Sinolagomys guchengensis + Stegodon + Ceratosauria body size + Ruopodosaurus + Mesozoic marine reptiles + Ichthyostega + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
R.I.M. Dunbar (2025)
Thermal constraints on Middle Pleistocene hominin brain evolution and cognition
Journal of Archaeological Science 179: 106226
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106226
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000755
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Axel G. Ekström, Peter Gärdenfors, William D. Snyder, Daniel Friedrichs, Robert C. McCarthy, Melina Tsapos, Claudio Tennie, David S. Strait, Jens Edlund & Steven Moran (2025)
Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins
Human Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09487-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-025-09487-9
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Marc Furió, Shubham Pal, Pedro Piñero & Jordi Agustí (2025)
Sivatupaia ramnagarensis and the origin of the subfamily Crocidurinae (Soricidae, Mammalia)
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.39
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Hugo Bert, Loic Costeur, Sergei Lazarev, Georg Schulz, Davit Vasilyan & Olivier Maridet (2025)
An almost complete cranium of Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the early Pliocene of the Jradzor site, Armenia
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 19
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00357-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00357-6
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Sinolagomys guchengensis sp. nov.
WANG Ban-Yue, QIU Zhu-Ding & LI Lu (2025)
Early Miocene micromammal fossils from Gucheng in Linxia, Gansu, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250417
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250417
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Víctor Adrián Pérez-Crespo, Gilberto Pérez-Roldan, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Edith Cienfuegos-Alvarado & Francisco J. Otero (2025)
A calf mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from Rancho Carabanchel, San Luis Potosí, México and its feeding habits
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00721-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00721-4
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Christine Hertler, Alexandra A.E. van der Geer, Mika Rizki Puspaningrum, Jan-Olaf Reschke, Iwan Pramesti Anwar, Ericson Hölzchen (2025)
Stegodon SEA-crossing: Swim, Shrink, and Disperse
Earth History and Biodiversity 100026
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100026
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000103
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Lívia Roese-Miron & Leonardo Kerber (2025)
Ontogeny of a Brazilian Late Triassic Traversodontid (Cynodontia, Cynognathia): Anatomical and Paleoecological Implications
Journal of Morphology 286(4): e70047
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70047
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70047
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70047
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Christiana W. Garros, Mark J. Powers, Aaron D. Dyer & Philip J. Currie (2025)
Osteohistological analysis of metatarsals reveals new information on pathology and life history of troodontids from the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14262
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14262
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14262
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Enzo E. Seculi Pereyra, Damian E. Pérez & Ariel H. Méndez (2025)
Macroevolutionary trends in Ceratosauria body size: insights of phylogenetic comparative methods
BMC Ecology and Evolution 25:32
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02374-y
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02374-y
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Thomas D. Carr (2025)
Tyrannosaurus rex: An endangered species.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a16
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1337
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5499-t-rex-endangered-species
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1337.pdf
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Ruopodosaurus clava ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.
