Vegavis geitononesos & notopothousa + Microraptor gliding + Sauropia + Ancashichthys + Aijaichthys + more free pdf
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Jian-Ping Yue, Guo-Ding Song, Shi-Xia Yang, Shu-Gang Kang, Jing-Ya Li, Ben Marwick, Andreu Ollé, Juan Luis Fernández-Marchena, Pei-Xian Shu, Hao-Yu Liu, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Qing-Po Zhao, Bao-Tong Qiao, Zhong-Shan Shen, Cheng-Long Deng & Michael Petraglia (2026)
Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago
Nature Communications 17: 615
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67601-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67601-y
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Mauro Rubini, Paola Zaio, Ferdinando Spanό, Flavio Cognigni, Marco Rossi, Alessandro Gozzi and Francesco Di Mario (2026)
Hominin Variability and Evolutionary Relationships at Guattari Cave During the Middle and Late Pleistocene (San Felice Circeo, Latina, Italy)
Genes 17(2): 132
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes17020132 -
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/17/2/132
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Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, Jill E. Scott, Chris A. Robinson & Lauren Schroeder (2026)
Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form.
PLoS One 21(1): e0340278.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0340278
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0340278
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Verónica Fernández-Navarro, Olga Spaey & Diego Garate (2026)
Reevaluating Hand Stencil Phenomena in Cave Art: A Step Forward towards the Characterization of Symbolic Patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
Cambridge Archaeological Journal (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325100322
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Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Irene Dori, Nico Radi, Patrizia Garibaldi, Irene Molinari, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Marta Zunino, Fabio Negrino & Elisabetta Starnini (2025)
New signs of skeletal trauma in the Upper Paleolithic “Principe” from Arene Candide Cave (Liguria, Italy) bear novel insights into the circumstances of his death
Journal of Anthropological Sciences Reports 103: 113-139
doi: 10.4436/JASS.10303
https://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/2025vol103/SparacelloV/41364101.pdf
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Val J. P. Syverson, Simon J. Goring, Nicola Cullen, Marta A. Jarzyna, André M. Bellvé, Andrew Martindale & Jessica L. Blois (2026)
Updated chronologies for North American small mammal fossil localities in the Neotoma Paleoecology Database
Scientific Data (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06491-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41597-025-06491-7
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Iris Menéndez, Ana Rosa Gómez Cano, Juan L. Cantalapiedra, Fernando Blanco, Sara Gamboa, Jonathan S. Pelegrin, Emilia Galli, Álvaro Quesada, María Ángeles Álvarez-Sierra & Manuel Hernández Fernández (2026)
Biome Specialisation in Squirrels: Phylogenetic and Geographic Patterns
Journal of Biogeography (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70154
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.70154
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Qi Li, Alexander Bi & Qian Li (2026)
Virtual endocasts of the Paleogene Ctenodactyloidea and brain evolution in ctenodactyloid rodents.
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 77-95
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.181868
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/181868/
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Pieter van Rompaey, Olivier Lambert, Mark Bosselaers & Stephen Louwye (2026)
Early Delphinida (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Miocene of the southern North Sea Basin
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 132(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29019
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29019
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Connor D. White (2026)
First reported Mio-Pliocene Mammut matthewi from Louisiana
Pan-American Paleontology 2: 1-35
https://www.eaglehill.us/papaonline/access-pages/002-White-accesspage.shtml
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Xin Sun, Lanhui Peng, Takumi Tsutaya, Qigao Jiangzuo, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, Yuxin Hou, Yu Han, Yan Zhuang, Jazmin Ramos Madrigal, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Meaghan Mackie, Gaudry Trochė, Jesper V. Olsen, Enrico Cappellini, Stephen J. O’Brien, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, and Shu-Jin Luo (2026)
The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2523901123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2523901123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2523901123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2523901123
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Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Karina V. Chichkoyan, Arturo Jaimes, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Oscar E. Wilson, Kévin Le Verger, Dimila Mothé, Diego Vargas, Andrés E. Reyes-Céspedes, Lautaro Hilbert, Rodolfo Sánchez, Nohé Gilson, Olivier Tombret, Astrid Bauville, Marine Libot, Alfredo A. Carlini, Antoine Zazzo & Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra (2026)
Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America
bioRxiv 2026.01.22.701027 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.22.701027
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701027v1
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Marcelo Reguero, Yaima Aquino, María Susana Bargo & Sergio F. Vizcaíno (2025)
Catálogo comentado y figurado de los especímenes tipo de Astrapotheriidae (Mammalia, Astrapotheria) depositados en el Museo de La Plata y descritos por Mercerat (1891) y descritos por Mercerat (1891)
Revista del Museo de La Plata 10(2): 65-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24215/25456377e234
https://publicaciones.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/rmlp/article/view/2625
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https://publicaciones.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/rmlp/article/view/2625/2337
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Shan Huang, Andrew Morozov, Alison Eyres & Xiang-Yi Li Richter (2026)
Diverging selection on body size in specialist terrestrial mammals
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02959-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41559-025-02959-2
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Vegavis geitononesos sp. nov.
