Paranthropus capensis + Megantereon canines + cave lions + Allosaurus europaeus + Elseya mudburra + Anosteira crowcreekensis + Carinodens acrodon + Amakusaichthys benammii + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope the new year has started well for all.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Paranthropus capensis comb. nov.
Clément Zanolli, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Ottmar Kullmer, Friedemann Schrenk, Lazarus Kgasi, Mirriam Tawane & Song Xing (2025)
Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization
Journal of Human Evolution 200: 103634
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103634
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001428
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Ryosuke Goto, Susan Larson, Tetsuya Shitara, Yu Hashiguchi & Yoshihiko Nakano (2024)
Muscle synergy in several locomotor modes in chimpanzees and Japanese macaques, and its implications for the evolutionary origin of bipedalism through shared muscle synergies
Scientific Reports 14: 31134
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82479-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82479-4
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Keiko Kitagawa, Daniel Burger-Völlmecke, Sam Brown, Jesper Olsen & Felix Riede (2025)
Paleolithic occupations in the Lahn Valley of Central Germany: New dating and ZooMS results from Wildscheuer, Wildweiberlei, and Wildhaus
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 61: 104951
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104951
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24005790
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Pere Gelabert, Victoria Oberreiter, Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel Ramón González Morales, Susanna Sawyer, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne Marie Geiling, Florian Exler, Florian Brueck, Stefan Franz, Fernanda Tenorio Cano, Sophie Szedlacsek, Evelyn Zelger, Michelle Hämmerle, Brina Zagorc, Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano, Olivia Cheronet, José-Miguel Tejero, Thomas Rattei, Stephan M. Kraemer & Ron Pinhasi (2025)
A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain
Nature Communications 16: 107
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55740-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55740-7
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Mauricio Antón, Gema Siliceo, Juan Francisco Pastor, Qigao Jiangzuo & Manuel J. Salesa (2024)
Exposed weapons: A revised reconstruction of the facial anatomy and life appearance of the saber-toothed cat Megantereon (Felidae, Machairodontinae)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25622
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25622
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25622
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Joan Madurell-Malapeira, Ibon Barrasa Morondo, Saverio Bartolini-Lucenti, Maria Prat-Vericat, Ainara Badiola, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Asier Gómez-Olivencia & Lorenzo Rook (2024)
A review on Iberian and Italian occurrences of Quaternary lions
Earth History and Biodiversity 100016
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100016
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000169
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Olga F. Chernova (2024)
Comparative analysis of hair microstructure in the cave lion (Panthera spelaea): A review
Earth History and Biodiversity 2: 100014
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100014
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000145
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Artem Nedoluzhko, Gennady Boeskorov, Alexei Tikhonov & Albert Protopopov (2024)
20th anniversary of the history of genetic research on cave lions: A short review
Earth History and Biodiversity 2: 100013
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100013
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000133
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Olga K. Borisova (2024)
Habitation conditions of the cave lion in the middle Indigirka River basin, North-East Siberia, during the Middle and Late Pleniglacial: Reconstruction based on palynological data
Earth History and Biodiversity 2: 100012
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100012
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000121
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Alain ARGANT & Jacqueline ARGANT (2024)
About the origin and environment of Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810)
Earth History and Biodiversity 2: 100010
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100010
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000108
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Hervé Bocherens & Irina V. Kirillova (2025)
Cave lion: Isotopes and dietary paleoecology
Earth History and Biodiversity 3: 100015
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100015
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000157
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Doua C Xiong, Brian L Beatty & Morgan Churchill (2024)
Temporalis attachment area as a proxy for feeding ecology in toothed whales (Artiodactyla: Odontoceti)
PaleoBios 41(3): 1-29
doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P941361509
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vm8c6wc
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Shixia Xu, Lei Shan, Ran Tian, Zhenpeng Yu , Di Sun, Zhenhua Zhang, Inge Seim, Ming Zhou, Linxia Sun, Na Liang, Qian Zhang, Simin Chai, Daiqing Yin, Luoying Dime, Tianzhen Wu, Yongjie Chen, Zhikang Xu, Yu Zheng, Wenhua Ren & Guang Yang (2025)
Multi-level genomic convergence of secondary aquatic adaptation in marine mammals
The Innovation 100798
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100798
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825000013
