Tanana Valley mammoth ivory tools + Flandriacetus + Manipulonyx + Cryptovaranoides + giant proboscidean and sauropod speed + more free pdfs

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler
bcre...@gmail.com

I hope all are well.

Abstracts Books:

International Cretaceous Symposium 2025 abstracts book

https://www.cretaceous2025.de/assets/cretaceous2025_bookofabstracts.pdf

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Boletim Paleontologia em Destaque 40(82) (2025): Boletim de Resumos PALEOs 2024  (abstracts book)

https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/paleodest/issue/view/153

Free pdf:
https://sbpbrasil.org/publications/index.php/paleodest/issue/view/153/94

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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:

Basran Burhan, Budianto Hakim, Iwan Sumantri, Suryatman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Ratno Sardi, Hasliana, Muhammad Ramli, Linda Siagian, Andi Jusdi, Abdullah, Fardi Ali Syahdar, Hamrullah, Imran Ilyas, Putra Hudlinas Muhammad, Sofyan Setia Budi, Nur Ihsan Djindar, Shinatria Adhityatama, Rustan Lebe, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Irfan Mahmud, Akin Duli, Yinika L. Perston, Mark W. Moore, Mariana Sontag-González, Bo Li, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Maxime Aubert, Rainer Grün, David P. McGahan, Michelle C. Langley, Emma C. James, Tiina Manne, Ian Moffat, Brian Jones & Adam Brumm (2025)
A near-continuous archaeological record of Pleistocene human occupation at Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
PLoS One 20(12): e0337993.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0337993
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337993

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Brian T. Wygal, Kathryn E. Krasinski, Lillian Barber, Charles E. Holmes & Barbara A. Crass (2025)
Stone and mammoth ivory tool production, circulation, and human dispersals in the middle Tanana Valley, Alaska: Implications for the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas
Quaternary International 755: 110087
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110087
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225004306

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Felix Snoodijk, Teresa Calderón, George A. Lyras & Alexandra A. E. van der Geer (2025)
Delayed skeletal maturity in dwarf, medium and giant Pleistocene insular deer (Candiacervus) indicating a slower life history regardless size shift
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 78
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00413-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00413-1

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Flandriacetus gijseni gen. et sp. nov.

Klaas Post, Mark Bosselaers & Dirk Munsterman (2025)
A new longirostrine beaked whale Flandriacetus gijseni gen. et sp. nov. (Ziphiidae, Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Tortonian of the North Sea Basin
Deinsea 23: 1–31.
doi:10.5281/ZENODO.17880020
https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_23/Deinsea_2025_Post_et_al._DEF.pdf

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Wu Yong, Sun Boyang, Sun Danhui, Jiang Zuoqigao, Du Jiayun, Jin Yuqing, Jin Lihong, Quan Yongtao, Wang Hao & Wang Shiqi (2025)
Preliminary report of the Hipparion fauna in Late Miocene from Liangyuan, Lingtai County, Gansu Province, China
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 64(3): 309-327 (in Chinese)
DOI:10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2025023
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250304

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Zhang Tong, Liu Aoran, Qi Haiyan, Quan Yongtao, Pang Libo & Chen Shaokun (2025)
Perissodactyl fossils of the Late Neogene Jingxing Hipparion fauna from the eastern piedmont of the Taihang Mountains
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 64(3): 328–341. (in Chinese)
DOI:10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024044
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250305


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Quentin A. Smith, Catalina P. Tomé, William Gearty, Felisa A. Smith, Daizaburo Shizuka & S. Kathleen Lyons (2025)
Consequences of the Megafauna Extinction: Changes in Food Web Networks on the Edwards Plateau Across the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition
Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(12): e70113
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70113  
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70113

Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70113

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Vlad A. Codrea, László Veress & Erika Posmoșanu (2025)
The Pleistocene vertebrates identified in Roșiori (Bihor County, northwestern Romania)
NYMPHAEA 52: 5-32
https://nymphaea.mtariicrisurilor.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-VLAD-CODREA-LASZLO-VERESS-ERIKA-POSMOSANU.pdf

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G.F. Baryshnikov, E.G. Potapova, D.G. Malikov, D.A. Melnikov, N.V. Kryukova and R.I. Belyaev (2025)
The early hunting dog Xenocyon lycaonoides from the Middle Pleistocene of the Baikal region (Eastern Siberia) and the problem of hypercarnivory in canids
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 454–488
doi:  https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.4.454
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=616

Free pdf:
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_4/TZ_329_4_Baryshnikov.pdf

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Juan Miguel Esteban, Alberto Martín-Serra, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos & Borja Figueirido (2025)
Patterns of spinal motion, kinematic spaces and the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70102
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70102

Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70102

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Qi Liu , Qin-Yang Hua , Shui-Wang He , Lu-Ye Shi , Peng Chen , Yuan-Shuo Ma , Qin Zhang , Xue-Long Jiang , Peng Shi (2025)
Evidence for echolocation in Asian shrew moles
National Science Review, nwaf591
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf591
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf591/8405273