Vegavis notopothousa sp. nov.
Facundo Irazoqui, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Paula Bona and Nahuel Vega (2026)
New Species of Vegavis (Neornithes) from Antarctica Highlights Unexpected Cretaceous Antarctic Diversity
Diversity 18(2): 82
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020082
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/82
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Yawara Takeda, Taira Kuramoto-Ahuja, Sayuri Yonei-Tamura, Hirotoshi Shibuya, Masaru Tamura, Masahiro Uesaka & Koji Tamura (2026)
Ontogenic Development of the Acrocoracoid Process Responsible for the Evolution of Avian Flapping Flight
Zoological Science 43(1):
doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250113
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Ellen M. Martin, Rachel M. Norris, Arthur Porto & Emma Sherratt (2026)
Similarities in Morphological Integration and Evolutionary Potential Across Four Common Foot Forms in Birds
Evolutionary Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-026-09666-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-026-09666-1
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Martín De los Reyes, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, & María Alejandra Sosa (2026).
A Rallidae (Aves, Gruiformes) from the Pleistocene La Esperanza Formation of Olavarría (Argentina).
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 47–55.
doi: http://10.5710/PEAPA.24.10.2025.554
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/554
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https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/554/933
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Sebastián Lyons, Sergio D. Rosset, Mariana Picasso & Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche (2026)
Functional and evolutionary insights from postnatal skull and cervical development in woodpeckers (Aves: Picinae).
Vertebrate Zoology 76: 33-49.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.76.e173317
https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/173317/
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Takumi Watanabe, Fernando E. Novas & Tatsuya Hirasawa (2026)
Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds
Zoological Science 43(1):
doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250108
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Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huih Qiu, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Wei Shyy, and Michael Pittmann (2026)
Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2518106123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518106123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518106123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2518106123
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Evan Johnson-Ransom, Paul Gignac, Daniel E. Barta, Ryan N. Felice & Eric Snively (2026)
Comparative cranial biomechanics reveal macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaurs, with emphasis on Tyrannosauroidea
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70126
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70126
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70126
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Colin Boisvert, Tom T.P. van der Linden, Owen A. Goodchild, Adrian Boeye, Charlie Roger Scherer, Harry T. Jones, Tristan Moran, Zak Lewis, Kenneth Charles Rayburn, Collin Layton, Joshua Z. Wasserlauf, Caleb Bohus, Andy Danison, Alejandro Lopez-Vaca, Leroy K. Durrant, Chance Guest, Samuel Gascoigne, and Steven J.R. Allain (2026)
“Here, size is no accident”: A novel food web analysis of the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry and ecological impact of Morrison Formation sauropod fauna
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 387-426
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Cassius Morrison, William Jude Hart, Tom T.P. van der Linden, Adrian Boeye, Ezekiel V. O’Callaghan, Colin Boisvert, Harry Gordon, Tom Trapman, Harry T. Jones, Owen Goodchild, Chance Guest, Zak Lewis, Kenneth Charles Rayburn, Collin Layton, Caleb Bohus, Andy Danison, Tristan Moran, Paul J. Byrne, Samuel Gascoigne, and Steven J.R. Allain (2026)
A functional fauna network analysis of the Morrison Formation
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 427-439
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D. Cary Woodruff, Skye Walker, Katie Hunt, and Jason P. Schein (2026)
The first specimen of Barosaurus (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae) from Montana: the northernmost occurrence of the genus
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 233-245
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L. J. Krumenacker, Robert J. Gay, Joseph E. Peterson, Rod Scheetz, and Robert Simon (2026)
Enigmatic ornithopod specimens from the Simon Quarry of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 319-329
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Gregor Hartmann, Tone Blakesley, Paige E. dePolo, and Stephen L. Brusatte (2026)
Identifying variation in dinosaur footprints and classifying problematic specimens via unbiased unsupervised machine learning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2527222122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2527222122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527222122
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2527222122
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Charles W. Helm, Mark G. Dixon, Willo M. Stear & Fred Van Berkel (2026)
Cretaceous dinosaur tracks in the Brenton Formation, Western Cape
South African Journal of Science 122(1/2): Art. #22809.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2026/22809
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/22809
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Stefanie Agne, Patrick Arnold, Berthilde Belle, Nicolas Straube, Michael Hofreiter & Frank Glaw (2026)
Mitogenomic Crocodylia phylogeny and population structure of Crocodylus porosus including the extinct Seychelles crocodile
Royal Society Open Science 13(1): 251546 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251546
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Sauropia macrorhinus gen. et sp. nov.
