Speleotherium + Nothronychus forelimb + Falcarius skull + Edmontosaurus mummies + Progeoclemys + Eoherpeton skull + Durialepis braincase + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent or not yet mentioned vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Abstracts Books:
SVP Abstracts Book 2025
https://vertpaleo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025_SVP_Program_Final.pdf
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Geo4Göttingen 2025 Book of Abstracts
https://www.geo4goettingen2025.de/assets/abstracts_geo4goettingen_2025.pdf
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Hyunwoo Jung, Campbell Rolian, David S. Strait & Karen L. Baab (2025)
Evaluating the Evolvability of Paranthropus Cranial Morphology in Relation to Feeding Biomechanics
American Journal of Biological Anthropology 188(2): e70136
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70136
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70136
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Michael Archer, Kim Akerman, Larisa DeSantis, Blake Vermeer Dickson, Suzanne Hand, Lindsay Hatcher, John C. Hellstrom, Geraldine Jacobsen, Julien Louys, Gilbert James Price, Helen Ryan, Kale Sniderman, Kenny Travouillon and Jon Woodhead (2025)
Australia’s First Peoples: hunters of extinct megafauna or Australia’s first fossil collectors
Royal Society Open Science 12(10): 250078
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250078
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250078
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.250078
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Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks & Fulco Scherjon (2025)
On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared.
PLoS One 20(10): e0328218.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328218
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328218
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Thomas W. Plummer, Sonia Harmand, Emma M. Finestone and Evan P. Wilson (2025)
The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowan
Annual Review of Anthropology 54(1): 359–375
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-071923-112250
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-071923-112250
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Annapaola Fedato (2025)
Medical imaging technologies applied to ancient human behaviour and lifestyle
STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research 11(1): e2555066
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2025.2555066
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20548923.2025.2555066
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/20548923.2025.2555066
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Stephen R. Frost (2025)
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions
Annual Review of Anthropology 54(1): 443-458
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-081723-114501
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-081723-114501
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Aida Gómez-Robles, Amy Drennan, Maricci Basa and Alfie Gleeson (2025)
Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2057): 20251507
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1507
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1507
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.1507
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Aurélien Royer, Julien Crétat, Rémi Laffont, Sara Gamboa, Belén Luna, Iris Menéndez, Benjamin Pohl, Sophie Montuire & Manuel Hernández Fernández (2025)
Late Pleistocene temperature patterns in the Western Palearctic: insights from rodent associations compared with general circulation models
Climate of the Past 21(10): 1821-1851
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1821-2025
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1821/2025/
Free pdf:
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1821/2025/cp-21-1821-2025.pdf
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Speleotherium logani gen. et sp. nov.
Richard S. White, Jim I. Mead and Gary S. Morgan (2025)
Logan's austral scrubox, a new ovibovine (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from Muskox Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico
In: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 475-494
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Roman Croitor & Evelyne Crégut (2025)
From continents to islands: tracking the red deer (Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758) and its “troublesome cousin”, the wapiti (Cervus canadensis Erxleben, 1777), in Europe
In: AVERBOUH A. & MASHKOUR M. (eds), The anthropozoology of red deer. Archaeological, historical and ethnographic evidence
Anthropozoologica 60(11): 143-163.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2025v60a11.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/60/11
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/anthropozoologica2025v60a11-hd.pdf
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Wighart V. Koenigswald, Thomas Lehmann & Torsten Wappler (2025)
Extraordinary occlusion of caniniforms in the Eocene Masillabune martini from Messel
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00672-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00672-3
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Tian Xia, Guolei Sun, Guangshuai Liu, Chao Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xibao Wang, Xiufeng Yang, Xiaoyang Wu, Xiaodong Gao & Honghai Zhang (2025)
Genomic Insights Into the Body Size Evolution in Mustelidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)
Ecology and Evolution 15(10): e72286
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72286
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72286
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.72286
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Sarah Barakat, Kennedy Williams, Malte Willmes, Emmanuel Desclaux & Kate Britton (2025)
Multi-isotope analysis of mammalian fauna from the Middle Pleistocene (MIS6) Lazaret Cave: palaeoecological, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological implications
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 68: 105456
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105456
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25004894
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Pauline Basilia, Justyna J Miszkiewicz, George A Lyras, Athanassios Athanassiou, Alexandra A E van der Geer (2025)
Rib remodeling in fossil insular dwarf and mainland elephants from Greece
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, kzaf020
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzaf020
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolinnean/kzaf020/8300400
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Shi-Qi Wang, Qigao Jiangzuo, Faysal Bibi, Chi Zhang, Chunxiao Li, Shijie Li, Jiao Fu, Luda Xing, Hao Jiang, Dingge Guo, Yuan Zhang, Xijun Ni, Jin Meng, and Tao Deng (2025)
Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene
Science Advances 11(43): eadt5079
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt5079
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt5079
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adt5079
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Aditya Kurre and Larisa R. G. DeSantis (2025)
Lost giants, lost functions: palaeodietary insights into the ecological niches of Pleistocene ground sloths
Biology Letters 21(10): 20250158
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0158
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0158
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0158
