Ptychotherates + Bicharracosaurus + Eosphorosuchus + Isodapedon + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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ABSTRACTS BOOKS:
Alison M Murray, Ilaria Paparella & Robert B. Holmes (2026)
Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology Annual Meeting Abstracts 2026.
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 14: 1-93
doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29415
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29415
Free pdf:
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29415/21476
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SICB 2026 Annual Meeting Abstracts Free
Integrative and Comparative Biology 66(Supplement 1): 1–325
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag017
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/66/Supplement_1/1/8653555
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Alicia Sanz-Royo, Juan Marín, Delphine Vettese, Antigone Uzunidis, Cyrielle Mathias, David Pleurdeau, Magali Fabre, Christophe Falguères, Christine Hatté, Qingfeng Shao, Camille Daujeard (2026)
Elucidating the use of rhinoceros teeth by Neanderthals: Between experiments and the fossil record
Journal of Human Evolution 214: 103829
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103829
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000230
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Carolin Röding, Antonio Profico, Michael Merkel & Katerina Harvati (2026)
A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany
Scientific Reports 16: 12696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48468-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-48468-5
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Antonio Rosas, Antonio García-Tabernero, José Antonio Alarcón, Juan Francisco Pastor, Tomás Torres-Medina and Tim Schüler (2026)
The Bilzingsleben E7 Mandible in a Comparative Framework: Implications for European Middle Pleistocene Human Evolution
Quaternary 9(2): 33
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat9020033
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/2/33
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Mirosław Masojć, Wioletta Nowaczewska, Clément Zanolli, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Grzegorz Michalec, Arina M. Khatsenovich, Katerina Douka, Rafał Sikora, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Bartosz Leszczyński, Andrzej Wróbel, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Józef Szykulski, Marcin Szmit & Enkhtaivan Namjilmaa (2026)
A Late Pleistocene human tooth from Khutul Usny Cave (FV 8), Mongolia – New evidence for early occupation of Eastern Central Asia by Homo sapiens
Quaternary Science Reviews 383: 109994
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109994
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126002039
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Jijia Sun, Ignacio de la Torre & Faysal Bibi (2026)
No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions
Nature Communications 17: 3575
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71648-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71648-w
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Jeremiah E. Scott (2026)
Size Disparity in Putative Primate Adaptive Radiations and Other Mammalian Clades
American Journal of Biological Anthropology 189(4): e70250
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70250
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70250
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.70250
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Annalisa Pietrobelli, Marine Cazenave, Alexander Synek, Sebastian Bachmann, Matthew M. Skinner, Tracy L. Kivell & Zewdi J. Tsegai (2026)
Integration of distal tibial shape and internal trabecular bone structure among catarrhine primates
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2069): 20260126 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0126
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Camille BADER, Mihály GASPARIK & Martin SEGESDI (2026)
Bone microanatomy and weight-bearing adaptations in the giant proboscidean Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829).
Geodiversitas 48(7): 127-143.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a7
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/7
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/geodiversitas2026v48a7-pdfa.pdf
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Rebecca J. Strauch, Alexander J. Werth, Carlos Mauricio Peredo & Mark D. Uhen (2026)
Toothed whales independently evolve specialized suction feeding without converging on skull shape.
PeerJ 14:e21119
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21119
https://peerj.com/articles/21119/
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Khalid Mahmood, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Steven E. Jasinski, Muhammad Adeeb Babar & Muhammad Akbar Khan (2026)
Hyaenodonta from the Middle to Late Miocene deposits of the Siwaliks of Pakistan with a brief account of Indian subcontinent hyaenodonts
PalZ (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00766-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00766-5
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M S Haji-Sheikh, M J Haji-Sheikh & V L Naples (2026)
Smilodon fatalis canine and alveolus junction gap: Using MicroCT scans and 3D Slicer
Integrative Organismal Biology, obag014
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obag014
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obag014/8653301
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Protatera salvadori sp. nov.
