Ben Creisler
I hope people are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Open Access Issue:
Oreopithecus150 a Miocene hominoid enshrouded in a 150-years-long mystery
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2)
https://www.paleoitalia.it/bollettino-spi/bspi-vol-632/
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Fabio Di Vincenzo, Luca Bellucci & Andrea Savorelli (2024)
In praise of Oreopithecus. A Miocene primate enshrouded in a 150-year-long mystery
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 101-107
doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.12
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/01_Di_Vincenzo_et_al_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Elisabetta Cioppi, Massimo Sozzi & Roberta Pieraccioli (2024)
150 years of discoveries, research, and debates on Oreopithecus bambolii Gervais, 1872
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 109-118
doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.11
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/02_Cioppi_et_al_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Stefano Dominici & Marco Benvenuti (2024)
Two alternative ages for the Montebamboli Oreopithecus (Late Miocene, Tuscany)
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 119-136
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.04
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/03_Dominici__Benvenuti_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Luca Sineo, Clément Zanolli, Roberto Maria Miccichè, Giulia Santaluna, Gabriele Lauria, Gerlando Vita, Carolina Di Patti & Jacopo Moggi Cecchi (2024)
An Oreopithecus bambolii jaw in the Museum “Giorgio G. Gemmellaro” in Palermo
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 137-143
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.07
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/04_Sineo_et_al_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Weronika Karolina Cieszynska (2024)
Odontometric overview of Oreopithecus bambolii from Tuscany and Sardinia
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 145-151
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.05
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/05_Cieszynska_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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David M. Alba, Alessandro Urciuoli, Ashley S. Hammond, Sergio Almécija, Lorenzo Rook & Clément Zanolli (2024)
Miocene ape evolution: Where does Oreopithecus fit in?
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 153-182
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.01
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/06_Alba_et_al_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Daniel DeMiguel & Lorenzo Rook (2024)
An updated overview on the extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 183-192
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.06
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/07_DeMiguel__Rook_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Edoardo Martinetto, Luca Bellucci, Thomas Denk, Stefano Dominici, Andrea Savorelli & Elisabetta Cioppi (2024)
Sabal leaves and associated Late Miocene palaeoflora of Montebamboli (Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy)
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(2): 193-214
doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.13
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/08_Martinetto_et_al_2024_BSPI_632.pdf
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Walter Neves, Leticia Valota & Clovis Monteiro (2024)
Dental metrics of Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A comparative analysis with apes and Plio-Pleistocene hominins.
South African Journal of Science 120(7/8): 16362
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/16362
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/16362
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Jan-Olaf Reschke, Susanne Krüger & Christine Hertler (2024)
Early hominins: successful hunters, catchers, or scavengers? An agent-based model about hunting strategies in tropical grasslands
Quaternary Environments and Humans 100019
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236524000173
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Montserrat Sanz, Joan Daura, Florent Rivals & João Zilhão (2024)
The residential occupation of the Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda, Portugal) cave site: shedding light on hunting and subsistence practices in the Middle Pleistocene of western Eurasia
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16: 139
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02026-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-02026-0
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Michael J. Slack, W. Boone Law, Adelle C.F. Coster, Kane Ditchfield, Judith Field, Jillian Garvey, Luke A. Gliganic, Patrick Moss, Jarrad W. Paul, Wendy Reynen, Ingrid Ward, Sally Wasef, Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation (2024)
A 47,000 year archaeological and palaeoenvironmental record from Juukan 2 rockshelter on the western Hamersley Plateau of the Pilbara region, Western Australia
Quaternary Science Reviews 338: 108823
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108823
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912400324X
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Madlen M. Lang, Camilo López-Aguirre, Lauren Schroeder & Mary T. Silcox (2024)
Endocranial shape variation and allometry in Euarchontoglires
Scientific Reports 14: 17901
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68390-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68390-y
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Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Viola Winkler & Daniela C. Kalthoff (2024)
The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00616-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00616-3
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Ángel C. Domínguez-García, Adrián Álvarez-Vena, César Laplana, Paloma Sevilla, Jacinto Román, Josep Francesc Bisbal-Chinesta, Javier Calzada, M. Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena & Luis Benítez De Lugo Enrich (2024)
Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white-toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record
Mammal Review (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12374
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mam.12374
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Martin Pickford, Jorge Morales, Helke Mocke, Dominique Gommery and Brigitte Senut (2024)
Bat-eared fox (Canidae, Otocyon) from the Pleistocene of northern Namibia.
Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 27: 47-65.
https://www.mme.gov.na/files/publications/f9a_5_Vol%2027_2024_Pickford%20et%20al_Bat-eared%20fox.pdf
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Clark T. Ward, Brooke E. Crowley & Ross Secord (2024)
Home on the range: A multi-isotope investigation of ungulate resource partitioning at Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska, USA
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 650: 112375
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112375
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112375
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Oscar E. Wilson, Rodolfo Sánchez, Edwin Chávez-Aponte, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño & Juha Saarinen (2024)
Application of herbivore ecometrics to reconstruct terrestrial palaeoenvironments in Falcón, Venezuela
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 112397
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112397
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224003869
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Marion Dowd, Chris Stimpson, Rory Connolly, James Bonsall, Thorsten Kahlert & Rowan McLaughlin (2024)
New insights on the fauna of Ireland's Younger Dryas and Early Holocene from Alice & Gwendoline Cave
Quaternary Science Reviews 339: 108827
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108827
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124003287
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Caitlin Rabe, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Roger M. H. Smith and Anusuya Chinsamy (2024)
Geometric morphometric analysis of an ontogenetic cranial series of the Permian dicynodont Diictodon feliceps
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2027): 20240626
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0626
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0626
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0626
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Paakniwatavis grandei gen. et sp. nov.
Grace Musser & Julia A. Clarke (2024)
A new Paleogene fossil and a new dataset for waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes) clarify phylogeny, ecological evolution, and avian evolution at the K-Pg Boundary.
PLoS ONE 19(7): e0278737
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278737
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278737
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Waltonortyx bumbanipodiides gen. et sp. nov.
Waltonortygidae fam. nov.
?Paraortygoides argillae sp. nov.
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)
The galliform birds from the lower Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, U.K.): new species suggest faunal connections to Asia
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2374305
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2374305
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2374305
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Pakudyptes hakataramea gen. et sp. nov.
Tatsuro Ando, effrey Robinson,Carolina Loch,Tamon Nakahara, Shoji Hayashi, Marcus D. Richards & Robert Ewan Fordyce (2024)
A new tiny fossil penguin from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and the morphofunctional transition of the penguin wing
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2024.2362283
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2024.2362283
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03036758.2024.2362283
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Jacob S. Berv , Sonal Singhal, Daniel J. Field, Nathanael Walker-Hale, Sean W. McHugh, J. Ryan Shipley, Eliot T. Miller, Rebecca T. Kimball, Edward L. Braun, Alex Dornburg, C. Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi, Richard O. Prum, Benjamin M. Winger, Matt Friedman & Stephen A. Smith (2024)
Genome and life-history evolution link bird diversification to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Science Advances 10(31): eadp0114
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp0114
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp0114
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adp0114
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Martin Pickford (2024)
Taxonomic revision of the extinct avian oospecies Diamantornis karingarabensis (Senut et al., 1998) from the Latest Miocene of Namibia.
Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 27: 66-71.
https://www.mme.gov.na/files/publications/9f8_6_Vol%2027_2024_Pickford_Egg%20shells.pdf
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Joep Schaeffer, Ewan Wolff, Florian Witzmann, Gabriel S. Ferreira, Rainer R. Schoch & Eudald Mujal (2024)
Paleobiological implications of chevron pathology in the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany.
PLoS ONE 19(7): e0306819
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306819
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306819
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Daria Razmadze, Lotta Salomies & Nicolas Di-Poï (2024)
Squamates as a model to understand key dental features of vertebrates
Developmental Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.07.011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001216062400191X
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Deanna Flores, Antonio Meza, Christopher J. Bell, Stacie Skwarcan, William Godwin, Jesse Fremont, and Patrick J. Lewis (2024)
First fossil snake from McFaddin Beach, Texas, USA.
Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a37
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1304
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5271-mcfaddin-beach-fossil-snake
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Juan J. Calvete, Bruno Lomonte, Jordi Tena-Garcés, Michael Zollweg & Dietrich Mebs (2024)
Mandibular gland proteomics of the Mexican alligator lizard, Abronia graminea, and the red-lipped arboreal alligator lizard, Abronia lythrochila
Toxicon 108055
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2024.108055
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041010124006275
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Anna Tomańska, Martyna Stawinoga, Kacper Szturo, Marzena Styczyńska, Joanna Klećkowska-Nawrot, Maciej Janeczek, Karolina Goździewska-Harłajczuk, Oleksii Melnyk and Tomasz Gębarowski (2024)
Biological Significance of the Komodo Dragon’s Tail (Varanus komodoensis, Varanidae)
Animals 14(15): 2142
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14152142
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/15/2142
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Lemei Zhan, Yuxin Chen, Jingyi He, Zhiqiang Guo, Lian Wu, Kenneth B. Storey, Jiayong Zhang and Danna Yu (2024)
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Major Lizard Families Using Mitochondrial Genomes and Selection Pressure Analyses in Anguimorpha
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25(15): 8464
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25158464
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/15/8464
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Nicolas Séon, Peggy Vincent, Lene Liebe Delsett, Eve Poulallion, Guillaume Suan, Christophe Lécuyer, Aubrey Jane Roberts, François Fourel, Sylvain Charbonnier & Romain Amiot (2024)
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles
bioRxiv 2024.07.26.605303 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.26.605303
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.26.605303v1
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Quentin Martinez, Eli Amson, Irina Ruf, Timothy D. Smith, Nelly Pirot, Morgane Broyon, Renaud Lebrun, Guillaume Captier, Cristina Gascó Martín, Gabriel Ferreira & Pierre-Henri Fabre (2024)
Turbinal bones are still one of the last frontiers of the tetrapod skull: hypotheses, challenges and perspectives
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13122
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.13122
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Sandy M Kawano, Johnson Martin, Joshua Medina, Conor Doherty, Gary Zheng, Emma Hsiao, Matthew J Evans, Kevin de Queiroz, R Alexander Pyron, Jonathan M Huie, Riley Lima, Esther M Langan, Alan Peters & Duncan J Irschick (2024)
Applying 3D Models of Giant Salamanders to Explore Form-function Relationships in Early Digit-bearing Tetrapods
Integrative and Comparative Biology, icae129
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae129
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icb/icae129/7726734
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Ferganoceratodus edwardsi sp. nov.
Tom J. Challands, Lionel Cavin, Michel Zondo, Darlington Munyikwa, Jonah N. Choiniere & Paul M. Barrett (2024)
A new lungfish from the Upper Triassic of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2365391
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2365391
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2365391
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María Victoria Paredes-Aliaga, Héctor Botella & Alejandro Romero (2024)
Testing dental microwear as a proxy for characterising trophic ecology in fossil elasmobranchs (chondrichthyans)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143:29
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00322-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-024-00322-9
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Zixuan C Rao, Jessica A Lueders-Dumont, Gary L Stringer, Yeongjun Ryu, Kewei Zhao, Satish C Myneni, Sergey Oleynik, Gerald H Haug, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia & Daniel M Sigman (2024)
A nitrogen isotopic shift in fish otolith-bound organic matter during the Late Cretaceous.
Proceedings of the National Association of Science 121(32): e2322863121
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322863121
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322863121
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2322863121
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Maria J. Duque-Correa, Kendall D. Clements, Carlo Meloro, Fabrizia Ronco, Anna Boila, Adrian Indermaur, Walter Salzburger & Marcus Clauss (2024)
Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 34: 1017–1034
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09853-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-024-09853-3
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Lila Blake, Max Fursman, Christopher J. Duffin, Trevor Batchelor, Claudia Hildebrandt & Michael J. Benton (2024)
Microvertebrates from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK, and Nutfield, Surrey, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.07.002
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787824000452
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Jan M. M. Oomens (2024)
A possible origin of the inverted vertebrate retina revealed by physical modeling
Journal of Biological Physics (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10867-024-09662-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10867-024-09662-6
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Marcelo Domingos de Santis (2024)
Homoplasy as an Evolutionary Process: An Optimistic View on the Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution
Biological Theory (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-024-00470-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-024-00470-8
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Meg M. Walker & Julien Louys (2024)
Site formation processes and the taphonomy of vertebrate remains in underwater caves
Earth-Science Reviews 104883
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104883
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825224002101
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Alexander Ruebenstahl, Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, James C. Lamsdell and Derek E. G. Briggs (2024)
Convergent evolution of giant size in eurypterids
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2027): 20241184
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1184
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1184
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.1184