Tetonius varleyorum + Uragasaurus + Mesetasaurus + Carinasquama + Leolepis + Pteronisculus luopingensis + more free pdfs

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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

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Not yet mentioned abstracts book (some vertpaleo items):

2025 Canadian Paleontology Conference, November 21-22; Proceedings No. 20

https://www.gacpd.ca/_files/ugd/49df0d_ee6a1df3ebd344a9b071b30bdf565e2c.pdf

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Mark Hubbe & Katerina Harvati (2026)

Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo

Nature Communications 17: 5625

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74739-w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74739-w

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Alicia BLASI-TOCCACCELI, Guillaume DAVER, Tiphaine BRUSSE, Tea JASHASHVILI, Jean-Luc VOISIN, Laurent PALLAS, Mathieu DOMALAIN, Jérôme SURAULT, Blade Engda REDAE & Jean-Renaud BOISSERIE (2026)

New associated postcranial remains from the Shungura Formation (Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia) provide insights on behaviors and ecology of early Homo

Comptes Rendus Palevol 25(12): 207-247

doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a12

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/12

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Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Laura Martín-Francés, Hila May, Israel Hershkovitz & Nohemi Sala (2026)

A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-58670-0

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-58670-0

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Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Karina V. Chichkoyan, Arturo Jaimes, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Oscar E. Wilson, Kévin Le Verger, Dimila Mothé, Diego Vargas, Andrés E. Reyes-Céspedes, Lautaro Hilbert, Rodolfo Sánchez, Nohé Gilson, Olivier Tombret, Astrid Bauville, Marine Libot, Alfredo A. Carlini, Antoine Zazzo & Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra (2026)

Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America

Quaternary Science Reviews 389: 110154

doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110154

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912600363X

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Adya P. Singh, Ramesh R. Chavan & Yoon Soo Kim (2026)

Discoveries of Most Ancient Wooden Objects (MAWOs) Suggest That Early Hominins Were Skilled Wood Workers: A Brief Review of Prominent Case Studies

Forests 17(7): 795

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/f17070795

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/17/7/795

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Laura E. Hunter, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caley M. Orr, Biren A. Patel & Zeresenay Alemseged (2026)

Evolutionary morphology of the haplorhine hamate

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70272

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70272

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70272

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Tetonius varleyorum sp. nov.

Parker D. Rhinehart, Robert L. Anemone & K. Christopher Beard (2026)

A diverse new omomyid primate fauna from the early Eocene of southern Wyoming with implications for interpreting macroevolutionary patterns among anaptomorphines

Journal of Human Evolution 218: 103867

doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103867

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000618

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Nia Brice, Coby Huizenga & Chris J. Law (2026)

Scaling and ecomorphology of lagomorph body shape and appendicular skeleton

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70278

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70278

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70278

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Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, M. Dolores Marin-Monfort, Martina Demuro, Gustavo Gómez, Ricardo Bonini, Jonathan Bellinzoni, Sara García-Morato, María A. Gutiérrez, Fernando J. Fernández, M. Teresa Alberdi, Marta Moreno-García, Esperanza Cerdeño, Claudia I. Montalvo, Lee J. Arnold, Pamela Steffan & Jose L. Prado (2026)

Smilodon sabertooth bite marks, new perspectives on prey-predator models in South American Pleistocene

BMC Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-026-02551-7

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-026-02551-7

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E. Miguel Díaz de León-Muñoz, Gema Siliceo & Gabriel S. Ferreira (2026)

Insights into the feeding behavior of Magericyon anceps (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the Late Miocene of Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain) using finite element analysis

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 34

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09827-1

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09827-1

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Jonas Wilhelmus Petrus HAKKENS, Jelle W. F. REUMER & Anne S. SCHULP (2026)

On the identity of historical specimen TM 8501 and the taxonomy of North American Basilosauridae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla, Archaeoceti).

Geodiversitas 48(14): 287-317.

doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a14

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/14

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Leonardo Souza Lobo, Javier N. Gelfo and Sergio A. K. de Azevedo (2026)

Increasing until extinction: understanding Macraucheniidae body-mass evolutionary history

Paleobiology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.10108

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/increasing-until-extinction-understanding-macraucheniidae-bodymass-evolutionary-history/B4E55C1AB8A683105B9BD79999F97D44

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Shin-Ichi Fujiwara & Hiroaki Saito (2026)

From sagittal to sprawled: Clavicular co-option and the evolution of forelimb mechanics in talpines

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70205

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70205

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70205

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Z Jack Tseng, Qian Li & Suyin Ting (2026)

Brawn before bite in endemic Asian eutherian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

eLife 14: RP108917.

doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108917.4

https://elifesciences.org/articles/108917

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Lorenzo Marchetti, Antoine Logghe, Arnaud Rebillard, Mark J. MacDougall & Jörg Fröbisch (2026)

