Mixodectes + Liaoningotitan + Marmoretta drescherae + Otodus megalodon size + Iratusichthys + more free pdfs

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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

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Antonio Rosas, Markus Bastir, Antonio García-Tabernero & José Antonio Alarcón (2025).

Mosaic evolution. An example in the origin of Neandertals.

Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.30506

https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30506

Free pdf:

https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30506/31967

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Yossi Zaidner, Marion Prévost, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Lior Weissbrod, Reuven Yeshurun, Naomi Porat, Gilles Guérin, Norbert Mercier, Asmodée Galy, Christophe Pécheyran, Gaëlle Barbotin, Chantal Tribolo, Hélène Valladas, Dustin White, Rhys Timms, Simon Blockley, Amos Frumkin, David Gaitero-Santos, Shimon Ilani, Sapir Ben-Haim, Antonella Pedergnana, Alyssa V. Pietraszek, Pedro García, Cristiano Nicosia, Susan Lagle, Oz Varoner, Chen Zeigen, Dafna Langgut, Onn Crouvi, Sarah Borgel, Rachel Sarig, Hila May & Israel Hershkovitz (2025)

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago

Nature Human Behaviour (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02110-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02110-y

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Hannah N. Farrell, Rena Schwartz, Zewdi J. Tsegai & Zeresenay Alemseged (2025)

Locomotor signals in the trabecular structure of the hominoid clavicle

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14243

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14243

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14243

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Stephen G. B. Chester, Thomas E. Williamson, Jordan W. Crowell, Mary T. Silcox, Jonathan I. Bloch & Eric J. Sargis (2025)

New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

Scientific Reports 15: 8041

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90203-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90203-z

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Lilian Ntinyari Kithinji, Yasuhiro Kikuchi & Masato Nakatsukasa (2025)

A small catarrhine talus from the middle Miocene Nachola, northern Kenya

Anthropological Science 133(1): 23-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.241105

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/133/1/133_241105/_article/-char/en

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Francesco Nobile, Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Eli Amson, Mark Bosselaers, Giulia Bosio, Luca Pellegrino, Elisa Malinverno, Claudio Di Celma, Mario Urbina and Alberto Collareta (2025)

Surviving a Dark Age: The Oldest Baleen-Bearing Whales (Cetacea: Chaeomysticeti) of Pacific South America (Lower Miocene, Peru)

Life 15(3): 452

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/life15030452

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/452

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Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira Costa, Artur Chahud & Mercedes Okumura (2024) [2025]

Analysis of dental and osteological elements of Toxodontidae (Mammalia: Notoungulata) from Late Pleistocene–Holocene deposits of the Ribeira of Iguape Valley, Southeastern Brazil

Revista Brasileira De Paleontologia 27(4): e20240424

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2024.4.0424

https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/424

Free pdf:

https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/424/252

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Yadong Xu, Xiaoan Liu, Aimei Yang, Ziyi Hao, Xuening Li, Dan Li, Xiaoping Yu and Xinping Ye (2025)

Evaluating Past Range Shifts and Niche Dynamics of Giant Pandas Since the Last Interglacial

Animals 15(6): 801

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15060801

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/6/801

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BAI Wei-Peng, DONG Wei, ZHANG Li-Min & LIU Wen-Hui (2025)

The Pleistocene mammalian forest dwellers in monsoon dominated provinces of China as forest dynamics proxies

Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)

DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250311.

https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250311

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Simon D. Schowanek, Matt Davis, Erick J. Lundgren, Owen Middleton, John Rowan, Daniel Ramp, Christopher J. Sandom & Jens-Christian Svenning (2025)

The Late-Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages

Ecology and Evolution 15(3): e71101

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71101

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71101

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.71101

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Alex B. Shupinski, Matthew Craffey, Felisa A. Smith & S. Kathleen Lyons (2025)

Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition

Paleobiology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.53

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/different-mammals-same-structure-cooccurrence-structure-across-the-pliopleistocene-transition/69AE34C62E5C43F55A2405F687F10566

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Casey Cleaveland, Donald R. Prothero &V.J.P. Syverson (2025)

