Morrison Formation + Amblotherium apiarium + Homo habilis + theropod feeding evolution + Dakosaurus + Lonchidionoides + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Foster et al. (2026)
New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102
Most of the included papers are being posted in Research Gate with free pdfs.
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Some currently available papers:
John R. Foster, Kelli C. Trujillo, Rebecca K. Hunt-Foster, Spencer G. Lucas, Kenneth Carpenter, and Brent H. Breithaupt (2026)
An introduction to new developments in the geology and paleontology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 1-14
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Spencer G. Lucas (2026)
Confusion, contradiction, consensus and controversy-Middle-Upper Jurassic stratigraphy on the Southern Colorado Plateau
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 73-93
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Amblotherium apiarium sp. nov.
Brigid E. Connelly, Guillermo W. Rougier, and Brian M. Davis (2026)
Associated upper and lower dentition of a new species of the dryolestid mammal Amblotherium from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Utah, USA)
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 331-345
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John R. Foster, D. Cary Woodruff, and Rafael Royo-Torres (2026)
The first evidence of Turiasauria (Sauropoda) in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 267-282
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John R. Foster, Kelli C. Trujillo, Randall B. Irmis, Mathew J. Wedel, Kevin R. Chamberlain, David D. Gillette, and Sharon K. McMullen (2026)
History, age, and stratigraphy of the type locality of Dystrophaeus viaemalae (Sauropoda) in the lower Morrison Formation of southeastern Utah
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 201-213
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Kenneth Carpenter, Takehito Ikejiri, and Yvonne Wilson (2026)
Postcranial anatomy of immature Camarasaurus specimens from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, compared to the holotype of Camarasaurus lentus (Marsh, 1889)
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 247-265
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Kenneth Carpenter (2026)
The smallest known Stegosaurus
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 283-285
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400035283_2026_Carpenter_Smallest_Stegosaurus
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Peter M. Galton and Kenneth Carpenter (2026)
Osteology atlas of the type materials in the Yale Peabody Museum of the ornithopod dinosaurian Camptosaurus dispar (Marsh, 1877) from the Upper Jurassic of Wyoming
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 293-318
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Rebecca K. Hunt-Foster, D. Cary Woodruff, Steven D. Sroka, and John R. Foster (2026)
The largest reported stegosaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic)
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 287-292
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April Hullinger, Colin Boisvert, Gunnar T. Bivens, Brian Curtice, Ray Wilhite, and John R. Foster (2026)
Redescription of Apatosaurine Remains from Arches National Park, Utah, USA (Upper Jurassic, Morrison Formation)
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 215-231
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Taylor Oswald and Brian Curtice (2026)
A Morrison "saber-tooth"? -comparison of Ceratosaurus dentition to other theropods and Machairodontinae and its implications for Ceratosaurus predatory ecology
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 185-200
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Yara Haridy, Joseph A. Frederickson, Joseph Peterson, Jordan Miller, Brian Davis, Brian Curtice, Rick Hunter, and Richard Cifelli (2026)
New material of the Late Jurassic sphenodontid Eilenodon robustus reveals transitionary adaptations to herbivory
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 171-184
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Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas and John R. Foster (2026)
The ichnological record of vertebrate consumption from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western North America with description of a new dentalite and revision of the ichnogenus Machichnus
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 359-373
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Daniel J. Chure (2026)
The fauna and flora of the Morrison Formation: 2026
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 453-470
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John R. Foster, Carole T. Gee, Nathan A. Jud, Steven D. Sroka, Brian Engh, Sue Sternberg, and Felicitas V. Hoff (2026)
Seeing the forest and the trees: a preliminary look at the implications of giant trees in the Morrison Formation for Late Jurassic climate in Western North America
In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 125-144
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Anton Killin (2026)
Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement
Biological Theory (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-025-00527-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-025-00527-2
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Juan Ochando, Donatella Magri, Biagio Giaccio, Giovanni Zanchetta, Antonino Vazzana, Omry Barzilai, Francesco Berna, Gruppo Speleologico Neretino, Giulia Marciani, Andrea Zerboni, Sara Silvestrini, Enza E. Spinapolice, Adriana Moroni, Gabriele Terlato, Matteo Romandini & Stefano Benazzi (2026)
From Neanderthals to Homo sapiens: New palaeoecological and tephrocronological data from the MIS3 layers of Grotta-Riparo di Uluzzo C (Apulia, southern Italy)
Quaternary Science Reviews 376: 109830
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109830
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126000399
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Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart & Carel van Schaik (2026)
Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70132
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70132
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70132
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Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Budianto Hakim, Basran Burhan, Ratno Sardi, Shinatria Adhityatama, Andrea Jalandoni, Hamrullah, Iwan Sumantri, M. Tang, Rustan Lebe, Iswadi, Imran Ilyas, Abdullah Abbas, Andi Jusdi, Dewangga Eka Mahardian, Fadhlan S. Intan, Sofwan Noerwidi, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Irfan Mahmud, Akin Duli, Laode M. Aksa, M. Nur, Nasrullah Aziz, Sri Wigati, Iksam, Faiz, M. Sabri, Fardi Ali Syahdar, Eriani, N. A. Hidayatullah, Suryatman, Laode Darma, Nurmin, Laode Zulman, S. H. Sindara, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Pindi Setiawan, Adam Brumm & Maxime Aubert (2026)
