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Manuel J. Salesa, Bárbara Hernández, Pilar Marín, Gema Siliceo, Irene Martínez, Mauricio Antón, María Isabel García-Real, Juan Francisco Pastor & Rosa Ana García-Fernández (2024)

New insights on the ecology and behavior of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) through the paleopathological study of the fossil sample from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) of Cerro de los Batallones (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain)

Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31: 21

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09721-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-024-09721-8

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Eimear Byrne, Robert D. Johnston, David Kilroy & Sourav Bhattacharjee (2024)

An arch worth revisiting: A study on the feline humeral supracondylar foramen and its evolutionary significance

Biology Open bio.060420.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060420

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/doi/10.1242/bio.060420/352249/An-arch-worth-revisiting-A-study-on-the-feline

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Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Mirella H. Skiba and Thomas M. Kaiser (2024)

Prey size reflected in tooth wear: a comparison of two wolf populations from Sweden and Alaska

Interface Focus 14(3): 20230070

doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0070

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0070

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Afrophoca libyca (“phocid”) = Afromeryx zelteni (anthracothere)

Martin Pickford and Christian De Muizon (2024)

The affinities of Afrophoca libyca from basal Middle Miocene of Gebel Zelten, Libya

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(2): 243-247

doi: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01152.2024

https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011522024.html

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Daniel Varajão de Latorre and Charles R Marshall (2024)

Evolutionary allometry of the canid baculum (Carnivora: Mammalia)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae048,

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae048

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blae048/7686617

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Bramiscus micros gen. et sp. nov.

María Ríos, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Nikos Solounias (2024)

A new giraffid Bramiscus micros nov. gen. nov. sp. (Ruminantia, Giraffidae) from the Miocene of northern Pakistan.

Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a29

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1243

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5228-new-giraffid-genus

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Douglas R. Cavener, Monica L. Bond, Lan Wu-Cavener, George G. Lohay, Mia W. Cavener, Xiaoyi Hou, David L. Pearce & Derek E. Lee (2024)

Sexual dimorphisms in body proportions of Masai giraffes and the evolution of the giraffe’s neck

Mammalian Biology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00424-4

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-food-sex-drove-evolution-giraffes.html

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Danielle Fraser, Natalia Rybczynski, Marisa Gilbert & Mary R. Dawson (2024)

Post-Eocene Rhinocerotid Dispersal via the North Atlantic

bioRxiv 2024.06.04.597351 (preprint)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.04.597351

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.04.597351v1

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Gustavo Macêdo do Carmo, Sueli de Souza Lima, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Ralph Maturano Pinheiro, Diogo Jorge de Melo & Graziella Couto-Ribeiro (2024)

Checklist paleofaunístico da Formação Tremembé (Oligoceno da Bacia de Taubaté, Vale do Paraíba, Brasil)

Terrae Didatica 20(00): e024013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/td.v20i00.8674375

https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8674375/33980

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Fluvioviridavis nazensis sp. nov.

Fluvioviridavis michaeldanielsi sp. nov.

Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)

The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00610-9

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00610-9

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Phoebe L. McInerney, Jacob C. Blokland &Trevor H. Worthy (2024)

Skull morphology of the enigmatic Genyornis newtoni Stirling and Zeitz, 1896 (Aves, Dromornithidae), with implications for functional morphology, ecology, and evolution in the context of Galloanserae

Historical Biology 35(6): 1093-1165

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308212

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Elif Duran, Juan Olvido Perea-García, Diede Piepenbrock, Celine Veefkind, Mariska E. Kret & Jorg J. M. Massen (2024)

Preliminary evidence that eye appearance in parrots (Psittaciformes) co-varies with latitude and altitude

Scientific Reports 14: 12859

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63599-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63599-3

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Prateek Dey, Swapna Devi Ray, Venkata Hanumat Sastry Kochiganti, Budhan S. Pukazhenthi, Klaus-Peter Koepfli & Ram Pratap Singh (2024)

