Hypsodontus sinensis + Fucadytes + Wudingloong + Mirasaura + Cadurcopanoplos + Phosphoriguana + Pterosphenus rannensis + Keasichthys + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Juan Ochando, Federico Di Rita, Donatella Magri, Jacopo Crezzini, Allegra Burgassi, Giulia Marciani, Francesco Berna, Francesco Boschin, Adriana Moroni & Vincenzo Spagnolo (2025)
Environment and hunting territories for Late Neanderthals in central Italy: new palaeoecological data from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario – Tuscany, Italy)
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 66: 105319
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105319
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25003529
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Rodrigo PORTERO, Mikelo ELORZA, Jesús F. JORDÁ PARDO & Esteban ÁLVAREZ-FERNÁNDEZ (2025)
New data about Neanderthal subsistence strategies in El Cierro cave (Ribadesella, Asturias) during the MIS 3.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(19): 363-379
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a19
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/19
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Melanie M. Beasley, Julie J. Lesnik and John D. Speth (2025)
Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes
Science Advances 11(30): eadt7466
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt7466
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466
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Grant S. McCall (2025)
Hominin Population Structure, Mating Systems, and Intrasexual Competition
Implications for Craniofacial Robusticity and the Self-Domestication Hypothesis
Human Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09498-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-025-09498-6
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Tatyana V. Petrova, Andrey A. Lissovsky, Semyon Yu. Bodrov, Aivar V. Kuular, Nikolay I. Putintsev, Munkhtsog Bariushaa and Natalia I. Abramson (2025)
Reconstruction of Pleistocene Evolutionary History of the Root Vole Alexandromys oeconomus (Cricetidae, Rodentia) in Northern Asia
Diversity 17(7): 497
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17070497
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/7/497
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Evan R. Kuo and Donald R. Prothero (2025)
Allometric growth in the limbs of the Pleistocene “mountain deer” Navahoceros fricki from San Josecito Cave, Mexico
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 103--106
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Hypsodontus sinensis sp. nov.
Yu-Qing Jin, Qigao Jiangzuo & Shi-Qi Wang (2025)
The first discovery of Hypsodontus (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the Early Miocene of Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, China
Fossil Record 28(2): 231-239
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e156566
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/156566/
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Tymbri Potter and Donald R. Prothero (2025)
Possible sexual dimorphism in the Pleistocene Shasta ground sloth, Nothrotheriops shastensis (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Pilosa)
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 10. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100: 167--170
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Jonathan Bellinzoni, Ricardo Bonini, Sara García-Morato, Gustavo N. Gómez, Pamela Steffan, María Dolores Marín-Monfort, Alfredo Zurita, Francisco Cuadrelli, Francisco J. Prevosti, Fernando J. Fernández, Cristian Favier-Dubois, Daniel J. Rafuse, María Teresa Alberdi, Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo & José L. Prado (2025)
New mammal assemblage from last interglacial in Argentine Pampas: Debating biostratigraphic and biochronological reliability
Quaternary Science Reviews 367: 109511
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109511
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003312
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S. Sophia Politt, Helena Pribliczki, Marc R. Dickinson, Nils Andersen, Abenicia Henderson, David Morris, Cheryl A. Makarewicz, Kirsty Penkman & Michaela Ecker (2025)
Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70002
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70002
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70002
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Benjamin John Burger (2025)
Comparative spatial paleoecology: assessing niche competition between Eocene North American multituberculates and rodents regarding forest resources to elucidate the cause of multituberculate extinction
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10048
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Fucadytes discrepans gen. et sp. nov.
Gerald Mayr & James L. Goedert (2025)
An unusual new species and additional fossils of the penguin-like Plotopteridae from the Paleogene of Washington State, USA
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2530147
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2530147
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2530147
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Tadorna rekohu sp. nov.
Nicolas J Rawlence, Pascale Lubbe, Amy L Adams, Lara D Shepherd, Theresa L Cole, Michael Knapp, Bastien Llamas, Jamie R Wood, Kieren J Mitchell & Alan J D Tennyson (2025)
Ancient DNA and morphometrics reveal a new species of extinct insular shelduck from Rēkohu Chatham Islands
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(3), zlaf069
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf069
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/3/zlaf069/8212055
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Albert Chen, Elizabeth M Steell, Roger B J Benson & Daniel J Field (2025)
Towards a comprehensive anatomical matrix for crown birds: phylogenetic insights from the pectoral girdle and forelimb skeleton
Integrative Organismal Biology, obaf029
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf029
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obaf029/8211821
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Wudingloong wui gen. et sp. nov.
Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Yan-Chao Wang, Huan Xu, Jianbo Chen, Zhuo Feng, Xing Xu, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025)
A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia
Scientific Reports 15: 26749
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12185-2
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Romain Pintore, Alexandra Houssaye & John R. Hutchinson (2025)
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size
Palaeontology 68(4): e70016
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70016
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70016
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70016
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Phil R. Bell, Brian J. Pickles, Sarah C. Ashby, Issy E. Walker, Sally Hurst, Michael Rampe, Paul Durkin & Caleb M. Brown (2025)
A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada.
PLoS One 20(7): e0324913
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324913
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324913
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Lida Xing, Jinyou Mo, Hang Yin, Guan He, Zhiyu Liang, Qiyan Chen, Eric Buffetaut & Haiyan Tong (2025)
Theropod tracks from the Upper Jurassic Dongxing Formation Dongxing City and an overview of dinosaur assemblages from Guangxi, China
Earth History and Biodiversity 100031
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100031
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000152
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Jeremy E. Martin & Romain Jattiot (2025)
First report of neosuchian remains in Aptian–Albian marine deposits of southeastern France
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101132
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101132
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787825000410
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Mirasaura grauvogeli gen. et sp. nov.
Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Christian Foth, Valentina Rossi, Cristina Gascó Martín, Tiffany S. Slater, Orla G. Bath Enright, Kathleen N. Dollman, Giovanni Serafini, Dieter Seegis, Léa Grauvogel-Stamm, Maria E. McNamara, Hans-Dieter Sues & Rainer R. Schoch (2025)
Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09167-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09167-9
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Cadurcopanoplos vaylatsensis gen. et sp. nov.
Phosphoriguana peritechne gen. et sp. nov.
Alfred Lemierre & Georgios L. Georgalis (2025)
Diversity in a greenhouse world: herpetofauna from the late Eocene (MP 17A) of La Bouffie, Quercy Phosphorites (Lot, SW France)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 40
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00370-9
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00370-9
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Pterosphenus rannensis sp. nov.
Debajit Datta & Sunil Bajpai (2025)
Fossil snakes from the Eocene of India: new material with comments on phylogenetic relations and biogeographic and paleoecological implications
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.10101
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Roy Ebel, Chris Broeckhoven, Edward L Stanley, Till Ramm & J Scott Keogh (2025)
Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(3): zlaf070
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf070
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/3/zlaf070/8203240
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Victor Beccari, Andrea Villa, Marc E. H. Jones, Gabriel S. Ferreira, Frank Glaw & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2025)
A juvenile pleurosaurid (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Tithonian of the Mörnsheim Formation, Germany
The Anatomical Record 308(3): 844-867
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25545
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25545
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25545
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Kaleb C. Sellers, Alec T. Wilken, Corrine R. Cranor, Kevin M. Middleton & Casey M. Holliday (2025)
Quadrate orientation and joint reaction force underwent correlated evolution during suchian evolution
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70020
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70020
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P. P. Skutschas & V. V. Kolchanov (2025)
Determination of Individual Age and Ontogenetic Stages of Fossil Tetrapods Using Paleohistological Methods
Biology Bulletin 52: 112
doi: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359025700013
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1062359025700013
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Ben Igielman, Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa, Robert R. Higgins, Stephanie E. Pierce, Michael I. Coates, Emily M. Troyer, Vincent Fernandez, Kathleen Dollman, Jing Lu, Min Zhu, Matt Friedman & Sam Giles (2025)
The lower jaw of Devonian ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): Anatomy, relationships, and functional morphology
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70005
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70005
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70005
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Keasichthys oregonensis gen. et sp. nov.
Alison M. Murray & Donald E. Champagne (2025)
A new species of early Oligocene flatfish (Pleuronectiformes) from Oregon, USA
Geological Magazine 162: e22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100125
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Malgorzata Bienkowska-Wasiluk, Piotr Bajdek and Mateusz Granica (2025)
Vertebrate Coprolites Reveal Diversity of Prey Fishes in the Oligocene Carpathian Basin of the Paratethys
Diversity 17(8): 507
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17080507
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/8/507
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Mathieu Duval, Laura Martín-Francés & Rachel Wood (2025)
On the impact of micro-CT scanning on radiocarbon dating of fossil material: A cautionary note for the palaeoanthropological community and beyond
Radiocarbon (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2025.23
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George E. Konidaris, Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Alper Yener Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan, Mehmet Cihat Alçiçek, Nail Uyar & Katerina Harvati (2025)
Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00666-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00666-1
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Annette Oertle, Jacopo Crezzini, Adriana Moroni, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Stefano Benazzi, Armando Falcucci, Giulia Marciani, Matteo Rossini, Ivan Martini, Simona Arrighi, Tom Higham, Francesco Boschin & Katerina Douka (2025)
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy
Scientific Reports 15: 25906
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6
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