Promegantereon + therapsid phylogeny + dinosaur dental microwear + Sonselasuchus + bichirs from Madagascar + Eocene belemnites + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Book of Abstracts of the V Jornadas de Paleontología de la Cuenca Neuquina
LIBRO DE RESÚMENES DE LAS V JORNADAS DE PALEONTOLOGÍA DE LA CUENCA NEUQUINA
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(R2)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.23.02.2026.568
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/568
Free pdf:
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/568/943
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Chi-Shan Tsai, Christophe Voisin, Anthony Herrel & Eric Robert (2026)
The representation of cave lions in Paleolithic art: Temporal differences and anatomical accuracy
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 71: 105683
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105683
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26001185
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Christopher M Smith and Jeffrey T Laitman (2026)
Evolutionary modularity of the primate vestibular system: Morphological distinction of otolithic and canalicular organs
PNAS Nexus pgag068
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag068
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag068/8513837
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Juan D. Carrillo, Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, Francisco J. Urrea-Barreto, Kateryn Pino, Rebecca B. Cooper, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, Soren Faurby & Daniele Silvestro (2026)
Decoupled diversity and disparity after faunistic turnover in caviomorph rodents
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293 (2066): 20252586
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2586
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Rute Coimbra, Niels de Winter, Maria Ríos, Rui Bernardino, Darío Estraviz-López, Priscila Lohmann, Roberta Martino, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, Fernando Rocha, and Philippe Claeys (2026)
Detection of dietary stress and geophagic behaviour forced by dry seasons in Miocene Gomphotherium.
Biogeosciences 23: 1833–1858
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-1833-2026, 2026.
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/1833/2026/
Free pdf:
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/1833/2026/bg-23-1833-2026.pdf
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Tatiana V. Kuznetsova, Sebastian Wetterich, Vladimir E. Tumskoy, Heidrun Matthes & Lutz Schirrmeister (2026)
The Mammoth fauna as a paleontological characteristic of the Yedoma Ice Complex of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Eastern Arctic Siberia)
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 58(1): 2622152
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2026.2622152
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2026.2622152
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15230430.2026.2622152
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Elena Armaroli, Federico Lugli, Théo Tacail, Lutz Kindler, Sabine
Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Fulco Scherjon, Wil Roebroeks, Glendon Parker, Hubert
Vonhof, Anna Cipriani, Thomas Tütken & Wolfgang Müller (2026)
Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from the Last Interglacial
Neanderthal site of Neumark-Nord (~125 ka)
Science Advances 12(1113): eadz0114
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adz0114
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz0114
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Rebecca J. Strauch & Nicholas D. Pyenson (2026)
New evidence of a toothed mysticete from the Vaqueros Formation of California fills a gap in the palaeobiogeographic range of Aetiocetidae
Royal Society Open Science 13(3): 252108
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252108
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Yoshihiro Tanaka, Takanobu Yamaoka, Hitoshi Ohzawa & Tomomi Kiyoshi (2026)
A Short Report of the First Record of an Odontoceti (Toothed Whale) from the Korematsu Formation, Bihoku Group (Latest Early to Earliest Middle Miocene) in Japan
Paleontological Research 30(1): 17-27
doi: https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.250023 Open Access
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Shaymae Iken, Ana García-Vázquez, Gloria González-Fortes, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar & Aurora Grandal-D’Anglade (2026)
Tracing the footprints of the Atlas Brown Bear: a metric analysis of Holocene and Late Pleistocene remains from Northern Morocco.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 25(4): 57-76
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a4
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/4
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/comptes-rendus-palevol2026v25a4.pdf
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Manuel J. Salesa, Gema Siliceo, Mauricio Antón & Juan F. Pastor (2026)
On the origins of the sabre-toothed felid model: functional anatomy of the hindlimb in Promegantereon ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the Late Miocene of Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain)
BMC Zoology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-026-00259-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40850-026-00259-1
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Thomas H. Rich & Patricia Vickers-Rich (2026)
Kryoryctes is a monotreme for sure, maybe
Australian Zoologist 45(1): AZ25002
doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/AZ25002
https://connectsci.au/az/article/45/1/AZ25002/271628/Kryoryctes-is-a-monotreme-for-sure-maybe
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Benjamin J.J. Walker & Tracey L. Rogers (2026)
Evolution and drivers of long-distance vocal communication in mammals
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 33: 4
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-026-09805-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-026-09805-7
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Alienor Duhamel, Brenen Wynd, April Marie Wright, Atashni Moopen, Julien Benoit & Bruce Rubidge (2026)
Rethinking therapsid phylogeny through Bayesian and cladistic approaches
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-38195-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-38195-2
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Elías Adán Warshaw, Suresh Anmol Singh & Michael James Benton (2026)
Trophic ecology outweighed intrinsic constraints in shaping skull evolution of carnivorous Permian synapsids
Communications Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09824-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-09824-3
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Ezra Mendales, John McCormack, Jason S. Castañeda Cepeda, John P. Dumbacher & Jaime A. Chaves (2026)
Global phylogenetic relationships of Butorides herons (Aves: Ardeidae) reveal the evolutionary history and taxonomic status of the Galápagos Lava Heron
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 108600
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108600
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790326000709
