Ardipithecus ankle + Paranthropus hand + Taeniolabis + Brasilodon growth + Anteavis + Velociraptor + Whiteia anniae + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Thomas C. Prang, Matthew W. Tocheri, Biren A. Patel, Scott A. Williams & Caley M. Orr (2025)
Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins
Communications Biology 8: 1454
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08711-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08711-7
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Carrie S. Mongle, Caley M. Orr, Matthew W. Tocheri, Thomas Cody Prang, Frederick E. Grine, Craig Feibel, Biren A. Patel, Olivia Laureijs, Tara E. Hobbs, Stephanie Maiolino, James Rossie, Winfred Mbogo, Anton Du Plessis, John Lonyericho, William Woto Huka, Hilary Sale, Abdi Umuro, Peter Yirgudo, Ibrae Dalacha, Martin Kirinya, Ezekiel Linga, Richard Loki, Apolo Longaye, Malmalo Longaye, Emmanuel Lonyericho, Iyole Loyapan, Nyiber Nakudo, Cyprian Nyete, Meave G. Leakey & Louise N. Leakey (2025)
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei
Nature (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09594-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09594-8
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Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Janaina Sena de Souza, Manish Arora, Christine Austin, Kira Westaway, Ian Moffat, Wei Wang, Wei Liao, Yingqi Zhang, Justin W Adams, Luca Fiorenza, Flora Dérognat, Marie-Helene Moncel, Gary T. Schwartz, Marian Bailey, Filipe F. dos Santos, Gabriela D. A. Guardia, Rafael L. V. Mercuri, Pedro A. F. Galante, Aline M. A. Martins, Blake L. Tsu, Christopher A. Barnes, John Yates III, Luiz Pedro Petroski, Sandra M. Sanchez-Sanchez, Jose Oviedo, Roberto H. Herai, Bernardo Lemos, Matthew Tonge, and Alysson R. Muotri (2025)
Impact of intermittent lead exposure on hominid brain evolution.
Science Advances 11(42): eadr1524
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr1524
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr1524
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adr1524
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Pallas Laurent, Nakatsukasa Masato, Daver Guillaume, Guy Franck, Rio Noam & Rowan John (2025)
New femoral evidence from the Afar reveal the early evolution of habitual squatting behaviors in the genus Theropithecus
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1593646
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1593646
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1593646/full
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Richard S. White, Jim I Mead, Gary S. Morgan & Sandra L. Swift (2025)
Fossil Capybara (Rodentia: Caviidae: Hydrochoerinae) from the late Pleistocene Terapa Local Fauna, Sonora, Mexico with a review of the dispersal of capybara in North America
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 503–522
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John-Paul Zonneveld, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Ahn Tuan Nguyen, Tobias R. Avalos & Russell L. Ciochon (2025)
Extreme modification of teeth and bones by porcupines (Hystrix cf. H. kiangsenensis and Atherurus macrourus) Làng Tráng Cave complex, northern Vietnam
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10025
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Z. Jack Tseng (2025)
Newly described specimens of leptarctine mustelids expand their geographic range in the western United States
PaleoBios 42(6): 1-10
doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.48360
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hv2z5nt
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Apolline Alfsen, Christian de Muizon, Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Antonia R. Kaffler, Matthew R. McCurry, Alexandra Houssaye, Rafael M. Varas-Malca, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, Oliver Hampe & Eli Amson (2025)
Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70058
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70058
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70058
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Luca Cistrone, Emiliano Mori, Mariella Baratti, Mourad Ahmim, Simona Todaro, Andrea Viviano, Danilo Russo
Across the Channel and Through Time: Did Lesser Horseshoe Bats Colonise Pantelleria From Europe or North Africa?
Ecology and Evolution 15(10): e72308
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72308
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72308
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72308
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Georgia Svorligkou, Panagiotis Kampouridis, Nikolaos Kargopoulos & Luca Pandolfi (2025)
Craniodental anatomy of the hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium schlosseri (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Samos Island, Greece
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 36
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09777-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09777-0
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Richard S. White & Jim I Mead (2025)
Deer (Cervidae) and pronghorn (Antilocapridae) from the late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Terapa Local Fauna, Sonora, Mexico
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 447–460
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Roger S. Seymour & Edward P. Snelling (2025)
How long limbs reduce the energetic burden on the heart of the giraffe
Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.251092
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.251092
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Ran Tian, Tong Zhang, Hao Dong, Inge Seim & Guang Yang (2025)
Cetacean loss of the master adipose tissue regulator β3-adrenergic receptor may underlie their thick blubber and an Oligocene radiation and dispersal
Nature Communications 16: 9235
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64288-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64288-z
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Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas & Gregory J Retallack (2025)
Coprolites from the early Miocene of Nebraska, USA – the earliest ruminant dung pats?