The evolutionary significance of the earliest cloacal opening in Synapsida

iScience 29(8): 116752

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.116752

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226021309

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J W Oyston, J T Thorson, A Knapp, R D Marek & R N Felice (2026)

Structural Equation Modelling Reveals How Allometry Shapes Integration in Avian Cranial Evolution

Integrative and Comparative Biology, icag106

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag106

https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icb/icag106/8723922

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Jinseok Park, Sang-im Lee & Piotr G Jablonski (2026)

Convergent acquisition of a specialized feeding strategy: flush-pursue foraging in birds

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): blag032

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blag032

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/148/3/blag032/8722652

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Gerald Mayr & Margaret E. Collinson (2026)

A survey of Eocene stomach contents illuminates the origins of frugivory and seed dispersal in neornithine (crown group) birds

The Science of Nature 113: 81

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-026-02130-2

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-026-02130-2

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Kayla D. Bazzana-Adams, Gregory F. Funston & David C. Evans (2026)

Inner Ear Anatomy of Caenagnathidae (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) Emphasizes Mosaic Evolution of the Avian Neurosensory System

Journal of Comparative Neurology 534(7): e70180

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.70180

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.70180

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cne.70180

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Nicholas R. Longrich, Peter J. Makovicky, Tim Tokaryk, David M. L. Cooper, Evan T. Saitta, Gregory M. Erickson, Tamas Szekely and Eric Snively (2026)

Hatchlings of Tyrannosaurus rex and the Evolution of Dinosaur Reproductive Strategies

Biology 15(13): 1090

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15131090

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/15/13/1090

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Ya-Lei Yin, Bu-Yu Wu, Rui Pei, Hong-Gang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Feng-Bin Shen & Xu Xing (2026)

The anatomy of two troodontid teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiayin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 823-837

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.195625

https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/195625/

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Uragasaurus kalasinensis gen. et sp. nov.

Apirut Nilpanapan, Sita Manitkoon, Varavudh Suteethorn & Komsorn Lauprasert (2026)

A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand

Scientific Reports 16: 21205

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-49822-3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-026-49822-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-49822-3

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Mesetasaurus protector gen. et sp. nov.

Matías Soto Núñez, Felipe Montenegro and Daniel Perea (2026)

A new aeolosaurini (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay

Ameghiniana (advance online publication)

doi: 10.5710/AMGH.19.06.2026.3689

Free pdf:

https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/170

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Masami Kondo, Kohei Tanaka, Fumiaki Utagawa, Junki Yoshida, and Darla K. Zelenitsky (2026)

An Iguanodontian Sternal Plate from the Upper Cretaceous Ashizawa Formation (Futaba Group) of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Paleontological Research 30(1): 122-134

doi: https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.250042

https://bioone.org/journals/paleontological-research/volume-30/issue-1/prpsj.250042/An-Iguanodontian-Sternal-Plate-from-the-Upper-Cretaceous-Ashizawa-Formation/10.2517/prpsj.250042.full

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Ancheng Peng and Lida Xing (2026)

Classical Hypotheses and New Tools in Dinosaur Ichnology: A Review of Footprints with Geometric Morphometrics, Machine Learning and Biomechanics

Fossil Studies 4(3): 18

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4030018

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/3/18

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Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Claire Browning, Muofhe Tshibalanganda, Debarati Mukherjee, Roger M. H. Smith, Anton Du Plessis & Frederik Wolvaardt (2026)

Micro-CT informed cranial anatomy of the early rhynchosaur Howesia browni, with implications for rhynchosaur skull evolution

Papers in Palaeontology 12(4): e70105

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70105

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70105

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70105

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Eirin Kar & Dhurjati P. Sengupta (2026)

Taphofacies analysis of rhynchosaurs from the Late Triassic Maleri Formation, Pranhita–Godavari Basin, India, using multivariate and spatial statistics

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-60410-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-60410-3

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Adam Rytel, Pasha A. van Bijlert, Stephan Lautenschlager, Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Mateusz Tałanda & Tomasz Sulej (2026)

Biomechanics of the extremely elongated neck of the Triassic archosauromorph Tanystropheus

bioRxiv 2026.06.28.735087 (preprint)

doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.28.735087

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.28.735087v1

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Jørgen Krøglid, Mathieu Gabriel Faure-Brac & Lene Liebe Delsett (2026)

Rib microstructure in thunniform ichthyosaurs and toothed whales.

PeerJ 14:e21486

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21486

https://peerj.com/articles/21486/

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Carinasquama rusmithii gen. et sp. nov.

Juan D. Daza, Emily G. Selling, Kelsey M. Jenkins, Edward L. Stanley, Daniel S. Doucet, Gabriela Fotanarrosa & Aaron M. Bauer (2026)

Evidence of male anatomy in a mid-Cretaceous Burmese miniaturised amber gecko.