Mitogenomic Insights into the Evolution, Divergence Time, and Ancestral Ranges of Coturnix Quails

Genes 15(6): 742

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15060742

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/15/6/742

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Jack Lovegrove, Paul Upchurch & Paul M. Barrett (2024)

Untangling the tree or unravelling the consensus? Recent developments in the quest to resolve the broad-scale relationships within Dinosauria

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1): 2345333

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2345333

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2345333

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P. Mocho, A. Pérez-García & V.A. Codrea (2024)

New sauropod appendicular remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania: accessing the morphological variability.

Cretaceous Research 105936

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105936

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124001095

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Jean-David MOREAU, Romain VULLO, Elsie BICHR, Jérôme THOMAS, Georges GAND, Cyril GAGNAISON, Pascal BARRIER & Didier NÉRAUDEAU (2024)

Crocodylomorph and dinosaur tracks from the lowermost Jurassic of Le Veillon (western France): ichnotaxonomic revision of the type material (Lapparent collection).

Geodiversitas 46(8): 343-366

doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a8

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/46/8

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William G. Parker and Atrayee Haldar (2024)

A lateral osteoderm from Kryphioparma caerula (Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona

Lithodendron 1: 31-44

doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/GUWJ4108

https://petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron/lithodendron/a-lateral-osteoderm-from-kryphioparma-caerula-from-the-upper-triassic/

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Adam D. Marsh, Christian A. Sidor and Elliot Armour Smith (2024)

The allokotosaur (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) assemblage from a multitaxic bonebed in the Sonsela Member (Jim Camp Wash Beds, Chinle Formation) at Petrified Forest National Park, U.S.A.

Lithodendron 1: 95-118

doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/FAIY7658

https://petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron/lithodendron/the-allokotosaur-assemblage-from-a-multitaxic-bonebed-at-petrified-forest/

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Jendrian Riedel, Katrin Eisele, Mariam Gabelaia, Timothy E. Higham, Joseph Wu, Quyen Hanh Do, Truong Quang Nguyen, Camila G. Meneses, Rafe M. Brown, Thomas Ziegler, L. Lee Grismer, Anthony P. Russell, Dennis Rödder (2024)

Ecologically-related variation of digit morphology in Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata) reveals repeated origins of incipient adhesive toepads

Functional Ecology (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14597

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.14597

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Jacob G. Quinn, Evangelos R. Matheau-Raven, David I. Whiteside, John E. A. Marshall, Deborah J. Hutchinson & Michael J. Benton (2024)

The relationships and paleoecology of Pachystropheus rhaeticus, an enigmatic latest Triassic marine reptile (Diapsida: Thalattosauria)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e2350408

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408

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Adán Pérez-García, Andrea Guerrero, Santiago Martín de Jesús, and Francisco Ortega (2024)

Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis.

Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a28

doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1388

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5220-shell-of-neochelys-zamorensis

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Michael Wuttke, Markus J. Poschmann, Torsten Wappler, Johannes M. Bouchal, Christian Geier, Silvia Ulrich & Friðgeir Grímsson (2024)

Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00603-8

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00603-8

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Luke J. P. Rose, Andrew B. Heckert, Bruce Lauer and Rene Lauer (2024)

Description of a new Upper Triassic fossil lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) locality from the Garita Creek Formation, East-Central New Mexico, with a reevaluation of Late Triassic lungfish diversity in the American Southwest

Lithodendron 1: 145-170

doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/HDWG3456

https://petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron/lithodendron/description-of-a-new-upper-triassic-fossil-lungfish-locality-from-the-garita-creek-formation-new-mexico/

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Phillip C. Sternes, Lars Schmitz & Timothy E. Higham (2024)

The rise of pelagic sharks and adaptive evolution of pectoral fin morphology during the Cretaceous

Current Biology (advance online publication)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.016

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00614-6

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Simpsonigobius nerimanae gen. et sp. nov.

