Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
Recent abstracts books:
XII Congresso Nacional de Geologia (Portugal)
https://12cng.skyros-congressos.pt/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Livro_de_Resumos_Final_HR.pdf
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5th International Congress on Stratigraphy STRATI 2026 Abstract Volume
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Paleontologia em Destaque 41 n. especial (2026): Resumos do XXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia
https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/paleodest/issue/view/157/98
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Laurent PALLAS (2026)
Mandibular evidence for the presence of extant Colobini in the African fossil record.
Geodiversitas 48(16): 335-360.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a16.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/16
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Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Fabien Knoll, Dany Azar, George Kachacha, Josep Sanjuan, Ebru Albayrak & Pablo Peláez-Campomanes (2026)
New insights into the genus Byzantinia (Cricetodontinae, Rodentia) from the Late Miocene of Lebanon.
PeerJ 14:e21543
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21543
https://peerj.com/articles/21543/
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Rafal P. Piprek, Izabela Rams-Pociecha and Paulina C. Mizia
Cranial Appendages in Ruminants: Diversity, Evolution, Development, and Molecular Basis of Horns, Pronghorns, Antlers, and Ossicones
Biology 15(14): 1210
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15141210
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/15/14/1210
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Bartoncetus gen. nov.
Henk Jan van Vliet, Jonas Hakkens, Theo M. Paijmans, Charles J. Underwood, Ivo Verheijen, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, David J. Ward, Dirk K. Munsterman & Jelle W.F. Reumer (2026)
Bartoncetus wanklyni, new genus of a small dorudontine whale from the Bartonian of England; a lost skull and a forgotten postcranial skeleton
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101201
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101201
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787826000416
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Teresa Calderón, Andrea Cuccu, Jorge Morales, Roberto Rozzi, Beatriz Azanza & Daniel DeMiguel (2026)
Homogeneous life histories of Anchitherium in the face of Miocene climate changes
BMC Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02698-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02698-1
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Simon D Schowanek, Douglas Sheil, Lydia Beaudrot, Pierre Dupont, Santiago Espinosa, Vittoria Estienne, Julia E Fa, Jonas Geldmann, Patrick A Jansen, Steig E Johnson, Francesco Rovero, Fernanda Santos, Asunción Semper-Pascual, Andrea Fernanda Vallejo Vargas, Jorge A. Ahumada, Emmanuel Akampurira, Rajan Amin, Robert Bitariho, Adeline Fayolle, Davy Fonteyn, Ilaria Greco, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Matthew Scott Luskin, David Kenfack, Emanuel H. Martin, Eustrate Uzabaho, Cédric Vermeulen, and Richard Bischof (2026)
Predictors of extinction risk in large tropical forest mammals: From global to local.
Science Advances 12(29): eaeb7543
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7543
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7543
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Parasilvia alexandrae gen. et sp. nov.
V. V. Bulanova, F. F. Shaymardanov, and M. L. Papernyi (2026)
A New Dromasaur (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Upper Permian of the South Cis-Ural Region
Paleontological Journal 60(2): 178-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030126600812
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030126600812
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Thomas W Dudgeon and David C Evans (2026)
Ontogenetic changes in the cranial biomechanics of a crested hadrosaurid dinosaur
Evolution, qpag135
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag135
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag135/8741437
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Christian A. Meyer, Jose Hugo Heymann, Edwin Chuca Ibarra, Eddy Laura Flores & Lara Sciscio (2026)
Digging Sauropods: excavation behaviour or evidence for nest building? An example from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation (Maragua, Bolivia)
Fossil Record 29(2): 519-532.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.198794
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/198794/
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Ryuji Takasaki, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Anthony R. Fiorillo, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Gregory F. Funston
Gastrolith shape as an indicator of digestive function and its implications for dinosaurian digestive strategies
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.10112
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Kyuseon Jang, Gyumin Park, Seok-Woo Hong, Chang-Gi Lee, Eric Woods, Tim M Schwarz, Maïtena Dumont, Boryung Yoo, Jiwon Jeong, Sungho Lee, Baptiste Gault, Christina Scheu, Yuong-Nam Lee, Sungjin Lee & Se-Ho Kim (2026)
Near-Atomic-Scale Characterization of Diagenetic Signatures in a Fossil Dinosaur Tooth by Atom Probe Tomography
Microscopy and Microanalysis 32(4): ozag060
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozag060
https://academic.oup.com/mam/article/32/4/ozag060/8739003
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Moussa Masrour, Jesús Herrero Gascón, Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor & Félix Pérez Lorente (2026)
La rastrillada semiplantígrada 3.2AAI1 del macroyacimiento jurásico de Imilchil (Alto Atlas Central, Marruecos). Consideraciones sobre la posición del metatarso de los dinosaurios terópodos
Geogaceta 79: 79-82 (in Spanish)
doi: https://doi.org/10.55407/geogaceta117017
https://sge.usal.es/archivos/geogacetas/geo79/geo79_p_79_82.pdf
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Bailey M. Weiss, Kathleen N. Dollman, Jennifer Botha & Jonah N. Choiniere (2026)
A revised anatomical and osteohistological description of ‘Erythrochampsa’ longipes (Broom, 1904) and its implications on early crocodyliform taxonomy and evolution
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 24(2): 2690993
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2026.2690993
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2026.2690993
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2026.2690993
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Thainara Aparecida Divina Arruda de Paula, Musa Maria Nogueira-Gomes, Carlos Roberto dos AnjosCandeiro, Kamila Luisa Nogueira Bandeira, Lucy Gomes de Souza, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Joana de Paula Sanchez, Juliano Sousa Marques Peixoto, Pedro Henrique Barros Pacheco & Paulo Victor Luiz Gomes da Costa Costa Pereira (2026)
Crocodilian remains from Bauru Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Goiás State, Brazil: a correlation with the records of Minas Gerais and São Paulo and geological heritage importance.
