Paleoindian hunting + armadillo phylogeny + Zhengheornis + Panguraptor + Otodus megalodon size + Aminiichthys + Goodichthys + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
23rd conference of the EAVP (2026)
European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Abstracts Book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sN_GgzPDRTzZrh-gx2X8dyNFUrWtwwOT/view
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Alba Bossoms Mesa, Elena Essel, Stéphane Peyrégne, Arev P. Sümer, Leonardo N. M. Iasi, Christian Heide, Divyaratan Popli, Cesare de Filippo, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Lars Gerullat, Laurin Lippik, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Barbara Schellbach, Anna Schmidt, Johann Visagie, Antje Weihmann, Hugo Zeberg, Julia Zorn, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Patrick Semal, Grégory Abrams, Thibaut Devièse, Stéphane Pirson, Kévin Di Modica, Pierre Cattelain, Christelle Draily, Michel Toussaint, Isabelle De Groote, Frido Welker, Cosimo Posth, Marie Soressi, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Johannes Krause, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter & Mateja Hajdinjak (2026)
Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe
Nature (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10625-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41586-026-10625-1
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E. Grace Veatch, Nico Alamsyah, Michael Pante, Alex Pelissero, Tewabe Negash, Briana Pobiner, Chelsea R. Betts, Jatmiko, Thomas Sutikna, and Matthew W. Tocheri (2026)
Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis
Science Advances 12(27): eaeb7219
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aeb7219
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7219
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7219
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Ben A. Potter, James C. Chatters, Luciano Prates, S. Ivan Perez, Todd Surovell, Gustavo Politis, Matthew J. Wooller, and Robert L. Kelly (2026)
Hemisphere-wide evidence of Early Paleoindian megaherbivore specialization
Science Advances 12(27): eaef9628
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aef9628
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef9628
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aef9628
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Metin I Eren, Michelle R Bebber, Robert S Walker, C Reagan Johnson & Briggs Buchanan (2026)
Late Pleistocene Clovis atlatl hunting fails a chronological modeling test.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (28) e2607964123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2607964123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2607964123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2607964123
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Metin I. Eren, David J. Meltzer, James F. O’Connell, Briana Pobiner & John D. Speth (2026)
Did Clovis foragers hunt megafauna, scavenge their carrion, or both – And can we tell the difference?
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 105896
doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105896
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26003317
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Matthew R. Bennett, Marcin Budka, Michael Everett, Hannah Strehlau and Sally C. Reynolds (2026)
Polygons or Points? A Polygon-Based Approach to the Morphometrics of Fossil Human Footprints
Fossil Studies 4(3): 17
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4030017
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/3/17
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Stephen E. Cox, Francis J. Sousa, Gabrielle A. Russo, Kevin Hatton, E. Troy Rasbury, Sidney R. Hemming, Elena Steponaitis, Gregory A. Henkes & Mae Saslaw (2026)
Paired U/Pb and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar constraints on the Middle Miocene hominoid sites and the fossil forest at Napudet, Turkana, Kenya
GSA Bulletin (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B37847.1
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R. I. M. Dunbar (2026)
Evolutionary lags in the primate brain size/body size relationship revisited.
