Microraptor feathers + Deinosuchus + Priohybodus + Rancho La Brea fossils + Cumberland Bone Cave Local Fauna + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Passing this information along:
The World at the Time of Messel: Back to the Future?
The Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt am Main, Germany, cordially invites you to the international conference, which will take place from December 8th to 12th, 2025. The conference marks three significant anniversaries surrounding the Konservat-Lagerstätte known as the Messel Pit:
* 30 years UNESCO World Heritage Status of the Messel Pit Fossil Site (1995)
* 50 years of Senckenberg excavations at the Messel Pit (1975)
* 150 years since the first fossil was discovered at Messel (December 1875)
While the conference celebrates Messel and its history of study, it will more broadly look at the entire Eocene world in its broadest sense, from geology to paleontology to climate research, with a focus on terrestrial ecosystems.
Seven main scientific topics were selected for the conference:
Taphonomy
Life history and Reproduction
Organismic diversity
Interspecific interactions
Sensory systems
Biogeography and migration
Terrestrial paleoclimate
In parallel to the scientific sessions, there will be an accompanying programm including celebrations, public discussions, fieldtrip to the Messel Pit and a workshop on Messel Research.
We hope to see many of you in Frankfurt (and its traditional Christmas Market ;) )
Further information here: https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/senckenberg-research-institute-natural-history-museum-frankfurt/division-messel-research-mammalogy/messel2025-conference/
Sincerely,
Thomas Lehmann
for the organising committee
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Justin A. Ledogar, Stefano Benazzi, Amanda L. Smith, Paul C. Dechow, Qian Wang, Rebecca W. Cook, Dimitri Neaux, Callum F. Ross, Ian R. Grosse, Barth W. Wright, Gerhard W. Weber, Craig Byron, Stephen Wroe and David S. Strait (2025)
Bite force production and the origin of Homo
Royal Society Open Science 12(4): 241879
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241879
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241879
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241879
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Alexis S. ULUUTKU & Bernard A. WOOD (2025)
Heirs without descendants, but not without consequences
in HUBLIN J.-J., MOUNIER A. & TEYSSANDIER N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 23(12): 219-228
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a12
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/12
Free pdf:
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Nicole Torres-Tamayo, Markus Bastir, Caroline VanSickle, Antonio García-Tabernero, Marco de la Rasilla & Antonio Rosas (2025)
New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)
Journal of Human Evolution 203: 103666
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103666
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000193
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Zandra Fagernäs, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Gaudry Troché, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Tura Khujageldiev, Redzhep Kurbanov, Jesper V. Olsen, Mikkel Winther Pedersen & Frido Welker (2025)
Cleaning the dead: Optimized decontamination enhances palaeoproteomic analyses of a Pleistocene hominin tooth from Khudji, Tajikistan
Journal of Archaeological Science 106228
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106228
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000779
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M.C. McDowell, R. Sim, A. Sculthorpe, B.W. Brook & C.N. Johnson (2025)
Late Pleistocene to Holocene mammal faunal change on a small Landbridge Island in Bass Strait, South-Eastern Australia, and its implications for future reintroductions
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.64
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Megan Malherbe, Nicole Webb, Magdalena Palisson-Kramer, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, David R. Braun, Martin Haeusler & Frances Forrest (2025)
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials
Journal of Human Evolution 203: 103681
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103681
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842500034X
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Cheng-Han Sun, Yi-Yang Cho, Yi-Lu Liaw, Chun-Hsiang Chang & Cheng-Hsiu Tsai (2025)
Rediscovering Mammoths in Taiwan: The Type Specimens of Mammuthus armeniacus taiwanicus (Proboscidea, Elephantidae)
Mammal Study 50(3):
doi: https://doi.org/10.3106/ms2024-0028
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Franka Gaiser, Charlotte Müller, Paula Phan, Gregor Mathes & Manuel J. Steinbauer (2025)
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus.
Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e135081
doi: https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.18.135081
https://biogeography.pensoft.net/article/135081/
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Leonardo M. Carneiro, Hugo Bampi & Sérgio Lages (2025)
Testing the occlusal relations between isolated upper and lower molars of an Eocene metatherian (Mammalia): The case of Xenocynus crypticus
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(2): e20240861
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520240861
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/mKnMyBgwpYPSBrgkZrwVbmN/abstract/?lang=en
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Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, Anthony Dosseto, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, Richard Lewis & Scott Hocknull (2025)
Megafauna mobility: Assessing the foraging range of an extinct macropodid from central eastern Queensland, Australia.