Age-mortality profiles in mammals from La Brea Tar Pits: insights into population dynamics, taphonomy, and statistical techniques

Historical Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2476121

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2476121

Free pdf (special link):

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D8TCVPQJNUXSSTBUW8UF/full?target=10.1080/08912963.2025.2476121

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Julia A. Schultz (2025)

A perspective from the Mesozoic: Evolutionary changes of the mammalian skull and their influence on feeding efficiency and high-frequency hearing

The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25652

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25652

Free pdf:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25652

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Marcelo Schereiber Munhoz, Caroline Audi & Francisco Sekiguchi Buchmann (2024) [2025]

Propagação sonora em Megaichnus major (paleotocas) como evidência de comunicação acústica de Mylodontoidea fossoriais.

[Sound propagation in Megaichnus major (paleoburrows) as evidence of acoustic communication of fossorian Mylodontoidea.]

Revista Brasileira De Paleontologia 27(4): e20240428 (in Portuguese)

doi: https://doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2024.4.0428

https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/428

Free pdf:

https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/rbp/article/view/428/254

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Jessie Atterholt, Jingmai K. O’Connor & Hailu You (2025)

Osteohistology of Enantiornithine Birds from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation

Geobios (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.08.020

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001669952500018X

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Javier Castro-Terol, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Jingmai K. O’Connor, José Luis Sanz & Francisco J. Serrano (2025)

Micro-CT reconstruction reveals new information about the phylogenetic position and locomotion of the Early Cretaceous bird Iberomesornis romerali

Geobios (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.006

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001669952500021X

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William Foster, Mark A. Norell & Amy M. Balanoff (2025)

Two new specimens of Conchoraptor gracilis (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

American Museum Novitates 4033: 66 pp.

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2246/7397

https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/737b41aa-b4ba-4e22-93a6-48820a300530

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Bingqing Shan (2025)

The re-description of Liaoningotitan sinensis Zhou et al., 2018

PeerJ 13: e19154

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19154

https://peerj.com/articles/19154/

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Mélani Berrocal-Casero, Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla, Pedro Miguel Callapez, Ricardo Pimentel, María Rosario Alcalde-Fuentes and Irene Prieto (2025)

New Ornithopod Remains from the Upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Vadillos-1 (Cuenca, Spain)

Fossil Studies 3(1): 5

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3010005

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/1/5

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Anthony Romilio, Ron Park, Wes Nichols & Owen Jackson (2025)

Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) Precipice Sandstone of the Callide Basin, Queensland, Australia

Historical Biology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2472153

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2472153

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2472153

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Roy E. Smith & David M. Martill (2025)

A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Portland Limestone Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian) of southern England

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101100

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101100

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787825000094

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Jesus Marugán-Lobón (2025)

Median-based resistant methods in the current framework of Geometric Morphometrics. [pterosaurs]

Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.29737

https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/29737

Free pdf:

https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/29737/31949

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Adam J. Fitch, Christian F. Kammerer & Sterling J. Nesbitt (2025)

First occurrences of Poposauroidea (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha) from North Carolina expand their geographic range in the Late Triassic

Palaeodiversity 18(1): 1-9

doi: https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v18.a1

https://bioone.org/journals/Palaeodiversity/volume-18/issue-1/pale.v18.a1/First-occurrences-of-Poposauroidea-Archosauria--Paracrocodylomorpha-from-North-Carolina/10.18476/pale.v18.a1.full

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Maciej Ruciński, Hugo Campos, Octávio Mateus & Ingmar Werneburg (2025)

Novel record of placodont remains including a Henodus cranium from the Upper Triassic Silves Group of the Algarve, southern Portugal

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e2460445

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2460445

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2460445

Free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2460445

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Femke M. Holwerda, Mark T. Mitchell, Madelon van de Kerk and Anne S. Schulp (2025)

Mosasaur Feeding Ecology from the Campanian Bearpaw Formation, Alberta, Canada: A Preliminary Multi-Proxy Approach

Diversity 17(3): 205

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030205

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/3/205

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Marmoretta drescherae sp. nov.