PLoS One 21(7): e0351073
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0351073
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0351073
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Josephina Hartung & Madelaine Böhme (2026)
Ontogenetic skull development and paleobiology of the tragulid Dorcatherium naui (mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the early Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Germany)
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 32
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09826-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09826-2
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Vlatka Cubric-Curik, Dinko Novosel, Zvonimir Mijadžiković, Ivana Keršić, Maja Ferenčaković, Siniša Radović, Aurélien Capitan, Mekki Boussaha, Jesper Stenderup, Ana Prohaska, Eske Willerslev, Ino Curik, Preston T. Miracle
Genomic Diversity of Aurochs from a Mediterranean Ice-Age Refugium
Molecular Ecology 35(13): e70449
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70449
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.70449
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.70449
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Anneke H. VAN HETEREN & Mónica VILLALBA DE ALVARADO (2026)
Functional morphology of Pleistocene and Holocene brown bears (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758): a 3D geometric morphometric approach to masseter biomechanics and evolutionary ecology.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 25 (11): 189-205.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a11
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/11
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Sophie E. Koomen, Andreas J. Lang & Thomas Martin (2026)
Tooth Function of the Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor) and Adaptations to Omnivory in the Order Carnivora
Journal of Morphology 287(7): e70142
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70142
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70142
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William J. Sanders, Xue-Ping Ji & Nina G. Jablonski (2026)
New remains of Stegodon zhaotongensis (Proboscidea, Stegodontidae) from the Late Miocene site of Shuitangba, Yunnan Province, China
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 33
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09825-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09825-3
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Daniel M. Casali, Mariela C. Castro, Martin R. Ciancio, Timothy J. Gaudin, Jeremy L. Bramblett, Alberto Boscaini, Fernando A. Perini & Max C. Langer (2026)
Unravelling the phylogeny of armadillos and their kin (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) combining morphological, molecular, and stratigraphic data
Cladistics (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.70048
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.70048
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cla.70048
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Daniel Barasoain, Carlos A. Luna, Raúl I. Vezzosi, Alfredo E. Zurita, Germán Giordano Porati, Juan D. Avila, Mariela Gallego, Fernán García & Belén Molinengo (2026)
An exceptional specimen of Eutatus seguini Gervais, 1867 (Xenarthra Cingulata) and new insights on the caudal armor variation in armadillos
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-026-00782-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-026-00782-z
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Loukas George Koungoulos, Isaac Alan Robert Kerr & Sue O’Connor (2026)
Middle Holocene survival of marsupial megafauna on the north coast of New Guinea
npj Biodiversity (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-026-00146-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-026-00146-5
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Paul Medina-González, Valentina Bernal-Fernández, Rodrigo Arancibia-Müller, Pedro Aburto-Valdebenito & Marcelo Gómez-Jaramillo (2026)
Layer-by-layer soft-tissue effects on flexion–extension-dominant passive ex vivo limb joint ROM in quadrupedal mammals: An anatomical contribution to a morphofunctional framework
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70207
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70207
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70207
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Antoine Logghe, Valentin Buffa, and Lorenzo Marchetti (2026)
An exceptional Dimetropus pes imprint with scalation pattern from the lower Permian of Lodève and its broader implications for early synapsid palaeobiogeography and skin evolution
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(2): 363-382
doi:10.4202/app.01338.2026
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app013382026.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app013382026.pdf
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Zhengheornis buyu gen. et sp. nov.
Min Wang, Jianrong Tang, Ke Deng, Liping Dong, Liming Xu, Xing Xu, Min Lin, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Runsheng Chen, Chi Zhang, and Zhonghe Zhou (2026)
Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds
Science Advances 12(27): eaeb5202
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeb5202
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb5202
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aeb5202
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Federico Javier Degrange, Ricardo S. De Mendoza, Milagros Torres Etchegorry, María Manuela Demmel Ferreira, Lawrence Witmer & Claudia Patricia Tambussi (2026)
Unlocking the early evolution of brain and feeding strategies in Anseriformes: the case of Conflicto antarcticus
Royal Society Open Science 13(7): 252544 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252544
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Leon CIMERMAN & Matija KRIŽNAR (2026)
Pleistocene avifauna finds in the Črni Kal Quarry (Primorska Region, Slovenia)
Annales, Series Historia Naturalis 36(1): 243-254 (in Slovenian)
DOI: 10.19233/ASHN.2026.24
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Zechuan Zhang, Qixing Dong, Tao Wang, Hailu You & Xunlian Wang (2026)
Redescription of the osteology and the systematics of Panguraptor lufengensis (Neotheropoda, Coelophysoidea)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 723-750
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.185485
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/185485/
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Chen-Chen Zhou, Hui Ouyang, Jing-Xin Gao, Mao-Yin Tang & Qi Zhao (2026)
