Chilcacetus + Cormohipparion sofularensis + Spathagnathus + coelacanth phylogeny + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Francis Thackeray (2025)
The Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus), the Plio-Pleistocene boundary and a supernova hypothesis.
South African Journal of Science 121(5/6): Art. #21846
doi: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/21846
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/21846
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José Braga & Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi (2025)
Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
Nature Communications 16: 4796
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59734-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59734-x
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Ian Towle, Mackie C. O'Hara, A.B. Leece, Andy I.R. Herries, Afua Adjei, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Marina Martínez de Pinillos, Mario Modesto-Mata, Arthur Thiebaut, Raquel Hernando, Joel D. Irish, Franck Guy, Jean-Renaud Boisserie & Leslea J. Hlusko (2025)
Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic significance
Journal of Human Evolution 204: 103703
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103703
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000569
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Fernando Julián Fernández, Sara García-Morato, Gustavo Gómez, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo and José Luís Prado (2025)
Rediscovery of an extinct species of caviine rodent of the Late Pleistocene after the Last Glacial Maximum in the Pampasic Domain (Argentina)
Mammalia (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2025-0020
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2025-0020/html
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Antonella Cinzia Marra (2025)
Samotherium boissieri from the Late Miocene of Southern Italy
Life 15(6): 911
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/life15060911
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/6/911
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Chilcacetus ullujayensis n. sp.
Amphidelphis bakersfieldensis n. comb.
Olivier LAMBERT, Christian de MUIZON, Rebecca F. BENNION, Mario URBINA & Giovanni BIANUCCI (2025)
New data on archaic homodont odontocetes from the Early Miocene of Peru reveal a second species of Chilcacetus Lambert, Muizon & Bianucci, 2015 and a Southern Hemisphere record for a northeastern Pacific species.
Geodiversitas 47(9): 369-408
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a9.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/47/9
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a9.pdf
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Sophie Flem, Gregory Berns, Ben Inglis, Dillon Niederhut, Eric Montie, Terrence Deacon, Karla L. Miller, Peter Tyack & Peter F. Cook (2025)
Lateralized cerebellar connectivity differentiates auditory pathways in echolocating and non-echolocating whales
PLoS One 20(6): e0323617
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323617
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323617
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Özge Kahya Parildar, Okşan Başoğlu, Omar Cirilli, Ömer Dağ, Ferhat Kaya, Pinar Gözlük Kirmizioğlu, Cesur Pehlevan, Emrah Şimşek & Raymond L. Bernor (2025)
Cormohipparion sofularensis n. sp., a new hipparion species of from the Late Miocene of Sofular (Türkiye, Early Turolian)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(2): 305-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/27705
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/27705
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/27705/24225
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Fernando Blanco, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Óscar Sanisidro, Faysal Bibi, Nicola S. Heckeberg, María Ríos, Bastien Mennecart, María Teresa Alberdi, Jose Luis Prado, Juha Saarinen, Daniele Silvestro, Johannes Müller, Joaquín Calatayud & Juan L. Cantalapiedra (2025)
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution
Nature Communications 16: 4648
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59974-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59974-x
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Alejandro G. Kramarz, Eduardo S. Bellosi, Mariano Bond, Analía M. Forasiepi, Mercedes Fernández, Juan Carlos Fernicola, Guillermo Aguirrezabala & Daniella Teixeira de Rezende (2025)
Uneven landscapes inhabited by middle Miocene mammals from La Pava and Collón Cura formations in North Patagonia
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00365-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00365-6
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Anna Rufà, Montserrat Sanz & Joan Daura (2025)
Deciphering the diet of the Iberian lynx: Insights from taphonomic analysis of Pleistocene coprolites
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113086
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113086
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003712
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Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (2025)
Cranial osteology and reassessment of the historically collected South African gorgonopsians FMNH UC 1513 (Lycaenops cf. L. angusticeps) and AMNH FARB 5537 (Lycaenops angusticeps).
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 13: 48-66
doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29406
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29406
Free pdf:
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29406/21469
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Amanda Mourão Santos & Ubirajara Oliveira (2025)
Environmental and Evolutionary Forces Shaping Penguin Geographic Limits
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15179
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.15179
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.15179
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Joe Stembridge-King & Jack Thomas Rhodes Wilkin (2025)
The lifestyle of Spinosaurus
Geology Today 41(3): 118-122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12516
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12516
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gto.12516
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Tasuku Wakabayashi, Kenji Takata, Soichiro Kawabe, Masato Shimada, Takeshi Mugitani, Takuya Yachida, Rikiya Maruyama, Satomi Kanai, Kiyotaka Takeuchi, Tomohiro Kotsuji, Toshiki Tateishi, Hideki Hyodoh and Tetsuya Tsujikawa (2025)
Photon-Counting Detector CT Scan of Dinosaur Fossils: Initial Experience
Journal of Imaging 11(6): 180
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging11060180
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11/6/180
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Spathagnathus roeperi gen. et sp. nov.