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 163–167
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W. David Lambert (2025)
The validity of the genus Stenobelodon (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae): a response to the referral of the Mixson's bone bed (Late Miocene, Florida) gomphothere to Amebelodon
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 213–218
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Ricardo H. Aguilar; Claudia Aurora Uribe-Mú, Eduardo Ladrón De Guevara-Ureña, Alejandro Muñoz-Urias, and Maria Guadalupe Pulido-Avila (2025)
Reassessment of paleontological localities of megaherbivores from the Quaternary of Jalisco, Mexico, with taxonomic remarks
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 41–63
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Sunil Bajpai and Abhay Rautela (2025)
Early Eocene terrestrial mammal faunas of India: Biogeographic insights
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 70(1): 29-41
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/05529360251342859
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05529360251342859
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/05529360251342859
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Simone Hoffmann & David W. Krause (2025)
Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00671-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00671-4
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Matías I Muñoz, Myriam Marsot, Jacintha Ellers & Wouter Halfwerk (2025)
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals
Evolution, qpaf209
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf209
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf209/8281974
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Charles J. Salcido, Pamela G. Gill, Agustín G. Martinelli, James R. G. Rawson, Ian J. Corfe, Marina B. Soares, Heitor Francischini, Cesar L. Schultz & Emily J. Rayfield (2025)
Functional morphology and biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite performance in the sister taxon of Mammaliformes
Palaeontology 68(5): e70026
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70026
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70026
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70026
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Jicheng Ren, Lu Liu, Fenglu Han, Xing Xu, James M. Clark, Jun Liu, Jin Meng, and Fangyuan Mao
A new specimen of the tritylodontid Bienotheroides zigongensis (Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Wucaiwan area of Xinjiang, China, and phylogeny of Tritylodontidae
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 477: 117 pp.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5531/sd.sp.77
https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/dd8a804a-ee81-4a73-a50b-2911543db08c
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Fabio Alfieri, Oliver E. Demuth, Elizabeth M. Steell, Anne-Claire Fabre & Daniel J. Field (2025)
Constrained variation in the internal architecture of avian wing bones
Functional Ecology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70178
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.70178
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.70178
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Oliver E. Demuth, John R. Hutchinson, Vittorio La Barbera, Sharon E. Warner & Daniel J. Field (2025)
Soft tissue constraints on joint mobility in the avian shoulder
Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.250952.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250952
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Anteavis crurilongus gen. et sp. nov.
Ricardo N. Martínez, Carina E. Colombi, Martín D. Ezcurra, Diego O. Abelín, Ignacio Cerda & Oscar A. Alcober (2025)
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02868-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02868-4
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Gabriele Bindellini, Alfio Moscarella, Peter Makovicky, Fabio Manucci & Marco Romano (2025)
Velociraptor: the state of the art 100 years after the discovery of this iconic dinosaur
Italian Journal of Geosciences 144(3): 460-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2025.22
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Jordan C. Mallon, Michael J. Ryan & Tim T. Tokaryk (2025)
A Spinops sternbergorum (Ornithsichia: Ceratopsia) parietal from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Muddy Lake, Saskatchewan
The Canadian Field-Naturalist 138(4): 294– 299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v138i4.3451
https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/3451
Free pdf:
https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/3451/3359
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Jack B. Davidson, James O. Farlow, Todd L. Green & Jordan C. Mallon (2025)
Testing the utility of interdigital angle as a taxonomically informative variable in tridactyl dinosaur ichnology
Italian Journal of Geosciences 144(3): 364-387
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2025.16
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Hendrik Klein & Spencer G. Lucas (2025)
Early evolution of dinosaurs: indications from the Triassic footprint record
Italian Journal of Geosciences 144(3): 436-459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2025.21
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Gerard Gierliński, Stanisław Jachymek & Piotr Szrek (2025)
Probable rhabdodontid track from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland and associated tetrapod ichnotaxa
Italian Journal of Geosciences 145(1): (1-10)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3301/ijg.2026.01
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Chara Drakopoulou, Georgios L. Georgalis, Georgios Lazaridis & Dimitris S. Kostopoulos (2025)
Early Pliocene Varanus (Squamata, Varanidae) remains from Megalo Emvolon, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70068
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70068
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70068
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Emma Sherratt, Jenna Crowe-Riddell, Alessandro Palci, Ammresh, Mark N Hutchinson, Michael S Y Lee & Kate L Sanders (2025)
Rapid evolution and cranial morphospace expansion during the terrestrial to marine transition in elapid snakes
Evolution, qpaf180
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf180
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf180/8285823
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E. I. Boyarinova & V. K. Golubev (2025)
Postcranial Osteoderms of Late Permian Pareiasaurs from Eastern Europe. III. Late Severodvinian Pareiasaurs
Paleontological Journal 59: 433–445
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030125600362
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030125600362
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David Trevino Ledesma, Kyle J. Moxley & Melissa E. Kemp (2025)
The late Quaternary fossil record of mole salamanders in central Texas reveals range shifts and responses to environmental change
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10029
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Whiteia anniae sp. nov.
