Paratethyphoca + sauropod diet + Fernatator + Cyclotosaurus evolution + Habroichthys + Troglocladodus + 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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Emily Coco & Radu Iovita (2025)
Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia.
PLoS One 20(6): e0325693
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325693
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0325693
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Goizane Alonso Caño, Juan Carlos Díez Fernández-Lomana & Antonio Sánchez-Marco (2025)
Insights into Neanderthal bird hunting practices during MIS5-3: Taphonomical analysis of avian remains from Valdegoba cave (Burgos, Spain)
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 66: 105266
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105266
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25002998
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Nadir Fawad, Daidu Fan, Taixun Liu, Muhammad Kamran & Qazi Adnan Ahmed (2025)
Unravelling the Pleistocene climatic evolution in the Siwaliks: Implications for hominin settlement in the upper Soan Valley, Pakistan
Journal of Palaeogeography 100262
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.100262
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625000689
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Olivier Cartapanis, Edouard Bard, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Manuel Chevalier, Damien Flas & Thibaut Devièse (2025)
Regional climatic dynamics and cultural divergence in glacial western Europe
Quaternary Science Reviews 363: 109429
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109429
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125002495
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Sara Díaz-Pérez, Irene Megía García, Rodrigo Paulos-Bravo, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas, Carlos A. Palancar, Francesc Gascó-Lluna, Isidoro Campaña Lozano, Davinia Moreno, Fernando Jiménez Barredo, Pedro R. Moya-Maleno & Daniel García-Martínez (2025)
Middle Pleistocene hominin presence in the Southern Iberian Plateau: Lithic assemblages from the Cueva de los Toriles site (Carrizosa, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 65: 105239
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105239
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2500272X
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Philippa Hammond, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho (2025)
The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1473794
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1473794
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1473794/full
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Pedro Castaños Ugarte (2025)
New evidences of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the north of the Iberian Peninsula
MUNIBE Antropologia-Arkeologia 76 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.21630/maa.2025.76.04
https://www.aranzadi.eus/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/maa20257604.pdf
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Adrian Przemysław Marciszak & Dr Wiktoria Gornig (2025)
Taxonomic position of the brown bear Ursus arctos remains from Niedźwiedzia Cave (Silesia, SW Poland) and the problem of extreme species morphological variability
Geological Quarterly 69(1): 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1780
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/34326
Free pdf:
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/34326/25848
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Paratethyphoca libera gen. et sp. nov.
Pavlo Otriazhyi, Theodor Obadă, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Davit Vasilyan & Pavel Gol’din (2025)
A new seal from the Late Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys highlights the past regional diversity of true seals (Phocidae)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 28
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00372-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00372-7
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Vicente D. Crespo, María Ríos, Rafael Marquina-Blasco & Plini Montoya (2025)
The Early Miocene muroids (Muroidea, Rodentia) of the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin (Spain): A thriving haven during a time of migration
Fossil Record 28(1): 187-218
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.138478
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/138478/
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Bruce J. MacFadden, David J. Bohaska, Lee Cone, Stephanie R. Killingsworth, Samantha P. Zbinden, Jeanette Pirlo, Sean M. Moran, Jon Baskin & Victor J. Perez (2025)
Early Miocene land mammals and chronology of the Belgrade Formation, eastern North Carolina
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.68
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Shaoyuan Wu, Ziqi Tao, Liang Liu, Charles R Marshall, Scott V Edwards, Zhonghe Zhou & Frank E Rheindt (2025)
New Fossils Imply a Deeper Origin of Modern Birds in the Mesozoic
National Science Review, nwaf238
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238/8158921
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N.V. Zelenkov (2025)
A loon (Aves, Gaviiformes) from the Upper Miocene of Mongolia
Paleontological Journal 59: 215–220
doi: https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103012560012X
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S003103012560012X
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Sina F. J. Dupuis, Jordan Bestwick, Dennis M. Hansen, Esben Horn, Stacey Wiik, Rasmus Frederiksen, Robert Zboray, Kiarash Tajbakhsh, Ursina Bachmann, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025)
Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 27
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
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Stephen F. Poropat, Anne-Marie P. Tosolini, Samantha L. Beeston, Mackenzie J.
Enchelmaier, Adele H. Pentland, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Karen Chin,
Vera A. Korasidis, Phil R. Bell, Nathan J. Enriquez, Alex I. Holman, Luke M.