PLoS ONE 20(4): e0319712
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319712
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319712
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Michelangelo Bisconti, Paola Monegatti, Gianluca Raineri, Giandonato Tartarelli & Giorgio Carnevale (2025)
Taphonomy and whale-fall analysis of the Tortonian baleen whales from the Stirone river, Emilia Romagna (northern Italy)
Frontiers in Earth Science 13: 1558428
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1558428
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1558428/full
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Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez and David Lentink (2025)
The feather’s multi-functional structure across nano to macro scales inspires hierarchical design
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 22(225): 20240776
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0776
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2024.0776
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsif.2024.0776
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Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu & Michael Pittman (2025)
New information on the hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae)
BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 37
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0
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Chan-Gyu Yun (2025)
Jaw biomechanics of Troodontidae and their implications for the palaeobiology of this lineage of bird-like theropod dinosaurs
Lethaia 58(1):
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.1.3
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.1.3
Free pdf:
https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.1.3
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Siripat Kaikaew, Suravech Suteethorn & Anusuya Chinsamy (2025)
Novel report of an osteogenic tumor in a late Jurassic Mamenchisaurid from Thailand
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14266
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14266
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14266
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Lijia Zhang, Zixiong Cao & Qi Zhao (2025)
Deep learning-aided segmentation combined with finite element analysis reveals a more natural biomechanic of dinosaur fossil
Scientific Reports 15: 13964
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99131-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-99131-4
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Jules D. Walter, Tobias Massonne, Ana Laura S. Paiva, Jeremy E. Martin, Massimo Delfino & Márton Rabi (2025)
Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution
Communications Biology 8: 611
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07653-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07653-4
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Aritra Biswas, Avrajjal Ghosh and Madhura Agashe (2025)
In ‘hot’ pursuit: exploring the evolutionary ecology of labial pits in boas and pythons
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2045): 20250199
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0199
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0199
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.0199
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Brent Adrian, Heather F. Smith & Andrew T. McDonald (2025)
A revised turtle assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation (New Mexico, North America) with evolutionary and paleobiostratigraphic implications.
PeerJ 13: e19340
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19340
https://peerj.com/articles/19340/
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Alberto Cabezuelo-Hernández, Carlos de Miguel Chaves, Francisco Ortega & Adán Pérez-García (2025)
Pathological vertebrae in the holotype of Paludidraco multidentatus (Sauropterygia, Simosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of El Atance (Central Spain).
Fossil Record 28(1): 133-145.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e148714
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/148714/
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Skye McDavid & Henry Thomas (2024)
The putative pterosaur tracks at Gunston Hall (Potomac Group, Cretaceous of Virginia) are examples of erosion
The Mosasaur 14: 13-21
doi: https://10.5281/zenodo.14991720
https://zenodo.org/records/14991720
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Estevan Eltink, Kelly Roberta da Silva, Marco Aurélio Gallo de França, Débora Melo Ferrer de Morais, Matías Soto & Christopher J. Duffin (2025)
Morphology and paleoecology of a hybodontiform with serrated teeth, Priohybodus arambourgi, from the Late Jurassic of northeastern Brazil
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25671
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25671
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25671
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Michael R. O'Shea and Dana J. Ehret (2024)
The occurrence of the shark genus Trigonotodus from the Eocene of Monmouth County New Jersey
The Mosasaur 14: 1-7
https://10.5281/zenodo.11283544
https://zenodo.org/records/11283544
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Tomáš Přikryl, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Oriol Oms, Pablo Rodríguez-Salgado, Elena Moreno Ribas, Jordi Agustí, Gerard Campeny & Bruno Bruno Gómez de Soler (2025)
Early Pliocene barb (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Barbinae) from The Camp Dels Ninots Site (Spain)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia d Stratigrafia 131(2):
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/26982
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/26982
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Val J. P. Syverson and Donald Prothero (2025)
Reevaluating climate change responses in Rancho La Brea birds and mammals: new dates and new data
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.37
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Ralph E. Eshelman, Christopher Bell, Russel W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken Jr., Charles B. Withnell, Simon G. Scarpetta, Helen F. James, Stephen J. Godfrey, Jim I. Mead, John-Paul Hodnett & Frederick V. Grady (2025)
Middle Pleistocene Cumberland Bone Cave Local Fauna, Allegany County, Maryland: A Systematic Revision and Paleoecological Interpretation of the Irvingtonian, Middle Appalachians, USA
Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 108: 1-321
doi: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.28597193
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Sydney K. Decker, Kaiya L. Provost & Bryan C. Carstens (2025)
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates
Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e139911.
doi: https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.18.139911
https://biogeography.pensoft.net/article/139911/
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Laura P. A. Mulvey, Mark C. Nikolic, Bethany J. Allen, Tracy A. Heath & Rachel C. M. Warnock (2025)
From fossils to phylogenies: exploring the integration of paleontological data into Bayesian phylogenetic inference
Paleobiology 51(1): 214-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.47[Opens in a new window]
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James I. Kirkland, M. Ryan King & Kevin G. Bylund (2025)
Revisiting the Cretaceous Mancos Group in Utah—problems, previous methods, and new perspectives on a world-class Cretaceous marine section
Geology of the Intermountain West 12: 75-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v12.pp75-154
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/153
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Armelle Ballian, Maud J. M. Meijers, Isabelle Cojan, Damien Huyghe, Miguel Bernecker, Katharina Methner, Mattia Tagliavento, Jens Fiebig & Andreas Mulch (2025)
Middle Miocene climate evolution in the northern Mediterranean region (Digne–Valensole basin, SE France).
Climate of the Past 21: 841–856
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-841-2025
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/841/2025/
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Stephany Potze, Stevie L. Morley, and Cornelia A. Clarke (2025)
Preparation of asphalt-preserved fossils: solvent selection and improved preparation technique with a focus on Rancho La Brea, California, USA.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a20.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1418
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5500-asphaltic-preparation-methods
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Michael E. Brookfield, Elizabeth J. Catlos and Hector K. Garza (2025)
Reconciling Divergent Ages for the Oldest Recorded Air-Breathing Land Animal, the Millipede, Pneumodesmus newmani Wilson & Anderson, 2004: A Review of the Geology and Ages of the Basal Old Red Sandstone Stonehaven Group (Silurian–Early Devonian), Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Fossil Studies 3(2): 6
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3020006
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/2/6
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Free book:
Geology of the Netherlands (Second Edition)
Edited by: Johan Veen, Geert-Jan Vis, Jan Jager and Theo Wong
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048554973/html