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09968-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y
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Pierre Gousset, Jérémie Bardin, Isabelle Rouget, Armand S. Mijares & Florent Détroit (2026)
Homo luzonensis and the role of homoplasy in the morphology of hominin insular species
Cladistics (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.70027
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.70027
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cla.70027
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Ian Tattersall (2026)
An identity for the inscrutable Homo habilis
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70145
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70145
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70145
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Yan-Qing Guo, Yiming Wang, Paul A Garber, Yingchun Li, Ru Zhang, Chi Zhang, Zhipang Huang, Dong-Dong Wu, Bao-Guo Li, Liangwei Cui, Bei Li & Xiao-Guang Qi (2026)
Incomplete lineage sorting shaped mixed traits during a colobine primate radiation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(5): e2524833123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524833123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2524833123
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2524833123
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Thomas S. Kelly, Robert A. Martin, and Patricia A. Holroyd
Lagomorpha and Rodentia of the early Hemphillian (late Miocene) Mulholland localities, Contra Costa County, California, USA.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(1):a5.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5746-hemphillian-lagomorpha-and-rodentia-from-california
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M. Cristina Cardonatto and Ricardo N. Melchor (2026)
Significant diachronism in vertebrate burrows: Pleistocene megamammal burrows in Neogene sediments of Central Argentina.
Lethaia 59(3): 1–18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.3.4
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.59.3.4
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Megan E. Jones, Katrina Jones & Robert L. Nudds (2026)
Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos
Scientific Reports 16: 1309
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29939-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-29939-7
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Lida Xing, Jens N. Lallensack, Hang Yin, Hendrik Klein, Anthony Romilio, Junmin Gao & Qi Qi (2026)
New Middle Jurassic mammaliaform tracks from northern Shaanxi Province, China.
Fossil Record 29(1): 37-56.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.169194
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/169194/
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Lotta Dreyer, Christian Cooper & Jingmai O'Connor (2026)
Osteohistology of two phorusrhacids reveals uninterrupted growth strategy
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70135
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70135
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70135
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Gang Wang, Tao Zhu, Xinye Zhang, Xufang Ren, Anqi Chen, Zhonghua Ning, Marcel van Tuinen & Lujiang Qu (2026)
Phylogeny of waterfowl (Anseriformes) constructed using genome sequences provides insights into topological incongruences
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msag018
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag018
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag018/8432329
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Luis A. Sánchez‐González, David A. Prieto‐Torres & Orlando J. Espinosa‐Chávez (2026)
Ecological Niche Differences Underlie the Assembly of Endemic Birds in Acrobiont Forests of Northern Mesoamerica
Journal of Biogeography 53(1): e70141
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70141
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.70141
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.70141
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Andre J. Rowe, Mauricio A. Cerroni & Emily J. Rayfield (2026)
Southern hemisphere ceratosaurs evolved feeding mechanics paralleling those of Northern hemisphere tyrannosaurids
Scientific Reports 16: 2804
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-32686-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-32686-4
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Christophe Hendrickx (2026)
Dental evolution in non-coelurosaur theropods
Italian Journal of Geosciences 145: f.2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/ IJG.2026.14
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Josephine Nielsen, Denver Fowler, Taia Wyenberg-Henzler, Aase Roland Jacobsen & Christof Pearce (2026)
Investigating Size-Asymmetric Feeding Among Tyrannosaurids Using Tooth Marks on a Metatarsal from the Judith River Formation, Montana, USA
Evolving Earth 100107
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2026.100107
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950117226000038
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Máté Szegszárdi, Attila Ősi & Márton Rabi (2026)
Cretaceous crocodyliform reconciles conflicting evidence on the Mesozoic paleogeography of Europe during the Gondwana-Laurasia split
Scientific Reports 16: 2842
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-28504-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28504-6
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Yanina Herrera, Frederik Spindler, and Mario Bronzati (2026)
A complete morphological description of Dakosaurus maximus (Crocodyliformes: Thalattosuchia) with further insights into their palaeoecology.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(1): a4
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1577
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5775-dakosaurus-maximus-morphology-and-palaeoecology
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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1577.pdf
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Adán Pérez-García, Andrea Guerrero, Santiago Martín de Jesús and Francisco Ortega (2026)
Evaluation of the Validity of the Spanish Eocene Pleurodiran Turtle ‘Duerochelys arribasi’: The Youngest Freshwater Member of Erymnochelyinae (Podocnemididae) in Europe
Diversity 18(1): 51
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18010051
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/1/51
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Lonchidionoides trifurcatum gen. et sp. nov.
