Afrotheria timetree + Prionodon hualongensis + Anchiornis wing + Shakiremys + Pelusios awashi + Dunkleosteus feeding + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Quentin Cosnefroy, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Patrick Semal, Mateja Hajdinjak, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Johannes Krause, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Cosimo Posth, Hervé Bocherens, Thibaut Devièse & Hélène Rougier (2025)
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
Scientific Reports 15: 40741
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24460-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3
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Justin Bradfield & Michelle C. Langley (2025)
Bone Tool Diversity During the Stone Age: More Insights into the Human Story
Journal of Archaeological Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-025-09211-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-025-09211-2
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Oleksandr Naumenko & Vadim Stepanchuk (2025)
Evidence of bipolar knapping of mammoth ivory at Medzhybizh A: Technological and experimental insights from a lower Palaeolithic context
Quaternary International 75: 1100491
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110049
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225003921
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QIU Zhu-Ding, Lawrence J. FLYNN, WANG Ban-Yue, LI Lu
Cricetids (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene Yihachi locality of Gansu, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251117
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251117
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S V Robson, A Prokop, C N Baird, J A Ludtke, S T Tucker & J M Theodor (2025)
The internal otic region of oromerycids (Artiodactyla, Oromerycidae), early camelids (Artiodactyla, Camelidae), and the vicuña (Artiodactyla, Camelidae), including notes on intraspecific and subadult ontogenetic variation
Integrative Organismal Biology, obaf043
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf043
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obaf043/8325099
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Daniela C. Kalthoff, Javier N. Gelfo & Thomas Mörs (2025)
Postcanine enamel microstructure of Eocene Sparnotheriodontidae (Mammalia: Litopterna) from Antarctica and southern South America compared to that of other South American Native Ungulates
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00679-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00679-w
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Takahiro Segawa, Takahiro Yonezawa, Hiroshi Mori, Ayumi Akiyoshi, Asier Larramendi & Naoki Kohno (2025)
Ancient DNA from Palaeoloxodon naumanni in Japan reveals early evolution of Eurasian Palaeoloxodon
iScience 114156
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114156
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225024174
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Jack M. Craig, Whitney L. Fisher, Allan S. Thomas, S. Blair Hedges & Sudhir Kumar (2025)
Completing a molecular timetree of Afrotheria
Frontiers in Bioinformatics 5: 1710926
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2025.1710926
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioinformatics/articles/10.3389/fbinf.2025.1710926/full
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Melissa Ceylan Wood (2025)
High overlap of extant mammal ranges with sediment sinks indicates high fossilization potential of total diversity
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10078
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TONG Haowen, JIANGZUO Qigao, LI Qiang, CHANG Meijing, LIU Boxuan, JIN Zetian.
New mammalian fossils from the Hualongdong site in Dongzhi County, Anhui.
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 44(05): 779-798. (In Chinese, English abstract)
doi: 10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0066
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0066
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LIU Sitong, LIU Boxuan, JIN Zetian, DENG Guodong, TONG Haowen & WU Xiujie (2025)
Mammalian astragalus fossils excavated at Hualongdong site
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 44(05): 816-835. (In Chinese, English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0072
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0072
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Prionodon hualongensis sp. nov.
JIANGZUO Qigao, LIU Boxuan, LIU Sitong, HE Letian & TONG Haowen (2025)
Fossil carnivora from the Hualongdong Site Loc.1 and their chronological and paleoenvironmental implications
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 44(05): 836-849. (In Chinese, English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0064
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0064
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MA Jiao, JIANGZUO Qigao, JIN Zetian, DENG Guodong, CHEN Yiying & YAN Yi (2025)
Isotopic paleoecology of Ursidae from Hualongdong, Anhui
Acta Anthropologica Sinica 44(05): 884-894. (In Chinese, English abstract)
doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0068
https://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0068
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J Lloyd & F Durand (2025)
Die ontdekking van ’n nuwe lid van die Akidnognathidae, die karnivore wat die bestaan van Pangea bevestig
The discovery of a new member of the Akidnognathidae, the carnivores that confirm the existence of Pangaea
Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie 44(1): 120-128 (in Afrikaans)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36303/SATNT.2025.44.1.3058
https://ojs.sabinet.co.za/index.php/satnt/article/view/3058
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https://ojs.sabinet.co.za/index.php/satnt/article/view/3058/1870
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Yan-Yun Zhang, Jia-Wei Tang, Ying Wang & Shuo Wang (2025)
Medulla-free barb rami highlight the morphological diversity of early feathers.
Zoological Research 46(4): 773-787.
DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2024.435shu
https://www.zoores.ac.cn/article/doi/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2024.435
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Yosef Kiat, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang & Jingmai O’Connor (2025)
Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs
Communications Biology 8: 1633
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09019-2
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Rafael Delcourt, Orlando Nelson Grillo, Christophe Hendrickx, Maximilian Kellermann & Max Cardoso Langer (2025)
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70085
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70085
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70085
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Elisabete Malafaia, Filipa Batista, Bruno Maggia, Carolina S. Marques, Fernando Escaso, Pedro Dantas, and Francisco Ortega (2025)
Theropod tooth morphotypes from the Andrés fossil site: insights into a highly diverse fauna of European Late Jurassic carnivore dinosaurs.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a53
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1504
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1504.pdf
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Filipa Batista, Lígia Castro, Patrícia Moita, Bruno Maggia, Francisco Ortega and Elisabete Malafaia (2025)
Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andrés fossil site, Pombal, Portugal
Lethaia 58(4): 1–16
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.4.2
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.4.2
Free pdf:
https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.4.2
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Anthony Romilio, Paul C. Murphey, Neffra A. Matthews, Bruce A. Schumacher, Lance D. Murphey, Marcello Toscanini, Parker Boyce and Zach Fitzner (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/geomatics5040067
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/5/4/67
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Xin-xin Ren, Xu-ri Wang, Yi-chuan Liu & Shu-bin Ju (2025)
Late Jurassic tectono-volcanic evolution and sauropod radiation of eastern Jiangnan orogen: Evidence from Tunxi Formation, China
China Geology 8(4): 779-796
doi: https://doi.org/10.31035/cg2023087
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096519225001120
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Stephan Lautenschlager, Minnie M. Cione, Grace Cowley, Benjamin J. Creasy, Harrison Everard, Oliver J. Graves, Poppy E. Hawkins, Alisa Plaksina, Helena N. Rowlstone, Austin M. Smith & Lauren M. Steward (2025)
Dinosaur skull geometry does not follow functional optimisation trends but facilitates adaptability
iScience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114115
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02376-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225023764
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Xiangwan Lu, Fangfang Teng, Yingyu Chen, Xin Cheng, Xiaobo Li & Robert Reisz (2025)
Micro-XRF chemical elementary analysis on the holotype of Sinopterus atavismus Lü, Teng, Sun, Shen, Li, Gao, Liu, 2016 (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae)
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250436
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250436
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/mpZLKtNgnHySv3QLdKTdCwc/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/mpZLKtNgnHySv3QLdKTdCwc/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Felipe L. Pinheiro, Alexander W.A. Kellner, João L. Da Silva, Rudah R.C. Duque, Juliana M. Sayão, Esaú V. De Araújo, Fabiana R. Costa, Richard Buchmann, Gabriela M. Cerqueira, Lucas Canejo, Victor Beccari, Renan A.M. Bantim, Borja Holgado & Rubi V. Pêgas (2025)
Cretaceous Pterosaurs of the Araripe Basin: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Update and Paleobiological Insights
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250622
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250622
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/xNmRx7Lm5MCVmzSJC3Nc7CL/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/xNmRx7Lm5MCVmzSJC3Nc7CL/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Lucas Canejo, Juliana M. Sayão & Alexander W.A. Kellner (2025)
Exploring the complex cranial morphology of Tupandactylus imperator (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) based on a new specimen
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250756
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250756
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/6HvMmqXH7NmGvSHfrY7spjQ/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/6HvMmqXH7NmGvSHfrY7spjQ/?format=pdf&lang=en
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Agustina Lecuona, Emily Keeble, Yuting Lin & John R. Hutchinson (2025)
Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae)
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70067
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70067
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70067
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Cecily S. C. Nicholl, Paul M. J. Burke, Ella M. Marwood, Jeremy E. Martin, Mahammed Mahboubi, Rodolphe Tabuce & Philip D. Mannion (2025)
A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e2572964
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572964
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572964
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572964
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M. Šulcová, J. Dumková, B. Hutečková, M. Kavková, V. Parobková, O. Zahradníček, J. Křivánek, I. Adameyko, J. Kaiser, T. Zikmund, A. S. Tucker & M. Buchtová (2025)
Tooth–bone attachment tissue is produced by cells with a mixture of odontoblastic and osteoblastic features in reptiles
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70059
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70059
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70059
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Shakiremys colombiana gen. et. sp. nov.
