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09796-0
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Qing Yang, Lida Xing, Fangpeng Du, Qiyan Chen, Hendrik Klein, Anthony Romilio, Yufei Jin, Lin Liu, Juan Qi, Ming Zhao, Xi Chen, Ya Zhao, Lixin Wei & Yang Wan (2025)
A new sauropod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous in central Ningxia, northwestern China, and the implications on palaeoenvironments
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 35
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00378-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00378-1
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Jiménez-Moreno Francisco Javier, Ángel Alejandro Ramírez-Velasco, Patricio
Ocampo-Cornejo, Jorge Velázquez-Castro & Rodolfo Palomino-Merino (2025)
First Population Analysis in Hadrosauroid dinosaurs (Ornithopoda: Iguanodontia:
Hadrosauroidea)
Evolving Earth 100072
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2025.100072
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950117225000160
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Asato Ishikawa, Wenjie Zheng, Takuya Imai, Soki Hattori, Masateru Shibata, Soichiro Kawabe & Xingsheng Jin (2025)
Psittacosaurus houi, a longer snouted psittacosaurid from the Lower Cretaceous Lujiatun Unit of Yixian Formation, China, with the synonymy of the unresolved genus Hongshanosaurus revisited.
PeerJ 13: e19547
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19547
https://peerj.com/articles/19547/
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GUO Te, HE Yi-Ming & ZHAO Qi (2025)
Osteohistology on Liaoceratops yanzigouensis (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250708
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250708
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Pulaosaurus qinglong gen. et sp. nov.
Yunfeng Yang, James L. King & Xing Xu (2025)
A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China.
PeerJ 13:e19664
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19664
https://peerj.com/articles/19664/
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Hugo Bert, Holly Woodward, Nicolas Rinder, Romain Amiot, John R. Horner, Christophe Lécuyer, Mariana Sena & Jorge Cubo (2025)
Neonatal state and degree of necessity for parental care in Maiasaura based on inferred neonatal metabolic rates
Scientific Reports 15: 24827
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06282-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-06282-5
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Michela M. Johnson, Eudald Mujal, Samuel L.A. Cooper & Erin E. Maxwell (2025)
Criteria for inferring seafloor arrival position in teleosauroid carcasses (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) and comparison with other marine vertebrates
Geological Magazine 162: e19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100058
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Manistropheus kulicki gen. et. sp. nov.
Martín D. Ezcurra, Hans-Dieter Sues & Jörg Fröbisch (2025)
A new late Permian archosauromorph reptile from Germany enhances our understanding of the early diversity of the clade
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2509639
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2509639
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2509639
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2509639
https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CC99EAD-5214-4707-A79D-B3332E91E128
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Venczelibatrachus palaeocenicus gen. et spec. nov.
Davit Vasilyan & Loredana Macaluso (2025)
Palaeocene herpetofauna of Walbeck (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany) with a focus on lissamphibians
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00664-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00664-3
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Joshua P. Batt, Tom J. Challands, John. A. Long, Carey Burke & Alice M. Clement (2025)
New rhizodontid (Tetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii) material from Romer’s Gap (Tournaisian) of the Ballagan Formation (Scotland, U.K.)
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2514116
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2514116
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2514116
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2514116
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Zhiwei Yuan, Lionel Cavin and Haijun Song (2025)
On the Incompleteness of the Coelacanth Fossil Record
Fossil Studies 3(3): 10
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3030010
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/3/10
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Donald B. Brinkman, Julien D. Divay, David G. DeMar, Jr., and Gregory P. Wilson Mantilla
Moderate extinctions and slow recovery of non-marine teleost fishes across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, with a systematic appraisal of early Paleocene teleost fishes from Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, USA.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a28.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1559
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1559.pdf
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Strophodus timoluebkei sp. nov.
Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Iwan Stössel, René Kindlimann and Christian Klug (2025)
A new hybodontiform shark (Strophodus Agassiz, 1838) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 36
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00376-3
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00376-3
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V.S. Boeskorov & G.N. Savvinov (2025)
Fossil specimens of the mesofauna from the Quaternary period of the Yana Plateau as indicators of the paleolandscape conditions during the late Pleistocene.
Arctic and Subarctic Natural Resources 30(2): 272-281. (In Russian)
https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2025-30-2-272-281
https://resar.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/936/696
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Daigo Yamamura and Celina Suarez (2025)
Vertebrate Skeletal Remains as Paleohydrologic Proxies: Complex Hydrologic Setting in the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation
Geosciences 15(7): 262
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15070262
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/7/262
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Graham McLean (2025)
The Sydney Basin in the Triassic – a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and ecosystems. The Wianamatta Group
Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 42: 1-29
doi: https://doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.42.2025.1909
https://journals.australian.museum/mclean-2025-tech-rep-aust-mus-online-42-129/
Free pdf:
https://journals.australian.museum/media/dd/documents/1909_Complete.eec26b4.pdf
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Daniela Quiroz-Cabascango, Vivi Vajda, Stephen McLoughlin & Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki (2025)
Earliest Jurassic plant assemblages from Sweden reveal a low-diversity ginkgoalean and cheirolepid flora dominating the post-extinction landscape
Annals of Botany, mcaf143
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf143
https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf143/8195845
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Jonathon Leonard, Sabin Zahirovic, Philip B. Holden, Tristan Salles, Neil R. Edwards & Claire A. Mallard (2025)
Polar wander leads to large differences in past climate reconstructions
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 508
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02485-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02485-w
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Sheng-Ao Liu, Zhili Xiong, Tianhao Wu & Mingyu Zhao (2025)
Plume-induced emissions of deep methane linked to the end-Guadalupian mass extinction
Nature Communications 16: 5865
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61147-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61147-9
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Runjian Chu, Huaichun Wu, Jian Zhang, Qiang Fang, Christian Zeeden, Peng Chen, Rukai Zhu, Jingwei Cui, Shihong Zhang, Tianshui Yang & Chengshan Wang (2025)
Orbital eccentricity and internal feedbacks drove the Triassic megamonsoon variability
Scientific Reports 15: 24190
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09295-2
https://www.nature.com/