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Xin Li, Shundong Bi, Julia A. Clarke, Zhongqiu Li, Xichao Zhu, Quansheng Liu, Yajun Peng, Lingling Zhao, Zhiheng Li, and Yanhong Pan (2025)
High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals
Science Advances 11(43): eadw8707
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adw8707
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw8707
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adw8707
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Yalin Cheng, Matthew J. Miller and Fumin Lei (2025)
Molecular Innovations Shaping Beak Morphology in Birds
Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 13: 99–119
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-030424-074906
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-animal-030424-074906
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Gastón E. Lo Coco, Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín & Fernando E. Novas (2025)
Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal birds: implications in the acquisition of flapping flight
BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 113
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02454-z
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02454-z
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David K. Smith (2025)
Forelimb biomechanics in the derived therizinosaur Nothronychus and its relation to the origin of the avian wing
Scientific Reports 15: 36551
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19549-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-19549-8
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William J. Freimuth & Lindsay E. Zanno (2025)
New craniodental materials of Falcarius utahensis (Theropoda: Therizinosauria) reveal patterns of intraspecific variation and cranial evolution in early coelurosaurians
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70080
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70080
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70080
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Andrew G. Flynn, Stephen L. Brusatte, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Jorge García-Girón, Adam J. Davis, C. Will Fenley IV, Caitlin E. Leslie, Ross Secord, Sarah Shelley, Anne Weil, Matthew T. Heizler, Thomas E. Williamson, and Daniel J. Peppe (2025)
Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality
Science 390(6771): 400-404
DOI:10.1126/science.adw3282
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3282
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adw3282
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Paul C. Sereno, Evan T. Saitta, Daniel Vidal, Nathan Myhrvold, María Ciudad Real, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Lauren L. Bop, Tyler M. Keillor, Marcus Eriksen, and Kraig Derstler (2025)
Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
Science (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3536
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3536
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adw3536
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Masaya Iijima, Richard W. Blob, and John R. Hutchinson (2025)
Biomechanical simulations of hindlimb function in Alligator provide insights into postural shifts and body size evolution
Science Advances 11(43): eadx3811
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adx3811
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3811
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adx3811
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Jeremy B. Stout, Tobias Massonne, Joshua X. Samuels & Blaine W. Schubert (2025)
Small, enigmatic alligatoroid from the Middle Eocene Clarno Formation, John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
Fossil Record 28(2): 309-319
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.169148
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/169148/list/9/
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Progeoclemys latipalata gen. et sp. nov.
Evgeniy Zvonok & Igor Danilov (2025)
A Geoclemys-like geoemydid turtle from the middle Eocene of Eastern Europe
Biological Communications 70(2): 121–138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2025.205
https://biocomm.spbu.ru/article/view/19585
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Corentin Bochaton, Wilailuck Naksri, Sirikanya Chantasri, Melada Maneechote, Supalak Mithong, Sophady Heng, Hubert Forestier, Prasit Auetrakulvit, Valéry Zeitoun, Jutinach Bowonsachoti & Julien Claude (2025)
Archaeological Bone Assemblages Trace Changes in Turtle and Tortoise Diversity in Continental Southeast Asia
Peer Community Journal 5: e93
doi: https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.619
https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.619/
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Nicole Klein, Jens Lehmann, Jelle Heijne, Qiang Li, Jean-Philippe Blouet, Herman Winkelhorst and Martin P. Sander (2025)
Primary coarse cancellous bone in Grippia longirostris and another ichthyosauriform from the Lower Triassic of Svalbard
Lethaia 58(4): 1-11
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.4.8
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.4.8
Free pdf:
https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.4.8
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Anton Uliakhin (2025)
Ontogenetic variation of the dissorophid Zygosaurus (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Middle Permian of European Russia
Biological Communications 70(2): 139-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2025.206
https://biocomm.spbu.ru/article/view/19916
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Laura B. PORRO, Elizabeth MARTIN-SILVERSTONE & Emily J. RAYFIELD (2025)
Descriptive anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the tetrapod Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen, 1975 from the Carboniferous of Scotland
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 164-184
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S175569102300018X
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Per E. AHLBERG, Ervīns LUKS̆EVIC̆S, Laura B. PORRO, Valters ALKSNĪTIS & Jamie ROBINSON (2025)
New light on the braincases of Ventastega curonica and Acanthostega gunnari
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 154-163
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000082
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Matt FRIEDMAN, Jorge MONDÉJAR FERNÁNDEZ, Struan C. HENDERSON, Thomas CHALLANDS & Sam GILES (2025)
Braincase and endocast anatomy in porolepiforms (Sarcopterygii: Dipnomorpha): evidence from the Early Devonian (Emsian) ‘porolepidid’ Durialepis edentatus
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 130-146
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000057
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Michael D. Gottfried (2025)
An Early Cretaceous Record of the Mawsoniid Coelacanth Axelrodichthys from Niger
Fossil Studies 3(4): 16
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3040016
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/4/16
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Yunyan MO, Abigail M. CARON & Michael I. COATES (2025)
The early actinopterygian genus Rhadinichthys redefined, the type species ornatissimus redescribed, and the species bearsdeni introduced
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 113-129
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000136
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Harry M. Maisch IV, Martin A. Becker, Victor J. Perez, and Kenshu Shimada
Sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) from the Peace River and Tamiami formations (Late Miocene–Early Pliocene) on the submerged continental shelf.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a49.
