Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Free papers from new volume:
Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95
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Lara Sciscio, Christian A. Meyer and Martin G. Lockley (2024)
Unraveling ecological interactions at Purgatoire Valley Dinosaur tracksite bed 1, Colorado, USA
In: Louis H. Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 389-401
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Spencer G. Lucas, John B. Rogers and Michael A. Kvasnak (2024)
Photogrammetric study of the Clayton Lake Dinosaur tracksite, Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern New Mexico, USA
In: Louis H.Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 243-269
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Brooks B Britt, Daniel Chure and George F Engelmann (2024)
Dinosaur tracks associated with a Lagerstätte in the Late Triassic Nugget Sandstone of Northeastern Utah
In: Louis H. Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 57-60
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Paul C. Murphey, Anthony Romilio, Neffra A. Matthews, Martin G Lockley, Brent H. Breithaupt, Karen J. Houck, Karen Chin, Andrew Milner, Ignacio Diaz Martinez, Lida Xing & Andreas Jannel (2024)
Track Recognition Via Artificial Cognition (TRAC): Preliminary report on the application of machine learning to identify dinosaur tracks
In: Louis H.Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 349-356
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Adrian P Hunt and Spencer G. Lucas (2024)
An overview of the ichnology of moa tracks and other traces from the late Cenozoic of New Zealand
In: Louis H. Taylor, Robert G. Raynolds, and Spencer G. Lucas, eds., 2024, Vertebrate Paleoichnology: A Tribute to Martin Lockley. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 95: 179-197
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Jean-Luc VOISIN, Maria Giovanna BELCASTRO, Annalisa PIETROBELLI & Silvana CONDEMI (2024)
A new thumb phalanx from Moula Guercy (France): description and considerations of Neandertal hand use
Comptes Rendus Palevol 23(21): 293-323
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a21
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/23/21
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R. Scott Byram, Kent G. Lightfoot & Jun Ueno Sunseri (2024)
Clovis points and foreshafts under braced weapon compression: Modeling Pleistocene megafauna encounters with a lithic pike.
PLoS ONE 19(8): e0307996.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307996
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0307996
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Ghulam M. Bhat, Nick Ashton, Simon Parfitt, Advait Jukar, Marc R. Dickinson, Bindra Thusu & Jonathan Craig (2024)
Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India
Quaternary Science Reviews 342: 108894
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108894
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124003950
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Kate Morrison, Natalya Usachenko, Jonathan Erdman, Shilah Waters, Renee L. Love
Piecing together a prehistoric puzzle—regional inferences of micro- and macroscopic analyses of possibly one of the last hybrid mammoths in mainland Western North America:
Geology of the Intermountain West 11: 21-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v11.pp21-44
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/148
Free pdf:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/148/191
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Anthony M. Carter (2024)
Genomics, the diversification of mammals, and the evolution of placentation
Developmental Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.08.011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160624002161
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Oscar E. Wilson, Rodolfo Sánchez, Edwin Chávez-Aponte, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Juha Saarinen
Application of herbivore ecometrics to reconstruct Neogene terrestrial palaeoenvironments in Falcón, Venezuela
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 651: 112397
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112397
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224003869
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Per G P Ericson FLS & Yanhua Qu (2024)
An evaluation of the usefulness of morphological characters to infer higher-level relationships in birds by mapping them to a molecular phylogeny
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae070
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae070
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blae070/7739876
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Yanhong Pan, Zeming Qi, Jianfang Hu, Xiaoting Zheng & Xiaoli Wang (2024)
Bio-molecular analyses enable new insights into the taphonomy of feathers
PNAS Nexus, pgae341
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae341
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae341/7738345
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Caletodraco cottardi gen. et sp. nov.
Eric Buffetaut, Haiyan Tong, Jérôme Girard, Bernard Hoyez and Javier Párraga (2024)
Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy (North-Western France)
Fossil Studies 2(3): 177-195
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils2030009
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/3
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Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus gen. et sp. nov.
Oliver W M Rauhut, Aizek A Bakirov, Oliver Wings, Alexandra E Fernandes & Tom R Hübner (2024)
A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201(4): zlae090
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae090
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/201/4/zlae090/7736730
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Adam D. Marsh, Donald D. De Blieux & James I. Kirkland (2024)
The first dinosaur postcranial body fossils from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Utah
Geology of the Intermountain West 11: 45-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v11.pp45-57
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/149
Free pdf:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/149/193
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Judit MINGUEZ CENICEROS, Moussa MASROUR, Mohamed BOUTAKIOUT, José Ignacio EXTREMIANA & Félix PÉREZ-LORENTE (2024)
Analysis of very small-small theropod footprints data from Imilchil tracksite (Hig Central Atlas. Morocco). A concordance model for a global scale.