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Stephen R. Frankenberg, Sarah Lucas, Charles Y. Feigin, Liliya Doronina, Raphael Steffen, Gabrielle Hartley, Patrick Grady, Brandon R. Menzies, Ricardo De Paoli- Iseppi, Stephen Donnellan, Mitzi Klein, Axel Newton, Jay R. Black, Michael Clark, Steven Cooper,, Rachel O’Neill, Nathan Clark,, Jürgen Schmitz & Andrew J. Pask (2025)
Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole
Science Advances 11(1): eado4140
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado4140
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado4140
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.ado4140
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Célia Cristina Clemente Machado, Vivianne Albano de Lucena, Nathália Fernandes Canassa, David Holanda de Oliveira & Helder Farias Pereira de Araujo (2024)
Effects of paleoclimatic variables on suitable open habitats for Pleistocene–Holocene megafauna in South America
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2024.33
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Louise Martin, Joe Roe & Lisa Yeomans (2025)
Late Pleistocene-Holocene mammalian body size change in Jordan's Azraq Basin: A case for climate driven species distribution shifts
Quaternary Science Reviews 350: 109147
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109147
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124006498
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Christian Foth, Thomas van de Kamp, Helmut Tischlinger, Theron Kantelis, Ryan M. Carney, Marcus Zuber, Elias Hamann, Jonathan J. W. Wallaard, Norbert Lenz, Oliver W. M. Rauhut & Eberhard Frey (2025)
A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic).
Fossil Record 28(1): 17-43
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e131671
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/131671/
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Alan Cannell & Federico J. Degrange (2024)
Into Thin Air: The Loss of the Pliocene Giant Volant Birds
Evolving Earth 100055
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2024.100055
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950117224000256
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André Burigo and Octávio Mateus (2025)
Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) Revisited and Taxonomy of the Genus
Diversity 17(1): 29
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010029
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/1/29
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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2024)
Opinion 2511 (Case 3815) – TYRANNOSAURIDAE Osborn, 1906 (Dinosauria, Theropoda): usage conserved by reversing precedence with DEINODONTIDAE Cope, 1866 and DRYPTOSAURIDAE Marsh, 1890
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 81: 156-157
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/86727/81465
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David W.E. Hone & Skye N. McDavid (2025)
A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines.
PeerJ 13: e18587
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18587
https://peerj.com/articles/18587/
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Naïs Caron Delbosc, Nicolas Boyer, Nicolas Mathevon & Nicolas Grimault (2024)
Crocodile mothers’ response to hatching calls
Animal Behaviour 123040
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.11.018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347224003506
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Marcos Martín-Jiménez & Adán Pérez-García (2025)
The first neuroanatomical study of a marine pleurodire (the large Paleocene bothremydid Azzabaremys moragjonesi) reveals convergences with other clades of pelagic turtles.
Fossil Record 28(1): 1-15
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e130418
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/130418/
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Elseya camfieldensis sp. nov.
Elseya mudburra sp. nov.
Mehdi Joseph-Ouni, Adam M. Yates and William P. McCord (2024)
The Camfield Fossil Chelid Fauna: I. Two new species of Australian Elseya (Testudines: Chelidae).
Australian Journal of Taxonomy 75: 1–14.
doi: https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.262nv
https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/rmxk73t2tl
Free pdf:
https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/_files/ugd/173494_ffa94b6589b84fd7bd3a632e338df2a8.pdf
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Anosteira crowcreekensis sp. nov.
Howard Hutchison & James W. Westgate (2024)
Reptiles from the late Eocene Jackson Group of Arkansas
PaleoBios 41(4): 1-11
doi: https://doi.org/10.5070/P941438517
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pm4g7xw
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Carinodens acrodon sp. nov.
Nicholas R. Longrich, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nour-Eddine Jalil and Nathalie Bardet (2025)
A New Species of the Durophagous Mosasaurid Carinodens from the Late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and Implications for Maastrichtian Mosasaurid Diversity
Diversity 17(1): 25
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010025
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/1/25
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Katherine B. Starr, Emma Sherratt & Thomas J. Sanger (2024)
Large morphological transitions underlie exceptional shape diversification in an adaptive radiation [Anolis]
Scientific Reports 14: 31884
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83404-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-83404-5
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Aaron M. Kufner, Max E. Deckman, Hannah R. Miller, Calvin So, Brandon R. Price & David M. Lovelace (2024)
A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Triassic) and an assessment of skeletal sorting in temnospondyls
bioRxiv 2024.12.28.630624 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.28.630624
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.28.630624v1
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Michel Laurin (2024)
Habitat of early stegocephalians (Chordata, Vertebrata, Sarcopterygii): a little saltier than most paleontologists like?