Qing-Hua Dai, Guang-Hui Xu, Feng-Ting Tan, Zhi-Wei Yuan, Cheng-Kai Sun, Jun-ling Liao, Bing-He Geng & Hai-Jun Song (2025)
A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China
Scientific Reports 15: 36320
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-20229-w
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Donald B. Brinkman, Martin Kundrát, David J. Ward, Alison M. Murray, Izzet K. Aimbetov, Lisa Van Loon & Neil R. Banerjee (2025)
Fish Faunas from the Bissekty Formation (Turonian), Uzbekistan: Insights into Biogeographic Connectivity and Climate-Driven Faunal Turnover
Cretaceous Research 106252
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106252
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001752
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Chiloconger aflorens sp. nov., Dasyscopelus inopinatus sp. nov., Hoplostethus boyae sp. nov., and Malakichthys schwarzhansi sp. nov.
Chien-Hsiang Lin & Aaron O’Dea (2025)
Remarkable dominance of myctophid otoliths in Upper Miocene Chagres Formation, Caribbean Panama.
PeerJ 13:e20155
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20155
https://peerj.com/articles/20155/
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Thomas P. Vida, Jürgen Kriwet & Thomas Martin (2025)
A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00744-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00744-x
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Nongmaithem Amardas Singh, Kongrailatpam Milankumar Sharma, Rajeev Patnaik, Raghavendra Prasad Tiwari, P. K. Kathal, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, Yumlembam Priyananda Singh and Deepak Choudhary (2025)
Additional late Miocene sharks and batoids (Chondrichthyes,Elasmobranchii) from Baripada Beds, Odisha, India: Implicationsfor palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/05529360251376768
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/05529360251376768
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Anabella P. Trigila, Paula Beati, Dante Montini, Camila Jovicic, Paula de la Vega & Lucía F. Franchini (2025)
Comparative genomics sheds light on mammalian and avian gene regulation and phenotypic evolution
Nature Communications 16: 9111
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64134-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-025-64134-2
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Nicolas Bourgon, Tina Lüdecke, Jennifer N. Leichliter, Chris Bauman, Sven Brömme, Marissa Vink, Anne-Marie Bacon, Jeremy McCormack, Thi Mai Huong Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Jean-Luc Ponche, Philippe Duringer, Fabrice Demeter, Souliphane Boualaphane, Thonglith Luangkhoth, Elise Dufour, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Klervia Jaouen, Thomas Tütken, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia, and Patrick Roberts (2025)
Faunal persistence and ecological flexibility in Pleistocene Southeast Asia revealed through multi-isotope analysis
Science Advances 11(42): eadu3642
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adu3642
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu3642
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Yu-Ting Zhong, Magdalena H. Huyskens, Run-Jian Chu, Han-Qing Yang, Jian-Fang Hu, Ya-Qiong Wang, Shi-Xi Cai, Qiong Wu, Qiang Ma, Huai-Chun Wu, Qing-Zhu Yin & Yi-Gang Xu (2025)
High-precision geochronology of the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation: Temporal constraints on the late phase of the Jehol Biota
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 671: 119688
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119688
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25004868
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Niklas Werner, Zhenqian Wang, Lars Werdelin & Qiong Zhang (2025)
East African uplift as a catalyst for Middle Miocene faunal transitions.
Science Advances 11(42): eadx6569
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx6569
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx6569
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adx6569
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Lawrence H. Tanner, Michael J. Clutson & David E. Brown (2025)
Evidence of Ejecta from the Late-Triassic Manicouagan Impact in the Blomidon Formation, Fundy Basin, Canada
Geosciences 15(10): 400
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15100400
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/10/400
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Morgan T. Jones, Lars E. Augland, Maria Ovtcharova, Ella W. Stokke, Morgan Ganerød, Sverre Planke (2025)
New constraints on the absolute age and duration of the Paleocene – Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) from ash layer +19 in Denmark
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 671: 119643
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119643
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25004418
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Marcos Antônio Pimentel de Sousa, Daniel Rodrigues do Nascimento Junior, Anelize Manuela Bahniuk and Giovanna Della Porta (2025)
Pilot Study on Fingerprinting the Isotopic Signatures of Fossiliferous Limestones as a Tool for Forensic Investigation of Fossil Trafficking (Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil)
Geosciences 15(10): 403
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15100403
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/15/10/403
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