Jordi Agustí, Marc Furió, Pedro Piñero & Josep Quintana Cardona (2026)
Insectivores and rodents (Mammalia) from Ses Fontanelles (Eivissa, Pityusic Islands) and their implications for the Early Pliocene evolution of the endemic faunas in the Western Mediterranean islands
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 9
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09792-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09792-1
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Ryan Gorzek and Joshua T Trachtenberg (2026)
Comparative transcriptomics reveals differences in cortical cell type organization between metatherian and eutherian mammals
PNAS Nexus, pgag055
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag055
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag055/8654688
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Trevor H. Worthy, Gen A. Conway & Aaron B. Camens (2026)
New material of the toothed platypus Obdurodon insignis (Monotremata: Ornithorhynchidae) from the late Oligocene Pinpa Local Fauna at Billeroo Creek, South Australia
Australian Zoologist 45(1): AZ26011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/AZ26011
https://connectsci.au/az/article/45/1/AZ26011/272039/New-material-of-the-toothed-platypus-Obdurodon
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Stanley Somogyi, Jasper Y.J. Lee, Albert Chen, Wayne Liang, Gabriel S. Bever & Daniel J. Field (2026)
Hemiplasy helps explain high rates of apparent morphological convergence in neoavian birds
Current Biology 36: 1–10
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.050
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00370-2
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2826%2900370-2
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Wen Kang, Günter Wagner & Qi Zhou (2026)
Degeneration and adaptive evolution of digits in ratite birds
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msag101
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag101
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag101/8654147
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Huan Wang, Ping Fan, Tianlong Cai, Kai Zhang, Gang Song, Yanzhu Ji, Yalin Cheng, Yan Hao, Dezhi Zhang, Lei Wu, Chenxi Jia, Per Alström & Fumin Lei (2026)
Evolutionary and ecological processes drive the global diversity of the avian family Paridae
Avian Research 100381
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2026.100381
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716626000447
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Gorm Skouboe Raun, Colton Chase Coppock, Demchig Badamgarav, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar & Philip John Currie (2026)
Taxonomic reassessment of juvenile tyrannosaurine specimens from Asia reveal large biogeographic ranges in tyrannosaurids
Cretaceous Research 106412
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106412
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667126001011
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Victoria M. Arbour, Timon S. Bullard, and David C. Evans (2026)
An ornithomimosaur from the Campanian Cedar District Formation (Nanaimo Group) of Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada
FACETS 11: 1-7
doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0079
https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2023-0079
https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2371167126000360
Free pdf:
https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/epdf/10.1139/facets-2023-0079
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Yin Yalei, Wu Buyu, Pei Rui, Zhang Honggang, Zhang Xin, Shen Fengbin & Xing Xu (2026)
The anatomy of a troodontid tooth from the Late Cretaceous in Jiayin, Heilongjiang Province, China
ARPHA Preprints 7: e195849 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e195849
https://preprints.arphahub.com/article/195849/
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Ptychotherates bucculentus gen. et sp. nov.
Simba Srivastava & Sterling J. Nesbitt (2026)
A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic
Papers in Palaeontology 12(2): e70069
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70069
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70069
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70069
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Bicharracosaurus dionidei gen. et sp. nov.
Alexandra Reutter, José Luis Carballido, Guillermo José Windholz, Diego Pol & Oliver W.M. Rauhut (2026)
Bicharracosaurus dionidei, gen. et sp. nov., a new macronarian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Jurassic Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Argentina and the problematic early evolution of macronarians.
PeerJ 14:e20945
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20945
https://peerj.com/articles/20945/
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Qingyu Ma, Yubo Ma, Chao Tan, Jian Chen, Yu Lin, Ming Xiao, Hui Dai, Guangbiao Wei, Jordan C. Mallon, Jun Wang, Han Yao, Zhengting Zou and Hai Xing (2026)
First Report of a Hollow Cranial Crest in an Early-Diverging Duck-Billed Dinosaur, with Implications for Convergent Evolution of Acoustic Signaling
Biology 15(8): 615
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15080615
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/15/8/615
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Jinjuichnus procerus ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.
Jongyun Jung, Kyung Soo Kim, Lida Xing & Byung-Do Choi (2026)
New large pterosaur tracks from Korea and their implications on terrestrial behavior
Scientific Reports 16: 12363
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48019-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-48019-y
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Chris T Barker, Ethan Tulloch, Mark T Young, Darren Naish, Lai-Cheuk Leung, Kathryn Rankin & Neil J Gostling (2026)
Re-evaluation of the Wealden crocodyliform Koumpiodontosuchus Sweetman et al., 2015: new osteological and neuroanatomical data from micro-computed tomography resolves a phylogenetic dispute
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(4): zlag035
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag035
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/206/4/zlag035/8651884
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Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa gen. et sp. nov.
Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma, Alexander A. Ruebenstahl, Dalton L. Meyer & Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar (2026)
A short-snouted ‘sphenosuchian’ with unusual feeding anatomy demonstrates that ecological specialization occurred early in crocodylomorph evolution
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2069): 20260130
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0130
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Isodapedon varzealis gen. et sp. nov.