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 785-799.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.188227

https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/188227/

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Melodi Yenmiş (2026)

Comparative micro-ornamentation patterns of reptile skin: Phylogeny-ecology debate and species-specific variations

The Anatomical Record

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70265

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70265

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Georgios L. Georgalis, Krister T. Smith, Kevin D. Mulcahy, Aidan Dunlay, Johan Knoff, Faruk Ocakoğlu, Alexis Licht, Grégoire Métais & K. Christopher Beard (2026)

First Eocene lizard (Squamata) from Balkanatolia documents overwater dispersal of Paleogene pleurodontan iguanians

Scientific Reports (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-59284-2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-59284-2

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Oliver A. López-Conde, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona & María L. Chavarría-Arellano (2026)

Restos de tortuga en el Cretácico Superior (Maastrichtiano) de Chiapas amplían el registro geológico y geográfico de este taxón en México

Turtle remains in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Chiapas expand the geological and geographical record of this taxon in Mexico

Paleontología Mexicana 15(2): 335-347 (in Spanish)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igl.05437652e.2026.15.2.441

https://paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx/index.php/paleontologia/article/view/441

Free pdf:

https://paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx/index.php/paleontologia/article/view/441/695

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Leolepis matogrossensis gen. et sp. nov.

Valéria Gallo, Francisco J.de Figueiredo, Raoul J. Mutter, Gerson Souza Saes, Dharani Sundaran & Martha Richter (2026)

Leolepis matogrossensis gen. et sp. nov., a late Permian actinopterygian fish from the Corumbataí Formation, in the vicinity of the Araguainha Impact Crater, State of Mato Grosso, Mid-Western Brazil

Journal of South American Earth Sciences 106176

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2026.106176

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981126002282

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Pteronisculus luopingensis sp. nov.

Yi Ren & Guang-Hui Xu (2026)

Pteronisculus luopingensis sp. nov., a new stem actinopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Luoping, Yunnan, China

Mesozoic 3(2): 196-206

DOI: 10.11646/mesozoic.3.2.6

https://www.mapress.com/mz/article/view/mesozoic.3.2.6

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Chase D. Brownstein, Laura R. V. Alencar, Holly K. Kindsvater, Christine E. Thacker, Dylan K. Wainwright, Thomas J. Near & Richard C. Harrington (2026)

The prolonged reemergence of megapredatory pelagic fishes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2074): 20261257 .

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.1257

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2074/20261257/482464/The-prolonged-reemergence-of-megapredatory-pelagic

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Gustavo A. Ballen, Camilo Montes, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Sergio Bogan, Sandra Reinales, Mario C. C. de Pinna & Carlos Jaramillo (2026)

Fossil freshwater fishes from the Pliocene of northern Colombia and the palaeogeography of northern South America

Papers in Palaeontology 12(4): e70101

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70101

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70101

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70101

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Tom Carruthers (2026)

Interactions between phylogenetic trees and fossils when estimating evolutionary timescales

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voag055,

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voag055

https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voag055/8728734

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Lars P.J. Barten, John W.M. Jagt & Eric W.A. Mulder (2026)

Updated stratigraphical ranges of Late Cretaceous tetrapod vertebrates from the Maastrichtian type area and the impact of megabiases on their record

Deinsea 24: 33 - 54

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21248985

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/408733403_Updated_stratigraphical_ranges_of_Late_Cretaceous_tetrapod_vertebrates_from_the_Maastrichtian_type_area_and_the_impact_of_megabiases_on_their_record

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F. Fanti, L. Consorti, M. Muscioni, L. Baldassari, E. Dinelli, M. Polentarutti, G. Bais, A. Farnsworth, E. Kustatscher, A. Spina & A.A. Chiarenza (2026)

Climate-extreme-driven genesis of a Cretaceous dinosaur Lagerstätte

Global and Planetary Change 105589

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105589

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818126003103

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Alba Sánchez-García, Enrique Peñalver, Xavier Delclòs & Ricardo Pérez-de La Fuente (2026)

The El Soplao Konservat-Lagerstätte: a key Cretaceous amber deposit from Spain

Journal of the Geological Society jgs2026-022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2026-022

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsl/jgs/article/doi/10.1144/jgs2026-022/732530/The-El-Soplao-Konservat-Lagerstatte-a-key

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P. Fernandes, Z. Pereira, J.E. Spangenberg, M. Mendes, G. Lopes, R.C.G.S. Jorge, L. Albardeiro, E. Font, T. Adatte, T. Vennem & J. Marques (2026)

Terrestrial environmental change across the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Zambezi Basin, Mozambique: Integrating palynological, sedimentological and carbon isotope evidence

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 114049

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.114049

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226005122

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Emily M. Stewart, Michael S. Diamond and Lindsi J. Allman (2026)

Metamorphic sulfur release as a driver of sustained cooling and mass extinction

Science Advances 12(28): eaee2277

DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aee2277

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee2277

Free pdf:

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aee2277

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