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Gustavo N. Gómez, Fernando J. Fernández, Sara García-Morato, María D. Marin-Monfort, Claudia I. Montalvo, Pamela Steffan, Jonathan Bellinzoni, Ricardo Bonini, María T. Alberdi, Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo & José L. Prado (2025)
Times of changes, the latest Pleistocene micromammal association of the Salto de Piedra site (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10055
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/times-of-changes-the-latest-pleistocene-micromammal-association-of-the-salto-de-piedra-site-buenos-aires-province-argentina/FA2B46821BF55298300C1625C8E000FF
 
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Gary Morgan, H. Gregory McDonald and Nicholas J. Czaplewski (2026)
Possible Coevolution of Vampire Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodus) and Large Xenarthrans (Cingulata, Pilosa) in North America and South America During the Quaternary
Quaternary 9(1): 2
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat9010002 - 24 Dec 2025
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/1/2

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A.O. Averianov and M.V. Sinitsa (2025)
Petrosal bone of a stem placental mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Uzbekistan
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 409–420
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.4.409
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=613

Free pdf:
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_4/TZ_329_4_Averianov2.pdf

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Zhe-Xi Luo, Chang-Fu Zhou, Peishu Li & April I. Neander (2025)
Cranial and middle ear structures of the Early Cretaceous mammal Origolestes (Spalacotherioidea, Trechnotheria, Mammalia)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00683-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00683-0

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Alexander D. Clark, Linnea L. Lungstrom, Samantha J. Clark & Mark W. Westneat (2025)
Biomechanics of raptorial dorsiflexion and tensile material properties of the m. tibialis cranialis tendon in the hindlimbs of hawks and owls
Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (23): jeb251052.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.251052
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/23/jeb251052/370076/Biomechanics-of-raptorial-dorsiflexion-and-tensile

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Helm, C.W., G. Banda, A.S. Carr, H.C. Cawthra, J.C. de Vynck, M.G. Dixon, and A. van den Heever (2025)
Pleistocene Hamerkop Scopus umbretta (Scopidae) tracks and other new avian ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast
Ostrich 96: 233–248
doi: 10.2989/00306525.2025.2591795
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306525.2025.2591795

Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.2989/00306525.2025.2591795

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Abi H. Crane, Juan Benito, Albert Chen, Daniel T. Ksepka & Daniel J. Field (2025)
Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds
BMC Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02487-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-025-02487-4

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Manipulonyx reshetovi gen. et sp. nov.

A.O. Averianov, A.V. Lopatin and A.A. Atuchin (2025)
Forelimb structure and function in a new Late Cretaceous parvicursorine theropod dinosaur from Mongolia
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 382–408
doi:  https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.4.382
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=612

Free pdf:
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_4/TZ_329_4_Averianov1.pdf

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YANG Chun-yan, LIU Jian, ZHANG Yu-guang, YANG Wen-guang, HU Fang & ZENG Ling-jie (2025)
The osteohistological characteristics of Mamenchisaurus guangyuanensis in Jurassic and their biological significance
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 64(3): 342-351
DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2023041
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250306

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Maximilian Scott, Julia A. Gamble, Caleb Marshall Brown, Kirstin S. Brink (2025)
Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70116  
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70116

Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70116

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I.T. Kuzmin, P.P. Skutschas and H.-D. Sues (2025)
Braincase of the earliest known alligatoroid (Crocodylomorpha: Crocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 502–517
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.4.502
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=618

Free pdf:
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_4/TZ_329_4_Kuzmin2.pdf

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I.T. Kuzmin and D.D. Vitenko (2025)
Middle ear anatomy and position of stapes in choristoderes (Reptilia: Neodiapsida)
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 489–501   ·  
doi: https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.4.489
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=617

Free pdf:
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_329_4/TZ_329_4_Kuzmin1.pdf


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Joaquin Pedro Bogado, André Eduardo Piacentini Pinheiro & Pedro S. R. Romano (2025)
A reassessment of the species “Podocnemis” brasiliensis (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 77
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00418-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00418-w

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Quentin Horta-Lacueva , Tobias Uller , Morris Flecks , Mariam Gabelaia , Christy Anna Hipsley , Martin Kirchner , Johannes Müller & Nathalie Feiner (2025)
Neural crest cell biology shapes lizard skull evolution across evolutionary time scales
Evolution Letters, qraf050
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf050
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qraf050/8405196

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Michael W Caldwell, Chase D Brownstein, Dalton L Meyer, Simon G Scarpetta, Michael SY Lee & Tiago R Simões (2025)
Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate
eLife 14:RP107021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.107021.3
https://elifesciences.org/articles/107021
 
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Kelsey M. Jenkins, Rachel C. Fleming, Juan D. Daza & Hans-Dieter Sues (2025)
Evidence for high-frequency hearing in a Permian stem reptile
Nature Communications (unedited preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66956-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66956-6

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Kelsey M. Jenkins, Adam D. B. Behlke & Hans-Dieter Sues (2025)
New anatomical details concerning the cranial structure of the early Permian stem reptile Protorothyris archeri revealed by μCT, with implications for the evolution of olfaction in reptiles
Palaeontology 68(6): e70038
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70038
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70038