Romain Vullo, Léo Galvão Carnier Fragoso, Jonathas S. Bittencourt, Adán Pérez-García, Imad Bouchemla & Madani Benyoucef (2026)
A new genus of lonchidiid hybodontiform sharks from the Cretaceous of North Africa and South America
Geological Magazine 163: e5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100484
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Amanda Gardiner, Gregor H Mathes, Rebecca Cooper, Kristína Kocáková, Jaime A Villafaña, Daniele Silvestro & Catalina Pimiento (2026)
Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years.
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.017
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01638-0
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2901638-0
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José Luis Herraiz, Humberto G. Ferrón, Héctor Botella, Matías Reolid & Carlos Martínez-Pérez (2026)
The Iberian fossil record of †Otodus megalodon rejects Mediterranean dwarfism and supports nursery use
Biology Letters 22 (1): 20250640
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0640
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Kenshu Shimada, Patrick B. Gonzales, Michael J. Everhart, Gregory A. Liggett, Denny J. Martin & Bruce A. Schumacher (2025)
A New Marine Vertebrate Assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, Southeastern Colorado, USA, with Comments on the Vertebrate Assemblages at or Near the Contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska
Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 128(3-4): 180-200
doi: https://doi.org/10.1660/062.128.0302
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Juliana Herrera-Pérez ,Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Axel Arango, Daniel Valencia-Rodríguez, Ana Berenice García-Andrade, Pablo Tedesco & Fabricio Villalobos (2026)
The latitudinal speciation gradient in freshwater fishes: Higher speciation across assemblages at higher latitudes in the northern hemisphere
PLoS One 21(1): e0338966
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338966
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338966
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Erin M. Dillon, Rodnyel Arosemena, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Brígida De Gracia, Seth Finnegan, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Javiera Mora, Sven Pallacks & Aaron O'Dea (2026)
Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 381 (1942): 20240419 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0419
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Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha & Nicolai Konow (2026)
Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates
Biological Reviews (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70129
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70129
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/brv.70129
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Michael Everett, Sarah Maryon, Abigail Hunt, Hannah Strehlau, Sally Reynolds & Matthew Bennett (2026)
The pressure record underfoot: Using ground penetrating radar to obtain pressure patterns of buried footprints
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 70: 105592
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105592
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26000271
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Mei Nelissen, Debra A Willard, Han van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert, Gabriel J Bowen, Teuntje Hollaar, Appy Sluijs, Joost Frieling & Henk Brinkhuis (2026)
Widespread terrestrial ecosystem disruption at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(4): e2509231122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509231122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2509231122
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2509231122
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Maciej Ruciński, Lope Ezquerro Ruiz, Hugo Campos, Octávio Mateus, Paulo Fernandes, Margarida Vilas-Boas, Haytham El Atfy, and Ingmar Werneburg (2026)
Palaeoenvironments, stratigraphy and taphonomy of an Upper Triassic vertebrate-bearing unit, Silves Group, central Algarve, southern Portugal.
Lethaia, 59(3): 1–31.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.3.3
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.59.3.3
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Claudio Berto, Mateusz Baca, Helen Fewlass, Greta Brancaleoni, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Angel Blanco-Lapaz, Barbara Bujalska, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Aleksandra Kropczyk, Adrian Marciszak, Magdalena Moskal del Hoyo, Andrea Pereswiet Soltan, Marcin Szymanek, Krzysztof Wertz, Aleksandra Żeromska & Małgorzata Kot (2026)
Chronological, paleoclimatic, and paleoenvironmental data from Łabajowa Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Poland): a comprehensive approach for investigating a complex Late Pleistocene sequence
Quaternary Science Reviews 376: 109778
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109778
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005980
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Corentin C. Loron, Laura M. Cooper, Sean McMahon, Seán F. Jordan, Andrei V. Gromov, Matthew Humpage, Niall Rodgers, Laetitia Pichevin, Hendrik Vondracek, Ruaridh Alexander, Edwin Rodriguez Dzul, Alexander T. Brasier, Michael Krings, and Alexander J. Hetherington (2026)
Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi
Science Advances 12(4): eaec6277
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277