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Von Alan Sieradzki, Rudolf Schaaf und Heimo Mikkol (2026)
„Megastriges“ Ausgestorbene Rieseneulenarten der Karibik aus dem Quartär
[‘Megastriges’: Extinct Giant Owls from the Quaternary Caribbean]
Kauzbrief 38: 35-41 (in German)
Free pdf: (with appended English text translation)
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Nicholas R. Longrich, Sebastian Dalman, Spencer G. Lucas & Anthony R. Fiorillo (2026)
A large tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of North America
Scientific Reports 16: 8371
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-38600-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-38600-w
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Cassius Morrison, James Gregory, Christopher Jackson, Jordan Bestwick, Katlin Schroeder, Samuel J.L. Gascoigne, Paul Bills, Laura B. Porro, Philip D. Mannion & Paul M. Barrett (2026)
Inter- and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications
The Anatomical Records (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70170
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70170
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70170
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John P. Hunter & Christine M. Janis (2026)
Tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs: implications for parental care in Maiasaura
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113707
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113707
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001707
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Norihisa INUZUKA (2025)
Reconstruction of Diplodocus (sauropod) body shape and gait with kinesiological method
Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 24: 1–14
https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/archive/memoir/memoir024-001.pdf
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Omar Vicencio-Campos, Luis Chirino-Gálvez, Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz, Antonia Atisha & Agustín G. Martinelli (2026)
Historical record of a sauropod (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) specimen at the Museo Seminario Valparaíso: the first dinosaur discovery of Chile?
Registro histórico de un especimen de saurópodo (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) del Museo Seminario Valparaíso: ¿El primer descubrimiento de un dinosaurio en Chile?
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 113–128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.08.12.2025.555
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/555
Free pdf:
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/555/944
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Lísie V.S. Damke, Leonardo Kerber, Mario Bronzati, Maurício S. Garcia, Martín D. Ezcurra, Sterling J. Nesbitt & Rodrigo T. Müller (2026)
Braincase anatomy and palaeoneurology of Venetoraptor gassenae, a lagerpetid pterosauromorph from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil
Palaeontology 69(2): e70047
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70047
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70047
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70047
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Sonselasuchus cedrus gen. et sp. nov.
Elliott Armour Smith & Christian A. Sidor (2026)
Osteology and relationships of a new shuvosaurid (Pseudosuchia, Poposauroidea) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2604859
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2604859
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2604859
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2604859
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Haiyan Tong, Lu Li, Yuzheng Ke and Yanyin Wang (2026)
Nanhsiungchelyid Turtles from the Nanxiong Basin, Southern China, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene Mass Extinction
Fossil Studies 4(1): 6
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4010006
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/1/6
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Stephanie K. Drumheller, F. Robin O’Keefe, Miles L. Mayhall, Emma Stalker & Christopher A. Brochu (2026)
A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2625732
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2625732
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2625732
Free access:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2625732
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Alfred LEMIERRE, Annelise FOLIE, Salvador BAILON & Michel LAURIN (2026)
Anurans of In Becetèn (Republic of Niger): the most diverse site for amphibians in Mesozoic Africa.
Geodiversitas 48(4): 51-67.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a4.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/48/4
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2026v48a4.pdf
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Alison M. Murray, Donald B. Brinkman, Michael D. Gottfried & David W. Krause (2026)
Late Cretaceous bichirs from Madagascar provide the first documentation of Polypteriformes (Actinopterygii, Cladistia) in Eastern Gondwana
Cretaceous Research 106370
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106370
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667126000595
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Robin G Allaby, Rosie Ware, Rebecca Cribdon, Teri A Hansford, Tim Kinnaird, Derek Hamilton, Logan Kistler, Phil Murgatroyd, Richard Bates, Simon Fitch, and Vincent Gaffney (2026)
Early colonization before inundation consistent with northern glacial refugia in Southern Doggerland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(11): e2508402123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2508402123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508402123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2508402123
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Fernández-Jalvo Yolanda, García-Morato Sara, Denys Christiane & Andrews Peter (2026)
Revisiting taphonomic methodologies in microvertebrate research: a case study from Tabun Cave Layer C (Mount Carmel Israel).
Quaternary Science Advances 100323
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2026.100323
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033426000109
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András Galácz (2026)
Eocene belemnites from Hungary
Papers in Palaeontology 12(2): e70075
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70075
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70075
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70075
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Neil H. Landman, Dean G. Grier, J. Kirk Cochran, Lydia S. Tackett, Joyce C. Grier, Thomas Linn, Matthew P. Garb, Kate F. Grier, Brian R. Jicha, and James W. Grier (2026)
The Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary in the Pierre Shale, Cedar Creek Anticline, Montana : environment of deposition based on geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological evidence
American Museum Novitates 4052: 1—53
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2246/7543
https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/34374190-2055-428f-bd86-34a151c6d7fb
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