Edwin-Alberto Cadena, David E. Leal-Amaya, Andrés Vanegas-Vanegas, Rubén D. Vanegas-Vanegas & Lino J. E. Guevara-Serrano (2025)
Mosaic morphology in Podocnemididae revealed by a new turtle from the Middle Miocene La Venta Biome, Colombia
Papers in Palaeontology 11(6): e70051
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70051
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70051
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70051
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Pelusios awashi sp. nov.
Brent Adrian, Christopher J. Campisano, Kaye E. Reed & Denise F. Su (2025)
A new species of the mud terrapin Pelusios offers insights into early hominin habitats at the Pliocene Hadar Formation of Ethiopia
Scientific Reports 15: 40800
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24655-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24655-8
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Daniel Tyborowski and Gabriela Sienkiewicz (2025)
Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells – their origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions
Lethaia 58(4): 1–9
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.4.4
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.4.4
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https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.4.4
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Paolo Sandroni, Nathan S. Church, Rodolfo Coccioni, Fabrizio Frontalini, Maurizio Mainiero & Alessandro Montanari (2025)
Reptile footprints on a pelagic seafloor as a vestige of a synsedimentary seismic event in the lower Campanian Scaglia Rossa Basin of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy)
Cretaceous Research 106268
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106268
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001910
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David J. Cicimurri , Gary L. Stringer , Jun A. Ebersole
Additional records of Paleogene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from Alabama, USA
Acta Geologica Polonica 75(4): e60
DOI: 10.24425/agp.2025.155954
https://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/155954/edition/137133/content
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Jack Stack (2025)
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70090
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70090
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70090
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Alexandr Bakaev & U I Karaseva (2025)
On the Evolution of the Ray-Finned Fish Fauna of the Permian and Triassic of the Kuznetsk Basin
Paleontological Journal 59(5): 529-539
DOI: 10.1134/S0031030125600672
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Manuel Andreas Staggl, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Michael J. Benton & Jürgen Kriwet (2025)
Global environmental drivers shape Cenozoic neoselachian diversity and identify modern conservation priorities
Scientific Reports 15: 38661
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25653-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25653-6
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Russell K. Engelman, Robert K. Carr, Kate Trinajstic, Zerina Johanson & Oleg A. Lebedev (2025)
Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70075
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70075
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70075
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Zitan Song, Michael Griesser, and Carel P. van Schaik (2025)
Parental investment and body temperature explain encephalization in vertebrates
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(45): e2506145122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506145122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506145122
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2506145122
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Angela Baldanza, Giovanni Pasini, Alessandro Garassino, Antonella Carosi, Bettina Reichenbacher, Massimo Lorenzoni, Federico Famiani, and Roberto Bizzarri
Scavengers and opportunists at work on whale carcasses: Decapods, echinoids and fishes.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a52
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1561
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5709-decapods-echinoids-and-fishes
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Ryan T. Tucker, Michael Ryan King, Puntsag Delgerzaya, William J. Freimuth, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Ryuji Takasaki, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza & Lindsay E. Zanno (2025)
Protracted intercontinental aridification preserved within the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Eastern Gobi Basin, Mongolia
Sedimentology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.70054
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sed.70054
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sed.70054
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Olesia V. Bondarenko (2025)
Plants as A proxy for monsoon reconstruction – a case study from the Eocene of East Asia
Earth History and Biodiversity 6: 100035
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100035
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295047592500019X
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Mary Robles, Valérie Andrieu, Pierre Rochette, Séverine Fauquette, François Demory, Oktay Parlak, Eliane Charrat, Belinda Gambin & Mehmet Cihat Alçiçek (2025)
Vegetation and climate changes during the Early–Late Pliocene Transition ( ∼ 3.6 Ma) in the Burdur Basin (Southwestern Anatolia): a comparison with the Mediterranean
Climate of the Past 21(11): 2299-2329
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2299-2025
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2299/2025/
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https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2299/2025/cp-21-2299-2025.pdf
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Carolina S. Marques, Afonso Mota, Matteo Belvedere, Diego Castanera, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Elisabete Malafaia, Soraia Pereira, Luís Miguel Rosalino, Vanda F. Santos, Lara Sciscio & Emmanuel Dufourq (2025)
Deep tracks: Using deep learning and procedurally simulated data for automated vertebrate footprints classification
Ecological Informatics 103523
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103523
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125005321
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Audra J. Richter, Andrew Meade & Brian J. Pickles (2025)
Identifying fragmented fossils and recent remains belonging to underrepresented taxa using geometric morphometrics
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10050
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J. Benoit, C. Helm & E.M. Bordy (2025)
Paleontological Knowledge among the Basotho and San of Lesotho: A Review Including Insights from Paul Ellenberger’s Archives
Geoheritage 17: 166
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01191-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01191-5
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