Victoria M. Arbour, Martin G. Lockley, Eamon Drysdale, Roy Rule & Charles W. Helm (2025)
A new thyreophoran ichnotaxon from British Columbia, Canada confirms the presence of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the mid Cretaceous of North America
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2451319
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319
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Evan T. Saitta, Vincent Bonhomme, Mitchell Lukens, Daniel Vidal, Nicholas R. Longrich, Dean R. Richmond & Maximilian T. Stockdale (2025)
The function and Evolution of Stegosaur Osteoderms and Hypothesized Sexual Dimorphism in Hesperosaurus
bioRxiv 2025.04.10.648273 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273v1
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K. Usami & M. O. Kubo (2025)
In-vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25659
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25659
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25659
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Nicolas Séon, Peggy Vincent, Lene Liebe Delsett, Eve Poulallion, Guillaume Suan, Christophe Lécuyer, Aubrey Jane Roberts, François Fourel, Sylvain Charbonnier and Romain Amiot (2025)
Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation strategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.2
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Michael J. Polcyn, John A. Robbins, Anne S. Schulp, Johan Lindgren and Louis L. Jacobs (2025)
The Evolution of Mosasaurid Foraging Behavior Through the Lens of Stable Carbon Isotopes
Diversity 17(4): 291
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17040291
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/4/291
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Catherine R.C. Strong, Peter J. Bishop, John R. Hutchinson & Stephanie E. Pierce (2025)
Digital volumetric modeling reveals unique body plan experimentation in the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega
iScience 112486
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112486
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225007473
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Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, Struan Henderson, Sophie Fasey & Sam Giles (2025)
Diversification dynamics of the Palaeozoic actinopterygian radiation
bioRxiv 2025.04.14.648759 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.14.648759
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648759v1
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Xiangdong Wang, Stephen E. Grasby, Peter A. Cawood, He Zhao, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Makram Hedhli, Zhengyi Lyu, Guangyi Sun & Fang Hao (2025)
Photic-zone euxinia had a major role in the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary mass extinction
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 283
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02260-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02260-x
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Zi-Heng Li, Timothy M. Lenton, Fei-Fei Zhang, Zhong-Qiang Chen & Stuart J. Daines (2025)
Earth system instability amplified biogeochemical oscillations following the end-Permian mass extinction
Nature Communications 16: 3703
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59038-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59038-0
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Daniel GONÇALVES, Vincent LUCCISANO, Arnaud REBILLARD, Antoine LOGGHE, Stanislav ŠTAMBERG & J.-Sébastien STEYER (2025)
New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(11): 191-217
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a11
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/11
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/comptes-rendus-palevol2025v24a11.pdf
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Hector K. Garza, Elizabeth J. Catlos, Thomas J. Lapen, Julia A. Clarke & Michael E. Brookfield (2025)
New U-Pb constraints and geochemistry of the East Kirkton Quarry, Scotland: Implications for early tetrapod evolution in the Carboniferous.
PLoS ONE 20(4): e0321714.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321714
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0321714
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Valerian J.P. Jésus, Octávio Mateus, Jesper Milàn, and Lars B. Clemmensen (2025)
Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a18
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1423
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5520-triassic-greenland-vertebrates
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1423.pdf
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Felipe de la Parra and Roger Benson (2025)
Diversification dynamics of vegetation during the Cenozoic in the Neotropics: a palynological perspective from Colombia
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.62
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Lisa Merkens, Tim Anders, Wolfgang Traylor, Hervé Bocherens & Thomas Hickler (2025)
A simple climate-driven semi-mechanistic vegetation model can explain the pan-Asian extent of the glacial mammoth steppe
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 112962
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112962
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225002470
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Mikael A. Manninen, Roope O. Kaaronen, Jussi T. Eronen & Miikka Tallavaara (2025)
The effect of the 8.2 ka cold event on Fennoscandian hunter-gatherer metapopulation inferred from climatic, environmental, and archaeological signals
Quaternary Environments and Humans 100065
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100065
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295023652500009X
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Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Sanja Panovska, Raven Garvey, Michael W Liemohn, Natalia Ganjushkina, Austin Brenner, Ilya Usoskin, Mikhail Balikhin, Daniel T Welling
Wandering of the auroral oval 41,000 years ago
Science Advances 11(16): eadq7275
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq7275
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq7275
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Hugo Bal-García, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez & Ramón Fábregas Valcarce (2025)
Landscape and subsistence in NW Iberia during the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS3): Faunal analysis of Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Galicia, Spain)
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64: 105149
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105149
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25001828
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Santiago A Catalano, Ignacio Escapa, Kelsey D Pugh, Ashley S Hammond, Pablo Goloboff & Sergio Almécija (2025)
PlaceMyFossils: An Integrative Approach to Analyze and Visualize the Phylogenetic Placement of Fossils Using Backbone Trees
Systematic Biology, syaf025
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf025
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syaf025/8115461