Brosnan, Amy L. Elson, Madison Tripp, Alan G. Scarlett, Belinda Godel, Robert
H.C. Madden, William D.A. Rickard, Joseph J. Bevitt, Travis R. Tischler, Tayla
L.M. Croxford, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott & Kliti Grice (2025)
Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs
Current Biology 35(11): 2597--2613
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.053Highlights
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00550-0
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2900550-0
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Vincenzo Gesualdi, Matteo Belvedere, Marko Yurac, Dorothee Hippler, Nejla Hurem, Christian Salazar, Javiera Mendez & Christian A. Meyer (2025)
Diverse dinosaur tracks from the Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous Chacarilla Formation of Quebrada de Arcas, northeast Chile: Evidence of high ichnodiversity in an arid palaeoenviroment
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113088
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113088
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003736
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David Hone and Bruce Lauer (2025)
Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet – new information from Solnhofen region pterodactyloid specimens
Lethaia 58(3): 1-12
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.3.1
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.58.3.1
Free pdf:
https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.58.3.1
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Claudio A. Mamani, M. Jimena Trotteyn, Fernando E. Novas, Julia B. Desojo and Martín D. Ezcurra (2025)
Osteology of the skull of Tropidosuchus romeri (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsidae)
Royal Society Open Science 12(6): 250248
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250248
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250248
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.250248
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Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, Armin Elsler, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt & Michael J. Benton (2025)
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02739-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02739-y
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E. A. Zvonok, M. S. Arkhangelsky, Yu. A. Glazunov, V. A. Glazunov, A. S. Glushkov & I. G. Danilov (2025)
Sea Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous of the Penza Oblast (Russia)
Paleontological Journal 59: 191–201
doi: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030125600106
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030125600106
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Fernatator prenticei gen. and sp. nov.
Judy A. Massare, Murray Edmunds, Robert J. Morris, Terence P. Poulton, Shyong En Pan, and Jordan C. Mallon (2025)
The most complete Early Jurassic ichthyosaur from North America
Paludicola 15(2): 86–99
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Krystal A. A. Tolley & Graham J. Alexander (2025)
Into Africa: The biogeography of the genus Python in Africa
Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e146955
doi: https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.18.146955
https://biogeography.pensoft.net/article/146955/
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Rainer R. Schoch, Florian Witzmann, Ingmar Werneburg, Ralf Werneburg, Eudald Mujal & Raphael Moreno (2025)
The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00729-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00729-w
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Masahiro Noda, Takushi Kishida, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Ibuki Fukuyama & Kanto Nishikawa (2025)
Ancient DNA integrates fossil and modern giant salamander taxonomy
Scientific Reports 15: 18642
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03496-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03496-5
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Habroichthys zuitaensis nov. sp.
H. dincae nov. sp.
H. flaviae nov. sp.
H. nietorum nov. sp.
H. bosi nov. sp.
H. veronikae nov. sp.
H. celarci nov. sp.
Davide Conedera, Tomaž Hitij, Stefano Monari, Roberto Gatto, Massimiliano Andreetti & Andrea Tintori (2025)
The miniature fish Habroichthys (Actinopterygii; Peltopleuriformes): seven new species from the Middle Triassic of Italy and Slovenia reveal insights on its palaeobiology, palaeobiogeography, and palaeoecology
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2025.06.001
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001669952500049X
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Troglocladodus trimblei gen. et sp. nov.
Glikmanius careforum sp. nov.
John-Paul M. Hodnett, Rickard Toomey, H. Chase Egli, Gabe Ward, John R. Wood, Rickard Olson, Kelli Tolleson, Justin S. Tweet & Vincent L. Santucci (2025)
New ctenacanth sharks (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii; Ctenacanthiformes) from the Middle to Late Mississippian of Kentucky and Alabama
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(3): e2292599
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2292599
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2292599
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David M. Alba (2025)
Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32: 24
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09760-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09760-9
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Adam Hartstone-Rose, Tahlia I. Pollock & Lars Werdelin (2025)
Commentary: What's so interesting about sabertooths?
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70007
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70007
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70007
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Jean-Louis Pinault (2025)
The Milankovitch Theory Revisited to Explain the Mid-Pleistocene and Early Quaternary Transitions
Atmosphere 16(6): 702
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16060702
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/16/6/702
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M.T. Mohr, N.A. Famoso, J.X. Samuels, A.C. Laib & M.D. Schmitz (2025)
U-Pb zircon geochronology and chronostratigraphy of the Eocene–Miocene John Day Formation of central and eastern Oregon
Geosphere (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02852.1
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Celina A. Suarez, Glenn R. Sharman, Jordan Oefinger, Asher Boudreaux, Dennis Mmasa, James L. Crowley, Michael T. Mohr, Adam D. Marsh, Andrew R.C. Milner & Lisa E. Park Boush (2025)
A revised chronostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Moenave Formation, western USA: Implications for timing of continental climate change
GSA Bulletin (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B37784.1
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Camille Rossignol, Antoine Logghe, Vincent Luccisano, Xiao Shi, Nathan Cogné, Marc Poujol, Alan Pradel, Sylvie Bourquin, Gian Luigi Pillola, Héctor Botella, Fabrizio Cocco, Alfredo Loi, Daniele Fois, Paolo Stara & Luigi Sanciu (2025)
New age constraints for the Perdasdefogu Basin, Italy: implications for vertebrate paleobiogeography during the early Permian
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 675: 113085
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113085
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003700
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Sarah Jamison-Todd, Philip D. Mannion and Paul Upchurch (2025)
The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales
Royal Society Open Science 12(6): 250446
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250446
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250446
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Scott L. Cocker, Heather C. Proctor, Terry D. Galloway, James Miskelly, Britta J.L. Jensen & Duane G. Froese (2025)
Pleistocene grasshoppers, fleas, thrips, and mites: rare and new records from Arctic ground squirrel middens in east Beringia in Yukon Territory, Canada
The Canadian Entomologist 157: e21
doi: https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2025.14
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