Chondroid bone in the cervical ribs of a new juvenile mamenchisaurid
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2655673
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2655673
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2655673
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2655673
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Paul M. Barrett, Philip D. Mannion, Samantha L. Beeston, Matthew C. Lamanna, Brett Clark, Alejandro Otero, José P. O’gorman, and Mark Evans (2026)
A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(2): 349-362
doi:10.4202/app.01315.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app013152025.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app013152025.pdf
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Belal S. Salem, Patrick M. O’connor, Matthew C. Lamanna, Wael A. Thabet, Sanaa El-Sayed, and Hesham M. Sallam (2026)
The first pterosaur fossil from Egypt
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(2): 383-397
doi:10.4202/app.01344.2026
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app013442026.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app013442026.pdf
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Caio A. Scartezini, Pedro L. B. Pruciano, Brodsky D. M. Farias & Marina B. Soares (2026)
Integrated microanatomy and microstructure of the maxillary tooth plate reveal a reinforced feeding system and tougher diet in Late Triassic Hyperodapedontinae (Rhynchosauria, Archosauromorpha)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70261
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70261
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70261
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José P. O’Gorman, Roberto A. Scasso, and Francisco A. Medina (2026)
The first record of Tuarangisaurus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Maastrichtian of the Lefipán Formation, Chubut, Argentina
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(2):a29.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1531
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5903-first-record-of-tuarangisaurus-from-argentina
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1531.pdf
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Amelia R. Zietlow, Michael J. Everhart & Michael J. Polcyn (2026)
Redescription of the holotypes of Tylosaurus proriger and Tylosaurus nepaeolicus (Squamata: Mosasauridae)
Deinsea 24: 1 - 21
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20412622
Free pdf:
https://zenodo.org/records/20412622
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Lísie Vitória Soares Damke, Vitória Zanchett Dalle-Laste, Leonardo Kerber, Lúcio Roberto-da-Silva & Rodrigo Temp Müller (2026)
New fossil unveils the dentary anatomy of the rare lepidosauromorph Cargninia enigmatica from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70268
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70268
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70268
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Kenshu Shimada, Mette Elstrup, Henrik Lauridsen, Trine Sørensen, and Mikael Siversson (2026)
Rediscovery of the associated gigantic vertebrae of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, from the Upper Miocene Gram Formation in Denmark, and comments on its paleobiological significance and the maximum possible size of the species.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 29(2):a27.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1674
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5872-otodus-megalodon-vertebrae-from-denmark
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1674.pdf
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Christian Klug, Merle Greif, Alexander Pohle, Michał Ginter, Michael I. Coates, Wahiba Bel Haouz, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Jonathan Pople, and Linda Frey (2026)
The oldest shark face—anatomy of the Devonian elasmobranch Phoebodus
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71(2): 399-430
doi:10.4202/app.01290.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012902025.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app71/app012902025.pdf
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Younis Menkara, Yi-Kai Tea, Anthony C. Gill & Simon Y.W. Ho (2026)
Integrative systematics reveal the deep evolutionary origin and familial placements of the wirrahs (Teleostei: Acanthistiidae: Acanthistius) and the toadstool grouper (Teleostei: Trachypomatidae fam. nov.: Trachypoma)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 224: 108672
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108672
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790326001429
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Aminiichthys gen. nov. (Aminiichthys leedsi (Woodward, 1895))
Goodichthys prettii gen. et. sp. nov.
Martin Ebert (2026)
Mesturidae Nursall, 1996 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Jurassic of England and Germany.
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 751-783.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.e193008
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/193008/
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James G. Napoli (2026)
Resolving the “ontogeny problem” in vertebrate paleontology
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.10105
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Benyamin P. Shidqi, Mathew Stewart, Gilbert J. Price & Julien Louys (2026)
Faunal and environmental continuity in Middle to Late Pleistocene Sumatra
Quaternary Science Reviews 389: 110148
doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110148
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126003574
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Shin Ikegami, Kanta Sugiura, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Yusuke Takeda, Jörg Mutterlose, Shintaro Sasaki, Neil H. Landman, Takahiro Harada, Kazuki Tainaka, Aya Kubota, Harufumi Nishida & Yasuhiro Iba (2026)
Squids radiated globally prior to the Cretaceous−Paleogene mass extinction
Geology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G54372.1
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Kiran Basava, Theiss Bendixen, Alexander Leonhard, Nicole Lauren George, Zoé Vanhersecke, Joshua Omotosho, Jennifer Mather & Michael Muthukrishna (2026)
Ecological not social factors explain brain size in cephalopods
iScience 29(7): 116324
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.116324
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226016998
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