Harbin cranium mtDNA+ Ornithocheiriformes + pterosaur origin environment + Bolg + Allaeochelys meylani + Placerias Quarry date + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
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Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Emily Y. Hallett, Michela Leonardi, Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni, Manuel Will, Robert Beyer, Mario Krapp, Andrew W. Kandel, Andrea Manica & Eleanor M. L. Scerri (2025)
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09154-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09154-0
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Matt SPONHEIMER, Oliver C. C. PAINE, David J. DAEGLING, Peter S. UNGAR & Kaye REED (2025)
Dinner with Lucy: what does Paranthropus boisei bring to the table? in HUBLIN J.-J., MOUNIER A. & TEYSSANDIER N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 23(15): 303-316
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a15
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/15
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Carlos A. Palancar, Daniel García-Martínez & Markus Bastir (2025)
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited
Journal of Human Evolution 205: 103704
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103704
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000570
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Jacopo Gennai, Tom Higham, Marco Romboni, Angelica Fiorillo, Maddalena Giannì, Laura van der Sluis, Damiano Marchi & Elisabetta Starnini (2025)
Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo: New chronological, lithic, and faunal analyses of two late Mousterian sites in Central Italy
PLOS ONE 20(6): e0315876
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315876
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0315876
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Jacopo Crezzini, Alessandra Modi, Costanza Cannariato, David Caramelli, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Paolo Boscato, Adriana Moroni & Francesco Boschin (2025)
Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy
Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4: 1558698
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2025.1558698
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Qiaomei Fu, Peng Cao, Qingyan Dai, E. Andrew Bennett, Xiaotian Feng, Melinda A. Yang, Wanjing Ping, Svante Pääbo & Qiang Ji (2025)
Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium
Cell (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.040
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00627-0
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2825%2900627-0
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Amy M. Way, Philip J. Piper, Rebecca Chalker, Dominic Wilkins, Erin Wilkins, Leanne Watson Redpath, Paul Glass, Marilyn Rose Carroll, Emily Nutman, Nina Kononenko, Michael Spate, Timothy T. Barrows, Duncan Wright & Wayne Brennan (2025)
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Nature Human Behaviour (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02180-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02180-y
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Vance T. Holliday, Jason D. Windingstad, Jordon Bright, Bruce G. Phillips, Joel B. Butler, Ryan Breslawski, and James E. Bowman (2025)
Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico
Science Advances 11(25): eadv4951
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv4951
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv4951
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adv4951
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Matthew R. Bennett, Thomas M. Urban, David F. Bustos, Sally C. Reynolds, Edward A. Jolie, Hannah C. Strehlau, Daniel Odess, Kathleen B. Springer & Jeffrey S. Pigati (2025)
The ichnology of White Sands (New Mexico): Linear traces and human footprints, evidence of transport technology?
Quaternary Science Advances 17: 100274
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033425000103
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Dryomys anatolicus sp. nov.
Ortaç Çetintaş, Mustafa Sözen, Sercan Irmak, Kürşat Kenan Kalkan, Faruk Çolak & Ferhat Matur (2025)
Phylogeography of an Anatolian endemic and Alpine specialist woolly dormouse Dryomys laniger with a description of a new species
Communications, Faculty of Science, University of Ankara Series C Biology, Geological Engineering and Geophysical Engineering 34(1): 1-35
doi: https://doi.org/10.53447/communc.1532924
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/communc/issue/92537/1532924
Free pdf:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/4143669
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Olivier Maridet, Vlad A. Codrea, Cristina Fărcaș, Alexandru A. Solomon, Márton Venczel, and Jérémy Tissier (2025)
The record of cricetid rodents across the Eocene–Oligocene transition in Transylvania, Romania: implications for the “Grande Coupure” at European scale
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(2): 291-327
doi:10.4202/app.01234.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012342024.html
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LI Lan-Xin & LI Qian (2025)
Comprehensive research on Late Eocene Hulgana cf. H. ertnia (Rodentia: Ischyromyidae)
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250620
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250620
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Rebecca J. Strauch, Nicholas D. Pyenson & Carlos Mauricio Peredo (2025)
How is the third jaw joint in whales different? Diverse modes of articulation between the jaws of whales
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70008
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70008
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70008
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Łukasz Olewnik, Ingrid C. Landfald, Aleksandra Kajkowska-Szabert, George Triantafyllou & Maria Piagkou (2025)
The Soleus Muscle in Comparative Anatomy: Morphological Variation and Functional Adaptation Across Mammals, with Clinical Insights
Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger 261: 152691
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2025.152691
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0940960225003188
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Aurélie Manin, Regis Debruyne, Audrey Lin, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Evangelos Antonios Dimopoulos, Lucio González Venanzi, Sophy Charlton, Lachie Scarsbrook, Andrew Hogan, Anna Linderholm, Adam R. Boyko, Pauline Joncour, Mónica Berón, Paola González, Juan Carlos Castro, Silvia Cornero, Gabriel Cantarutti, Patricio López Mendoza, Ismael Martínez, Velia Mendoza España, Daniel Pavlovic, Luciano Prates, Francisco Prevosti, José Rogan, Adrián Oyaneder, Ximena Power, Susan deFrance, Michael Wylde, Belkys Gutierrez, Sandrine Grouard, Carolyn Freiwald, Jaime J. Awe, Claire E. Ebert, Julie A. Hoggarth, Juan Carlos Equihua, Grégory Pereira, Heidi Parker, Christine Lefèvre, Nicolas Goepfert, Elaine Ostrander, Greger Larson, Laurent Frantz, Christophe Hitte and Morgane Ollivier (2025)
Ancient dog mitogenomes support the dual dispersal of dogs and agriculture into South America
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2443
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2443
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.2443
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Richard A. Fariña, Elspeth Hayes, Luis A. Lemoine, Richard Fullagar, P. Sebastián Tambusso & Luciano Varela (2025)
An indentation in a 33,000-year-old right calcaneus of the ground sloth Lestodon (Xenarthra, Folivora) from Uruguay and its possible human agency
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 31
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00379-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00379-0
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WANG Qiang, DONG Zhe, MAO Lei, ZHU Xu-Feng, CHEN Yan-Bin, HUANG Jian-Dong & DING Hai-Dong (2025)
The first discovery of non-avian dinosaur egg and bone fossils in the Hefei Basin
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250618
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250618
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Attila Ősi, Réka Kolláti & András Lajos Nagy (2025)
Morphological and dental wear pattern analysis of Upper Cretaceous theropod teeth from Central Europe
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00657-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00657-2
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R. V. Pêgas (2025)
On the systematics and phylogenetic nomenclature of the Ornithocheiriformes (Pterosauria, Pteranodontoidea).