Jeung Hee Schiefelbein, Maurício Silva Garcia, Mariana Doering & Rodrigo Temp Müller (2026)
A new hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from a cynodont-dominated site (Upper Triassic) of southern Brazil
Royal Society Open Science 13(4): 260176
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.260176
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Ruizhe Jackevan Zhao (2026)
Body reconstruction and size estimation of plesiosaurs.
PeerJ 14: e21146
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21146
https://peerj.com/articles/21146/
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Charles W. Helm, Andrew S. Carr, Hayley C. Cawthra, #oma Daqm, Jan C. De Vynck, Mark G. Dixon, Steve Kunta, /uce Nǂamce, Willo M. Stear, Clive R. Thompson & Jan A. Venter (2026)
An update on Pleistocene tortoise tracks on South Africa’s Cape south coast
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2026.10078
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Lucy E. Roberts & Jason J. Head (2026)
Evolution of the reptile spine reveals independent trajectories to axial skeletal complexity in amniotes
Nature Communications (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72071-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72071-x
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Robert R. Reisz, Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, David Mazierski, Xu Chu, Joseph J. Bevitt, Yao-Chang Lee, Pei-Yu Huang, Xiaobo Li & Jun Chen (2026)
Mummified early Permian reptile reveals ancient amniote breathing apparatus
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10307-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10307-y
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Corinne L. Mensforth, John A. Long, Joseph J. Bevitt & Alice M. Clement (2026)
New data on the sarcopterygian Koharalepis jarviki (Tetrapodomorpha; Canowindridae) from the Late Devonian of Antarctica, revealed via synchrotron and neutron tomography
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 14: 1765271
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1765271
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1765271/full
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Nick Peoples, Michalis Mihalitsis & Peter C. Wainwright (2026)
Habitat-specific temporal variation in the pace of fish diversification
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(16): e2533611123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533611123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2533611123
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Sérgio P. Ávila, Patrícia Madeira, Mohamed Amine Doukani, Ana Hipólito, Gonçalo Castela Ávila, Sandra Marques, Romain Vullo and Werner Schwarzhans (2026)
First Evidence of Lanternfishes from the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) of Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago: NE Atlantic Ocean): Paleoecology and Paleobiodiversity
Quaternary 9(2): 31
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat9020031
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/2/31
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Jack Stack, Ben T. Kligman & Maranda L. Stricklin (2026)
A bristle-nosed Jurassic ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) bears true dermal odontodes on its snout
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70152
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70152
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70152
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Giuseppe Marramà, Alberto Collareta, Giulia Bosio, Giovanni Bianucci, Elisa Malinverno, Claudio Di Celma, Francesco Nobile, Luca Pellegrino, Alí Altamirano Sierra, Mario Urbina, Igor M. Villa, Jaime A. Villafaña, Alice Zanda & Giorgio Carnevale (2026)
The earliest Neogene vertebrate assemblage of the Pisco Basin, Peru
Journal of South American Earth Sciences 106080
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2026.106080
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089598112600132X
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Felipe O. Cerezer, Antonin Machac, Jan Smyčka, Iñigo Rubio-López, Maxime Quétin & David Storch (2026)
Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics.
PLoS Biol 24(4): e3003730.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003730
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003730
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Barbara Carrapa, Mark T. Clementz, Nicolás J. Cosentino, Pedro DiNezio, Pam Vervoort, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Jordan T. Abell, Dominik Hülse, Priscilla R. Martinez & Carolina S. Gutstein (2026)
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene
Communications Earth & Environment 7: 335
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03457-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s43247-026-03457-4
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Rafael Spiekermann, Philippe Moisan, Sebastian Voigt, Benjamin Bomfleur, André Jasper & Dieter Uhl (2026)
Charcoalified wood remains from the Madygen Fossil-Lagerstätte (SW Kyrgyzstan): Evidence of wildfire in the Triassic (Ladinian–Carnian) mid-northern latitudes
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 105586
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2026.105586
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666726000886
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Borhan Bagherpour, Omid H. Ardakani, Daniel Herwartz & Stephen E. Grasby (2026)
Habitability at the edge of the redox boundary during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction
Scientific Reports 16: 12469
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-47893-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-47893-w
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Editorial
Pedro L. Godoy, Daniel M. Casali, Julie Meachen, Adriana López-Arbarello & Michael D. D'emic (2026)
The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2638040
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2638040
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2638040
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2638040
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José Adilson Dias Cavalcanti, Marilda Santana da Silva, Carlos Schobbenhaus, Hildor José Seer, Lúcia Castanheira de Moraes & Marcos Cristovão Baptista (2026)
Assessment of paleontological geosites of Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks 100280
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgeop.2026.100280
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2577444126000316