Free pdf:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399001360_New_anatomical_details_concerning_the_cranial_structure_of_the_early_Permian_stem_reptile_Protorothyris_archeri_revealed_by_mCT_with_implications_for_the_evolution_of_olfaction_in_reptiles

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Feng Jiajie, Zhou Zhengda, Zhang Ruigang & Liu Jun (2025)
A fossil tooth from the upper Permian Longtan Formation of Chongqing and its significance
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 64(3): 295-308
DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024043
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250303

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Hirofumi Kariyayama, Yusuke Ooi, Hiromu Kashima, Taiki Nakanowatari, Riho Harada, Yoko Yamaguchi & Daichi G. Suzuki (2025)
Hagfish olfactory repertoire illuminates lineage-specific diversification of olfaction in basal vertebrates
iScience 114118
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.11411
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02379-X

Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2825%2902379-X

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Sofía Zdral, Simone Giulio Bordignon, Axel Meyer, Marian A Ros & Joost M Woltering (2025)
Dorsoventral limb patterning in paired appendages emerged via regulatory repurposing of an ancestral posterior fin module
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msaf331
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf331
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msaf331/8403997

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Alexis F. P. Marion, Romain Pechey, Fabien L. Condamine & Guillaume Guinot (2025)
Hopping Hotspots Shaped the Global Biogeography and Diversification of Orectolobiform Sharks
Journal of Biogeography e70121
doi:  https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70121
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.70121

Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.70121

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Luke Nelson, Joshua Doyon, Alison Murray, Don Brinkman & Robert Holmes (2025)
A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada.
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 13: 98–139
doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29410
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29410

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Javier Ruiz, Anthony Romilio, Juha Saarinen, Angélica Torices & Juan Manuel Jiménez-Arenas (2025)
The body mass-maximum speed relationship and the athletic capability of giant proboscideans and sauropods
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-32536-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-32536-3

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Tut Tran, Andrew R.C. Milner, Justin S. Tweet, Donald D. DeBlieux, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, Austin B. Shaffer, James I. Kirkland, Ethan Warner-Cowgill & Vincent L. Santucci (2025)
A visual paleontological inventory of Utah’s National Park Service areas
Geology of the Intermountain West 12: 221-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v12.pp221-292
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/157

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Oscar E. Wilson & John-Paul Zonneveld (2025)
Bioerosive ichnofossils in the holotype of Trachycalyptoides achirense (Glyptodontidae, Cingulata) from the Late Miocene Altiplano of Bolivia
Ichnos (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2025.2605068
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2025.2605068

Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10420940.2025.2605068

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The new issue of The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1)(2025) is out, available with free pdfs at:
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/issue/view/12354

Vahe D. Demirjian (2025)
Case 3802 – Proposal to remove Dicynodon turpior Huene, 1935 (Synapsida, Dicynodontia) from the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 31-33  
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a008
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88073

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Mark T. Young, Yanina Herrera, Eric Wilberg, Sven Sachs, Pascal Abel & Marco Brandalise de Andrade (2025)
Case 3868 – Cricosaurus Wagner, 1858 (Reptilia, Crocodylomorpha, Metriorhynchidae): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Stenosaurus elegans Wagner, 1852 as the type species
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 73-78
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a014
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88084

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Nomenclatural Notes

R. V. Pêgas, Kamila L.N. Bandeira & Rafael C. Silva (2025)
Prestosuchus (Reptilia, Pseudosuchia, Loricata) is available from Krebs, 1976, not Huene, 1938
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 167-170
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a028
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88098
(NOTE: free pdf not yet posted)

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Alvaro Mones (2025)
The correct year of publication of Coloradia brevis Bonaparte (currently Coloradisaurus brevis; Dinosauria, Prosauropoda, Massospondylidae) is 1979, not 1978
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 171-174
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a029
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88099

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Gunnar Bivens, Tyler Greenfield & Brian Curtice (2025)
The authorship of Barosaurus africanus gracilis (currently Tornieria gracilis; Dinosauria, Sauropoda), and designation of a lectotype
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 175-180
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a030
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88100

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Henry N. Thomas (2025)
Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi Huxley, 1859 is the valid name and authority for a Jurassic pterosaur (Pterosauria, Rhamphorhynchidae) from England, not Pterodactylus bucklandi Meyer, 1832
The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 82(1): 185-189
doi: https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v82.a032
https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/88102
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Brad S. Singer, Reishi Takashima, Youjuan Li, Mark D. Schmitz, David Selby, Bradley B. Sageman, Luca G. Podrecca, Hiroshi Nishi, Brian R. Jicha & Toshiro Yamanaka (2025)
Radioisotopic age, osmium isotopes, and global correlation of the Albian-Cenomanian boundary
Geological Society of America (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B38503.1
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/doi/10.1130/B38503.1/722998/Radioisotopic-age-osmium-isotopes-and-global

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Suyash Agrawal, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Bret W. Tobalske, Christopher Rahn & Bo Cheng (2025)
Comparative Neuromechanical Wing-Actuation Architectures of Flapping Flight in Insects, Hummingbirds, and Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems e202500787
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202500787
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202500787

Free pdf:
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aisy.202500787