Rodrigo T. Müller, Lúcio Roberto-da-Silva, Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurélio & Leonardo Kerber (2026)
The smallest tetrapod from the Middle Triassic of South America: a new procolophonoid parareptile from the Ladinian of Southern Brazil
Scientific Reports 16: 866
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35114-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35114-3
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Arnaud Rebillard, Andréas Jannel, Lorenzo Marchetti, Mark J. MacDougall, Christopher Hamann, J.-Sébastien Steyer & Jörg Fröbisch (2026)
Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour
Scientific Reports 16: 1087
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-33381-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-33381-0
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J. Luke Schwenk, Victor J. Perez, Stephen J. Godfrey, and Geoffrey M. Bowers (2026)
On the cutting edge: Otodus megalodon strengthened tooth edges through zinc incorporation in enameloid.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(1): a6.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1626
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Ancashichthys peruensis gen. et sp. nov.
Aijaichthys minor gen. et sp. nov.
Elizabeth K. Ordóñez, Gloria Arratia, Luz Tejada & Cesar Chacaltana (2026)
Oldest †ellimmichthyiform fishes from Peru and the early radiation of Clupei
Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 37(5): 93–115
doi: https://doi.org/10.7302/28315
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/4a9a1b83-31a7-4ec4-941a-2b1f7e52be7e
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Olivia Vanhaesebroucke & Richard Cloutier (2026)
Morphological Disparity and Evolutionary Radiation of Early Actinopterygians Through the Devonian–Carboniferous Crisis
Diversity 18(2): 83
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020083
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/83
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Cristian Calvo, César A. Laurito & Ana L. Valerio (2026)
Consideraciones taxonómicas acerca de la paleoictiofauna de la localidad de Alto Guayacán, Formación Uscari Mioceno tardío-Plioceno temprano [N17 a N19]: registro de la especie Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827)
Revista Geológica de América Central 74: 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15517/6g1bq081
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/view/4889
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https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rgeologica/article/view/4889/6129
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Jane Catherine Reeves, Roy Albert Wogelius, Nicholas Paul Edwards, Phillip Lars Manning & Robert Stephen Sansom (2026)
Early vertebrate biomineralization and eye structure determined by synchrotron X-ray analyses of Silurian jawless fish.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293 (2063): 20252248 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2248
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Timothy G. Bromage, Christiane Denys, Christopher Lawrence De Jesus, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Ottmar Kullmer, Oliver Sandrock, Friedemann Schrenk, Marc D. McKee, Natalie Reznikov, Gail M. Ashley, Bin Hu, Sher B. Poudel, Antoine Souron, Daniel J. Buss, Eran Ittah, Jülide Kubat, Sasan Rabieh, Shoshana Yakar & Thomas A. Neubert (2026)
Palaeometabolomes yield biological and ecological profiles at early human sites
Nature 649: 1197–1205
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09843-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09843-w
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Julia McHugh and Stephanie K. Drumheller (2026)
Inter-site and inter-analyst variation in reported frequencies of modified bone material from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado and Wyoming
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 375-385
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Antonio F. Miguel (2026)
The evolutionary success of angiosperms: a foundation of bioenergetic surplus
Journal of Theoretical Biology 112391
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2026.112391
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519326000172
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Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer & Jason Hilton (2026)
Early evolutionary history of the seed
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70134
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70134
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70134
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Annabel L. Nicholls, Paul B. Wignall, Haijun Song, Jack O. Shaw, Andrew P. Beckerman & Alexander M. Dunhill (2026)
The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
npj Biodiversity 5: 3
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00117-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44185-025-00117-2
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Wenhao Li & Bowei Yuan (2026)
Recurrent and Long-Term Oceanic Anoxia Contributed to Aborted Biotic Recovery Following the Permian–Triassic Crisis
Biology 15(3): 237
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15030237
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/15/3/237
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Peixin Zhang, Minfang Yang, Jing Lu, Jacopo Dal Corso, Zhongfeng Jiang, Lei Wang, Kai Zhou, Xiaotao Xu, Yanghang Guo, Huijuan Chen, Longyi Shao, Zhen Xu & Jason Hilton (2026)
Repeated pulses of volcanism drove terrestrial vegetation and climate changes during the Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode in North China
Global and Planetary Change 258: 105301
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105301
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818126000226
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