Alexandra E. Fernandes, Helmut Tischlinger, Monika Rothgaenger & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2025)
A new species and the earliest occurrence of the Gnathosaurinae (Pterosauria) from the Late Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00725-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00725-0
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Kevin I. Vélez-Rosado, Olga I. Zalles-Grebetskaya, Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Blaire Schoene, Adam Maloof & Bolton Howes (2025)
New material of Dolichochampsa minima (Archosauria: Crocodylia) from the Cretaceous–Palaeogene El Molino Formation of Bolivia sheds light on the early evolution of Gavialinae
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2496524
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2496524
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2496524
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2496524
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A. Pérez-García, E. Espílez, L. Mampel & A. Cobos (2025)
New information on the anatomy and paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic distributions of the British basal turtle Plastremys lata (Helochelydridae) based on its most complete skeleton (lower Albian, Spain)
Cretaceous Research 106179
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106179
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125001028
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Walter G. Joyce (2025)
Overcoming polymorphism: a revised list of shell characters for the phylogenetic analysis of soft-shelled turtles (Pan-Trionychidae)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 25
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00360-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00360-x
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Dorota Konietzko-Meier, Andrea Prino & Elżbieta M. Teschner (2025)
Hips do not lie… histology of the pelvic girdle elements of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Poland.
Fossil Record 28(1): 165-178
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e153929
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/153929/
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Rodolfo Otávio Santos, Mark Wilkinson & Hussam Zaher (2025)
An overview of the postcranial osteology of caecilians (Gymnophiona, Lissamphibia)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70000
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70000
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70000
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Christophe Ferrante & Lionel Cavin (2025)
A deep dive into the coelacanth phylogeny
PLoS One 20(6): e0320214
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320214
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320214
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Amin El Fassi El Fehri, Alice M. Clement, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Merle Greif & Christian Klug (2025)
A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans.
PeerJ 13: e19389
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19389
https://peerj.com/articles/19389/
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Jesús Alvarado-Ortega, Stephanie Pacheco-Ordaz, Bruno Andrés Than-Marchese, Nayeli Lupercio-Espericueta, Braulio Renato de Jesus Capistrán-Romero, and Jesús Alberto Díaz-Cruz (2025)
The Sumidero Quarry, an Albian fossil fish site in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a23.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1437
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5541-sumidero-quarry
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Iacopo Cavicchini, Thodoris Argyriou, Vincent Fernandez, Kathleen Dollman & Sam Giles (2025)
Redescription of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Triassic of East Greenland, with implications for the ontogeny of early actinopterygians
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2492673
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2492673
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2492673
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2492673
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Tiiu Märss (2025)
On the Silurian and lowermost Devonian vertebrates of the Ufa Amphitheatre, the Central Urals, with emphasis on agnathans and correlations with the East Baltic
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 74(2): 96–119
doi: https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2025.07
Free pdf:
https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/earth-2-2025-96-119_20250602163804.pdf?v=7516fd43adaa
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Vishruth Venkataraman, Marco Lopez, Victoria E. Prince & Michael I. Coates (2025)
Re-make, re-model: evolution and development of vertebrate cranial lateral lines
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70045
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70045
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.70045
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Venanzio Munyaka, Kennedy Oginga, Susanne Cote, Jason Head, William Lukens, James Lutz, Rahab Kinyanjui, Fredrick Manthi, Kieran McNulty, Abigail Hall, Amanda Tegart & Daniel Peppe (2025)
Insights on the Paleoclimate and Paleoecology of an Early Miocene Hominoid Site: A Multiproxy Study From Koru, Western Kenya
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 40(6): e2025PA005152
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005152
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025PA005152
Free pdf:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025PA005152
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Angelica Fiorillo, Maurizio Gatta, Mario Federico Rolfo & Leonardo Salari (2025)
Taxonomic and taphonomic analysis of Late Pleistocene faunal remains from several karst fillings at Cava Muracci travertine quarry (Cisterna di Latina, central Italy): a comprehensive study
Quaternary International 738: 109859
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109859
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225002022
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Nadir Fawad, Daidu Fan, Taixun Liu, Muhammad Kamran & Qazi Adnan Ahmed (2025)
Unravelling the Pleistocene climatic evolution in the Siwaliks: Implications for hominin settlement in the upper Soan Valley, Pakistan
Journal of Palaeogeography 100262
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.100262
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625000689
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Camille Rossignol, Antoine Logghe, Vincent Luccisano, Xiao Shi, Nathan Cogné, Marc Poujol, Alan Pradel, Sylvie Bourquin, Gian Luigi Pillola, Héctor Botella, Fabrizio Cocco, Alfredo Loi, Daniele Fois, Paolo Stara & Luigi Sanciu (2025)
New age constraints for the Perdasdefogu Basin, Italy: implications for vertebrate paleobiogeography during the early Permian
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113085
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113085
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003700
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Annabelle Aish, Chris Broeckhoven, Valentin Buffa, Tom Challands, Anton Du Plessis, Tom Fletcher, Eberhard Frey, Romain Garrouste, Alexandra Houssaye, Guillaume Lecointre, Valentina Perricone, Luce-Marie Petit, Vikram Shyam, Thomas Speck & Michael Habib (2025)
Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation
Communications Biology 8: 706
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08043-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08043-6