Moritz Dirnberger, Elena Bauer & Bettina Reichenbacher (2024)

A new freshwater gobioid from the Lower Miocene of Turkey in a significantly amended total evidence phylogenetic framework

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(10): 2340498

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2340498

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2340498

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http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org.pub:5000841F-1836-43D8-BE75-4C090A478566

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Chase D. Brownstein, Katerina L. Zapfe, Spencer Lott, Richard Harrington, Ava Ghezelayagh, Alex Dornburg & Thomas J. Near (2024)

Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean

Current Biology 34(11): 2541-2550.e4

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.066

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00576-1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224005761

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Fabienne Ziadi-Künzli, Ken Maeda, Pavel Puchenkov & Mahesh M. Bandi (2024)

Anatomical insights into fish terrestrial locomotion: A study of barred mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus) fins based on μCT 3D reconstructions

Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14071

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14071

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“Conger” biaculeatus sp. nov., Bauzaia gibbosa sp. nov., Ampheristus brevicaudatus sp. nov., Symmetrosulcus virginicus sp. nov., Neobythites longesulcatus sp. nov., “Neobythites” pamunkeyensis sp. nov., “Neobythites” stringeri sp. nov., Waitakia dorsogibbosa sp. nov., “Haemulon” ypresiensis sp. nov.

Chien-Hsiang LIN, Etienne STEURBAUT & Dirk NOLF (2024)

Early Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA.

European Journal of Taxonomy 935: 203–240

doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.935.2557

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/european-journal-taxonomy/935/203

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Carla San Román, Hugo Martín-Abad & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2024)

A geometric morphometric protocol to correct postmortem body arching in fossil fishes

PeerJ 12:e17436

doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17436

https://peerj.com/articles/17436/

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Jens Højgaard Jensen, Jeppe C. Dyre & Tina Hecksher (2024)

Universal wing- and fin-beat frequency scaling.

PLoS ONE 19(6): e0303834

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303834

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303834

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Julia Dong Hwa Oh, Lu Freem, Dillan D. Z. Saunders, Lynn McTeir, Hazel Gilhooley, Melany Jackson, James D. Glover, Jonathan Smith, Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck, Laura A. Lettice, Helen M. Sang & Megan G. Davey (2024)

Insights into digit evolution from a fate map study of the forearm using Chameleon, a new transgenic chicken line

Development dev.202340.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202340

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/doi/10.1242/dev.202340/352272/Insights-into-digit-evolution-from-a-fate-map

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Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, René Hoffmann, Dirk Fuchs, Alexander Pohle, Robert Weis & Kenneth De Baets (2024)

Anatomy and size of Megateuthis, the largest belemnite

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143: 23

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00320-x

https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-024-00320-x

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Weijia Huang and Xin Wang (2024)

Flower Buds Confirmed in the Early Cretaceous of China

Biology 13(6): 413

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13060413

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/6/413

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Ryan T. Tucker, James L. Crowley, Michael T. Mohr, Ray K. Renaut, Peter J. Makovicky & Lindsay E. Zanno (2023)

Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum

Geology 51(10): 962–967

https://doi.org/10.1130/G51278.1

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G51278.1/627460/Exceptional-age-constraint-on-a-fossiliferous

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Sandra Kirtland Turner, Andy Ridgwell, Allison L Keller, Maximilian Vahlenkamp, Adam K Aleksinski, Philip F Sexton, Donald E Penman, Pincelli M Hull & Richard D Norris (2024)

Sensitivity of ocean circulation to warming during the Early Eocene greenhouse

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(24): e2311980121

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2311980121

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311980121

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Lauren E. Burton, Alan M. Haywood, Julia C. Tindall, Aisling M. Dolan, Daniel J. Hill, Erin L. McClymont, Sze Ling Ho, and Heather L. Ford (2024)

The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene.

Climate of the Past 20(5): 1177-1194

doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1177-2024

https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1177/2024/