Boletim Paranaense De Geociências 84(2), 20–32.
Doi: https://doi.org/10.5380/bpg.v84i2.104592
https://revistas.ufpr.br/geociencias/article/view/104592
Free pdf:
https://revistas.ufpr.br/geociencias/article/view/104592/77559
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Tametara mirim gen. et sp. nov.
Tiago R. Simões, Gabriela Sobral, Simone Macrì, Roy Ebel, Thiago S. Fachini, Agustín G. Martinelli, William R. Nava, Giovanna M. X. Paixão, Luis M. Chiappe, Nicolas Di-Poï & Annie S. Hsiou (2026)
Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10809-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10809-9
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Albadris smithsoni gen. et sp. nov.
Theodore B. HERRING, Francis M. ELLIOTT, Thomas J. CHALLANDS, Ian B. BUTLER & Stephen L. BRUSATTE (2026)
Late Carboniferous tetrapods from the Scottish Lower Coal Measures (Langsettian: Bashkirian) and a new nectridean
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691026101042
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Daniel Gonçalves, Bernard Delsahut, Christopher Hamann & Arnaud Rebillard (2026)
New palaeontological remains from the early Permian Réalmont Basin (Tarn, France): implications for late-Variscan palaeobiogeography and Progyrolepis taxonomy (Actinopterygii).
Fossil Record 29(2): 469-497
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.197176
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/197176/
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Magwayodus boboi gen. et sp. nov.
Sylvain Adnet, Xavier Valentin, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Aung Naing Soe, Chit Sein & Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2026)
Upper Eocene elasmobranch assemblages from Myanmar: Evidence for the easternmost dispersal pathways across the Neotethys
Palaeoworld 201169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2026.201169
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X26001046
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Rok Gašparič, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Martin Mazuch, Martin Košťák, Tomaž Hitij, Martina Kočová Veselská, Tomáš Kočí & Zoltán Barkaszi (2026)
An Early Miocene regurgitalite containing basking shark remains from Slovenia: insight into cetorhinid paleoecology of the Central Paratethys
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 839-849.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.203557
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/203557/
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Baran Karapunar, Andrzej S. Wolniewicz, Carlo Romano, Péter Ozsvárt, Heriberto Rochín-Bañaga, Evelyn Kustatscher, Stella Z. Buchwald, Francesca Galasso, Donald Davis, Adriana López-Arbarello, Herwig Prinoth, Massimo Bernardi & William J. Foster (2026)
New insights into the extinction and recovery of marine vertebrates across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event in the Dolomites, Southern Alps, Italy
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2685335
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2685335
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2685335
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2685335
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Rachel Souza Ferreira, Jens J. Ringelberg, Colin Hughes, Eduardo Arlé, Friederike J. R. Wölke, Kyle W. Tomlinson, Renske E. Onstein
The complex interaction between mammalian herbivores, climate, soil and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms
New Phytologist (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71376
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71376
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Harshita Bhatia & Gaurav Srivastava (2026)
Monsoon and vegetational shifts on the Indian plate since 66 Ma evidenced by megafossils
Discover Geoscience 4(1): 212
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44288-026-00559-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44288-026-00559-6
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Taro Higuchi, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Wing-Le Chan & Ryouta O'ishi (2026)
Enhanced Orbital-Forcing Sensitivity of Northern High Latitude Temperatures in the Late Cretaceous Relative to Modern Geography
Geophysical Research Letters 53(14): e2025GL120337
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120337
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL120337
Free pdf:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL120337