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates.
Fossil Record 27(3): 299-232
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.e123291
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/123291/
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Ralf Werneburg & Florian Witzmann (2024)
The last eryopids: Clamorosaurus and Syndyodosuchus from the late Kungurian (Cisuralian, Permian) of Russia revisited.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates.
Fossil Record 27(3): 353-380
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.e125460
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/125460/
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Raphael Moreno, Sanjukta Chakravorti, Samuel L. A. Cooper & Rainer R. Schoch (2024)
Unexpected temnospondyl diversity in the early Carnian Grabfeld Formation (Germany) and the palaeogeography of metoposaurids.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates
Fossil Record 27(3): 381-400
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.121996
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/121996/list/9/
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Rainer R. Schoch, Florian Witzmann, Raphael Moreno, Ralf Werneburg & Eudald Mujal (2024)
Growing giants: ontogeny and life history of the temnospondyl Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Stereospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Germany.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates
Fossil Record 27(3): 401-422
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.125379
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/125379/
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Pummy Roy, Sanjukta Chakravorti & Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta (2024)
Osteology and revised diagnosis of Cherninia denwai from the Middle Triassic Denwa Formation, Satpura Gondwana Basin, Central India.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates
Fossil Record 27(3): 423-443
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.135664
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/135664/list/9/
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Timothy R. Smithson, Marcello Ruta & Jennifer A. Clack (2024)
On Ossirarus kierani, a stem tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Burnmouth, Berwickshire, Scotland, and the phylogeny of early tetrapods.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates.
Fossil Record 27(3): 333-352
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.e126410
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/126410/
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Kim Julia Kean, Marylène Danto, Celeste Pérez-Ben & Nadia Belinda Fröbisch (2024)
Evolution of the tetrapod skull: a systematic review of bone loss.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates
Fossil Record 27(3): 445-471
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.133803
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/133803/
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Ingmar Werneburg (2024)
Terrestrialisation and the cranial architecture of tetrapods.
In: Witzmann F, Ruta M, Fröbisch N (Eds) The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates
Fossil Record 27(3): 473-497
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.27.137860
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/137860/
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Chelsea M. Comans, Thomas S. Tobin & Rebecca L. Totten (2025)
Oxygen isotope composition of teeth suggests endothermy and possible migration in some Late Cretaceous shark taxa from the Gulf Coastal Plain, USA
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.45
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Ronald Böttcher (2024)
Root resorption during tooth replacement in sharks – a unique character of the Hybodontiformes (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii)
Palaeodiversity 17(1): 121-194
doi: https://doi.org/10.18476/pale.v17.a6
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Amakusaichthys benammii sp. nov.
Jesús Alvarado-Ortega (2024)
Amakusaichthys benammii sp. nov., a Campanian long-nose ichthyodectiform fish from the Tzimol Quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico.