Alexandre R.D. Guillaume, Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual, and Miguel Moreno-Azanza (2025)

Revisiting the choristodere and stem-lepidosaur specimens of the Guimarota Beds (Kimmeridgian, Portugal): taxonomic implications

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(1): 77-96

doi:10.4202/app.01202.2024

https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012022024.html

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Kenshu Shimada, Ryosuke Motani, Jake J. Wood, Phillip C. Sternes, Taketeru Tomita, Mohamad Bazzi, Alberto Collareta, Joel H. Gayford, Julia Türtscher, Patrick L. Jambura, Jürgen Kriwet, Romain Vullo, Douglas J. Long, Adam P. Summers, John G. Maisey, Charlie Underwood, David J. Ward, Harry M. Maisch IV, Victor J. Perez, Iris Feichtinger, Gavin J.P. Naylor, Joshua K. Moyer, Timothy E. Higham, João Paulo C.B. da Silva, Hugo Bornatowski, Gerardo González-Barba, Michael L. Griffiths, Martin A. Becker, and Mikael Siversson (2025)

Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction.

Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a12

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1502

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5450-biology-of-otodus-megalodon

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Christine E. Thacker & Thomas J. Near (2025)

Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-025-09935-w

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Donglei Chen (2025)

Lungfish-like antero-labial tooth addition and amphibian-like enameloid-enamel transition in the coronoid of a Devonian stem actinopterygian

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14240

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14240

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14240

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Iratusichthys ulrikii gen. et sp. nov.

Ane Elise Schrøder & Giorgio Carnevale (2025)

The putative lampridiform Iratusichthys ulrikii gen. et sp. nov. from the Stolleklint clay unit of the Ølst Formation, Denmark.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 74: 33–47

doi: https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2025-74-04

https://2dgf.dk/publikationer/bulletin/bulletin-volume-74-2025/#4

Free pdf:

https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull74-33-47.pdf

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Ane Elise Schrøder, Giorgio Carnevale & Werner Schwarzhans (2025)

First occurrence of a fish otolith from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 74: 25-32

doi: https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2025-74-03

https://2dgf.dk/publikationer/bulletin/bulletin-volume-74-2025/#3

Free pdf:

https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull74-25-32..pdf

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Melanie A. D. During, Jordan K. Matelsky, Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Donglei Chen, Brock A. Wester, Konrad P. Kording, Per E. Ahlberg & Thomas B. Schön (2025)

Automated segmentation of synchrotron-scanned fossils.

Fossil Record 28(1): 103-114

doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e139379

https://fr.pensoft.net/article/139379/list/9/

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Charline Ragon, Christian Vérard, Jérôme Kasparian, Hendrik Nowak, Evelyn Kustatscher & Maura Brunetti (2025)

Comparison between plant fossil assemblages and simulated biomes across the Permian-Triassic Boundary

Frontiers in Earth Science 13: 1520846

doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1520846

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1520846/full

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Huiping Peng, Wan Yang, Mingli Wan, Jun Liu, and Feng Liu (2025)

Refugium amidst ruins: Unearthing the lost flora that escaped the end-Permian mass extinction

Science Advances 11(11): eads5614

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads5614

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5614

Free pdf:

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.ads5614

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Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin and Hans C.E. Larsson (2025)

High local variability in elevation of the Oldman-Dinosaur Park Formation contact revealed by digital outcrop reconstruction, and implications for dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada.

Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a13.

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1447

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5473-dinosaur-park-bonebed-3d-model

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Jesse Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan T. Tucker, Puntsag Delgerzaya, William J. Freimuth, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Junki Yoshida & Lindsay E. Zanno (2025)

Geological reassessment of syn-rift extensional sequences in the Shine Usny Tolgod and Dzun Shakhai fossil localities, Eastern Gobi Basin, Mongolia

Sedimentology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.70003

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sed.70003

Free pdf:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sed.70003

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Ashish N Nerlekar, Daniel Spalink & Joseph W Veldman (2025)

Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas.

American Journal of Botany e70013

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70013

https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.70013