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5629-fossil-sharks-and-rays-venice-florida-usa
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5629-fossil-sharks-and-rays-venice-florida-usa
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1529.pdf
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Mohamad Bazzi, Mikael Siversson, Sabine Wintner, Michael Newbrey, Jonathan L. Payne, Nicolás E. Campione, Aubrey J. Roberts, Lisa J. Natanson, Stephen Hall, Tatianna Blake & Benjamin P. Kear (2025)
Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution
Communications Biology 8: 1499
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08930-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08930-y
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Sora L. Kim, Meghan A. Balk, Elizabeth C. Sibert and Lisa Whitenack (2025)
Diving Deeper: Leveraging the Chondrichthyan Fossil Record to Investigate Environmental, Ecological, and Biological Change
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 53: 223–250
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040523-010455
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-040523-010455
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Anastasiia Dubikovska, Marcin Górka, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Małgorzata Bienkowska-Wasiluk, Ewa Świdnicka & Zoltán Barkaszi (2025)
Middle Miocene (Badenian) fishes from the north-west of the Fore-Carpathian Basin
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 65
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00408-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00408-y
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Camilla M. Whittington, Mitchell J. Hodgson and Christopher R. Friesen (2025)
Convergent Evolution of Pregnancy in Vertebrates
Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 13: 189–209
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-111523-102029
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-animal-111523-102029
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Antoine De Comite and Nidhi Seethapathi (2025)
Foot placement control underlies stable locomotion across species
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(43): e2413958122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413958122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413958122
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2413958122
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Franziska R. Blattmann, Charline Ragon, Torsten W. Vennemann, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann, Christian Vérard, Jérôme Kasparian, Maura Brunetti, Hugo F. R. Bucher, Thierry Adatte & Clayton R. Magill (2025)
Wildfire, ecosystem, and climate interactions in the Early Triassic
Communications Earth & Environment 6(1): 1-8
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02789-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02789-x
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Carys E. BENNETT, Sarah J. DAVIES, Timothy I. KEARSEY, Emma J. REEVES & Catherine LANGFORD (2025)
Palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of the Early Mississippian tetrapod locality Willie's Hole
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 84-98
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000112
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John E. A. MARSHALL, Emma J. REEVES, Carys E. BENNETT, Sarah J. DAVIES, Tim I. KEARSEY & David MILLWARD (2025)
Placing the Scottish Romer's Gap tetrapods within a Tournaisian time frame
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 115(3-4): 99-112
In: Special Issue 3-4: Evolution, Environments and Ecology of Palaeozoic Biota: Essays in Honour of Dr Timothy R. Smithson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000100
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Roger L. Matthews, Diana A. Fusco, Grant A. Gully, Lee J. Arnold, Martina Demuro, Nigel A. Spooner, Roderick T. Wells & Gavin J. Prideaux (2025)
Kiana Cliff: a new fossil vertebrate site of probable last interglacial age from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 149(1): 108-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2025.2452015
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03721426.2025.2452015
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03721426.2025.2452015
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Seth D. Burgess and Benjamin A. Black (2025)
The Anatomy and Lethality of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 53: 567-594
doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-040722-105544
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-040722-105544
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Gina E. Moseley, Gabriella Koltai, Jonathan L. Baker, Jian Wang, Heather Stoll, Anika Donner, Lena Friedrich, Christoph Spötl, M. Paul Smith, Denis Scholz, Hai Cheng, Adam Hartland, Clivia Hejny & R. Lawrence Edwards (2025)
Late Miocene Arctic warmth and terrestrial climate recorded by North Greenland speleothems
Nature Geoscience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01822-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01822-0
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Anja B. Frank, Baran Karapunar, Stephen E. Grasby, Erdal Koşun, Niko Lahajnar, Mónica Alejandra Gómez Correa, Stella Z. Buchwald, Marc Metzke & William J. Foster (2025)
Assessing the role of anoxia as a potential extinction driver in the shallow marine Neotethys during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Chemical Geology 696: 123108
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123108
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000925412500498X
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Lewis A. Jones, Christopher D. Dean, Bethany J. Allen, Harriet B. Drage, Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, William Gearty, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Erin M. Dillon, Bruna M. Farina, Pedro L. Godoy (2025)
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Palaeontology 68(5): e70028
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70028
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70028
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70028