Journal of African Earth Sciences 105389
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105389
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X2400222X
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James R. G. Rawson, William J. Deakin, Thomas L. Stubbs, Thomas J. Smith, Emily J. Rayfield and Phillip C. J. Donoghue (2024)
Widespread convergence towards functional optimization in the lower jaws of crocodile-line archosaurs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2029): 20240720
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0720
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0720
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0720
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T.H. Rempert, B.P. Martens and A.P.M. Vinkeles Melchers (2024)
Mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) of North Carolina, USA
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 328(3):384-391
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2024.328.3.384
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=566
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Wolfgang Wüster, Hinrich Kaiser, Marinus S Hoogmoed, Luis M P Ceríaco, Lutz Dirksen, Christophe Dufresnes, Frank Glaw, Axel Hille, Jörn Köhler, Thore Koppetsch, Konstantin D Milto, Glenn M Shea, David Tarkhnishvili, Scott A Thomson, Miguel Vences & Wolfgang Böhme (2024)
How not to describe a species: lessons from a tangle of anacondas (Boidae: Eunectes Wagler, 1830)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201(4): zlae099
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae099
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/201/4/zlae099/7735800
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Perledovatus gen. nov. , P. nothosomoides new comb.
Adriana López-Arbarello & Rainer Brocke (2024)
New generic name for a small Triassic ray-finned fish from Perledo (Italy)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143: 30
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00325-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-024-00325-6
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Vladimir Nikolov, Plamen Andreev, Georgi Voykov & Docho Dochev (2024)
The first record of gars (Ginglymodi: Lepisosteidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Bulgaria reveals a wider paleogeographic distribution of lepisosteids within the European Archipelago
Cretaceous Research 105985
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105985
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667124001587
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Miaojiaaspis dichotomus gen. et sp. nov.
CHEN Yang, LI Qiang, ZHOU Zheng-Da, SHAN Xian-Ren, ZHU You-An, WANG Qian, WEI Guang-Biao & ZHU Min (2024)
A new genus of galeaspids (jawless stem-Gnathostomata) from the early Silurian Chongqing Lagerstätte, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.240820
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.240820
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Michael A. Fath, Greta Wong, Chloé-Rose Colombero, Molly K. Gabler-Smith, George V. Lauder & Dylan K. Wainwright (2024)
Patterns of dermal denticle loss in sharks
Journal of Morphology 285(9): e21764
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21764
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21764
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Donald Davesne & Giorgio Carnevale (2024)
An extraordinary larval-like teleost fish from the Eocene of Bolca
bioRxiv 2024.08.19.608581 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.19.608581
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.19.608581v2
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Kristen E. Saban & John J. Wiens (2024)
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores
Global Ecology and Biogeography e13900
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13900
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13900
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Jeffrey H. Robinson, Daphne E. Lee, Marcus D. Richards, Sophie E. M. White & R. Ewan Fordyce (2024)
The fossil vertebrate primary type specimens in the collection of the University of Otago Department of Geology
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 54(5): 566-583
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2024.2363436
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2024.2363436
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03036758.2024.2363436
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Jacqueline S. Meier, Vassiliki Pliatsika & Kim Shelton (2024)
The earliest evidence of large animal fossil collecting in mainland Greece at Bronze Age Mycenae
Scientific Reports 14: 19158
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68778-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68778-w
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Matteo Montagna, Giulia Magoga, Rudolf Stockar & Fabio Magnani (2024)
The contribution of the Middle Triassic fossil assemblage of Monte San Giorgio to insect evolution
Communications Biology 7: 1023
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06678-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06678-5
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Davide Badano, Michela Fratini, Francesca Palermo, Nicola Pieroni, Laura Maugeri & Pierfilippo Cerretti (2024)
Mesozoic larva in amber reveals the venom delivery system and the palaeobiology of an ancient lineage of venomous insects (Neuroptera)
Scientific Reports 14: 19696
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69887-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-69887-2
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Gregory D. Price & Bryan Low Kai Sheng (2024)
Tracking Palaeotemperatures in Coniacian–Maastrichtian Seas
Cretaceous Research 105984
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105984
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124001575
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C. L. Kirkland & P. Sutton (2024)
A geological telescope through the galaxy?
Journal of the Geological Society 181(6): jgs2023-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-219
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