Palaeontologia Electronica 27(3): a59.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1444
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5295-a-long-nose-ichthyodectiform
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Soledad Gouric-Cavalli, Florencia Milanese, Bárbara Cariglino, Ari Iglesias & Marcelo Reguero (2024)
Ray-finned fish scales from the Late Jurassic of Antarctica
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.5710/amgh.16.12.2024.3612
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/123
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Krister T. Smith, Margaret Collinson, Annelise Folie, Jörg Habersetzer, Florian Hennicke, Erika Kothe, Thomas Lehmann, Olaf K. Lenz, Gerald Mayr, Norbert Micklich, Renate Rabenstein, Rachel Racicot, Stephan F. K. Schaal, Thierry Smith, Aixa Tosal, Dieter Uhl, Torsten Wappler, Sonja Wedmann & Michael Wuttke (2024)
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104: 859–940
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00633-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00633-2
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Dieter Uhl, Michael Wuttke, Manuela Aiglstorfer, Carole T. Gee, Federica Grandi, Olaf Höltke, Thomas M. Kaiser, Uwe Kaulfuss, Daphne Lee, Thomas Lehmann, Oriol Oms, Markus J. Poschmann, Michael W. Rasser, Thomas Schindler, Krister T. Smith, Peter Suhr, Torsten Wappler & Sonja Wedmann (2024)
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104: 763 - 848
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00635-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00635-0
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Nick Thompson, Ulrich Salzmann, David K. Hutchinson, Stephanie L. Strother, Matthew Pound, Torsten Utescher, Julia Brugger, Thomas Hickler, Emma Hocking & Daniel J. Lunt (2025)
Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene
Earth-Science Reviews 261: 105036
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.105036
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825224003647
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Shabir Ahmad, Mushtaq Ahmad, Izhar Ullah, Syed Nohman Gilani, Ateef Ullah, Hussain Shah, Huma Gul, Muhammad Abdullah, Syed Waseem Gillani, Muhammad Manzoor, et al.Amir Shahzad, Rashid Iqbal, Khushdil Khan, Noorulain Soomro, Mumtaz Ali Bukhari & Shaista Jabeen (2024)
Paleopalynofloras of the Eocene in South Asia
Tropical Natural History 24: 239-245
doi: https://doi.org/10.58837/tnh.24.1.263641
https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/263641
Free pdf:
https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/263641/179505
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Subham Patra & Jahnavi Punekar (2024)
Ocean Acidification Signals Through Deep Time: A Review of Proxies
Evolving Earth 100056
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2024.100056
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950117224000268
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Marin Depraetere, Sara Akhlaq, Verónica Díez Díaz, Ina Heumann & Daniela Schwarz (2025)
Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913): More Than 100 years of Data-Meta-paradata Management for Improved Standardisation
In: Ioannides, M., Baker, D., Agapiou, A., Siegkas, P. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15190. Springer, Cham.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8
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NOTE that the entire volume is Open Access:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0
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Abstracts:
14th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Abstracts Zagreb, 11-15 September 2024
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/1209
Free pdf:
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/1209/1214
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Libro de resúmenes del 4th Annual Meeting International Geoscience Programme 735
4th Annual Meeting of the IGCP 735 (abstracts book)
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 24(5)(R)
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/524/873
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The new International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2024/12 of Geologic Time
pdf:
https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2024-12.pdf
jpeg:
https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2024-12.jpg
https://stratigraphy.org/chart
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Golden Spikes
https://stratigraphy.org/gssps/
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New golden spikes published in 2024
Langhian Stage (Miocene)
Episodes 47(2): 311-333
https://www.episodes.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2023/023024
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Barremian Stage (Cretaceous)
Episodes 47(2): 335-379
https://www.episodes.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2023/02330
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Mnemonics for Updated Geologic Time Periods
The most commonly repeated memory-cheat that I’m aware of is:
Camels Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Perhaps Engine Oil Might Permit Proper Handling.
This sequence mixes geologic time periods with Cenozoic epochs, ignoring the currently recognized Cenozoic geologic periods Neogene, Paleogene, and Quaternary, as well as the recently added Precambrian Ediacaran Period.
For what it's worth, this is my attempt to expand clues to the names of officially established geologic time periods (matching first three or four letters with similar pronunciation where possible), and add the now recognized Ediacaran Period (2004) and the commonly used subperiods Mississippian and Pennsylvanian.
Since a certain amount of absurdity seems to be permitted, I suppose this can be imagined as a courtroom scene in which camels wearing mortarboards are seated as spectators and start chomping on over-priced gourmet cardboard while the trial jurors are creating doodles of quadrangles with fluorescent crayons. Note that camels will happily eat cardboard (check videos online) but may not be very silent unless edified, and pale neon is a color tone. In an earlier version, I had “pale neon quaffs” (neon cocktails being a thing), but decided on something more family friendly.
Edified camels, ordinarily silent, devour cardboard (misspent pennies!), perturbing trial jurors creating pale neon quadrangles.
EDIacaran -- CAMbrian -- ORDovician -- SILurian -- DEVonian -- CARboniferous (MISSissippian -- PENNsylvanian) -- PERmian -- TRIAssic -- JURassic -- CREtaceous -- PALEogene -- NEOgene – QUAternary
For the Paleozoic only…
Camels, ordinarily silent, devour cardboard percussively.