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a25
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/20
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5546-systematics-of-ornithocheiriform-pterosaurs
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/20.pdf
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Davide Foffa, Emma M. Dunne, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Brenen M. Wynd, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt, Paul J. Valdes, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Ben T. Kligman, Adam D. Marsh, William G. Parker, Richard J. Butler, Nicholas C. Fraser, Stephen L. Brusatte & Paul M. Barrett (2025)
Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02767-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02767-8
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Bolg amondol gen. et sp. nov.
C. Henrik Woolley, Joseph J. W. Sertich, Keegan M. Melstrom, Randall B. Irmis and Nathan D. Smith (2025)
New monstersaur specimens from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah reveal unexpected richness of large-bodied lizards in Late Cretaceous North America
Royal Society Open Science 12(6): 250435
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250435
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250435
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.250435
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Allaeochelys meylani sp. nov.
Yann Rollot, Mohamed K. AbdelGawad, Mohamed A. Hamdan, Ahmed N. El-Barkooky, Safiya M. Hassan & Walter G. Joyce (2025)
Trionychian turtles from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Moghra Formation, Egypt, including a new species of Carettochelyidae
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 30
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00358-5
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00358-5
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Yi-nuo Wang, Da-yong Jiang1, Ryosuke Motani, Ming-tao Yao, Cheng Ji, Zuo-yu Sun & Min Zhou (2025)
Skeletal ossification of Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur Keichousaurus hui (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) revealed by zinc distribution.
PeerJ 13:e19475
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19475
https://peerj.com/articles/19475/
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Assemat Alexandre, Adnet Sylvain& E. Martin Jeremy (2025)
Reconstructing the trophic structure of Maastrichtian elasmobranch communities in Morocco using calcium isotopes
Gondwana Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X25001819
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Krishna Kumar, Bindhyachal Pandey, Shailendra Kumar Kulshreshtha, Pragya Pandey, Triparna Ghosh, Raj Kumar & Debasish Bhattacharya (2025)
Pyconodont fishes from the Eocene of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, Western India
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/05529360251338355
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/05529360251338355
Free pdf:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/05529360251338355
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Joshua Bland, Hugo Dutel, John A. Long, Matteo Fabbri, Joseph Bevitt, Kate Trinajstic, Olga Panagiotopoulou & Alice M. Clement (2025)
Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes
iScience (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112970
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)01231-3
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2825%2901231-3
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Stephen J. Godfrey, Victor J. Perez, Marcus Jones, Phillip F. Chapman, Nathan Spencer, and Jason E. Osborne (2025)
New light on the trophic ecology of Carcharodon hastalis from teeth embedded in Miocene cetacean vertebrae from Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, USA
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(2): 329-337
doi:10.4202/app.01241.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012412025.html
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Li Jiachun, Sun Zuoyu, Gilles Cuny, Zhao Siyan, Yao Mingtao & Song Lijun (2025)
New ichthyofaunal microfossils from the Late Permian at Chaotian, Sichuan, Southwest China
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 29
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00377-2
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00377-2
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Spencer G. Lucas (2025)
Stratigraphic Position and Age of the Upper Triassic Placerias Quarry, East-Central Arizona, USA
Fossil Studies 3(2): 9
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils3020009
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/3/2/9
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Megan E. Sims, Matthew F. Jones, Nicholas J. Czaplewski & Deborah K. Anderson (2025)
Rediscovered lost holotypes of two Paleogene mammals, a Neogene bird, and other published specimens from an orphaned collection
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2506755
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2506755
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2506755
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2506755
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Andrea Villa, Elisa Luzi & Massimo Delfino (2025)
A small vertebrate (Urodela, Anura, Squamata, Rodentia) assemblage from Fada Nana Cave (Quaternary, northern Italy)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00662-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00662-5
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Lindsay J. McHenry, Alan L. Deino & Terry Harrison (2025)
Linking the tephrostratigraphy of the Pleistocene Naibadad Beds across the Laetoli area, Olduvai basin, and Ngorongoro volcano (Tanzania) using geochronology and tephra composition
Quaternary Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.17
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Peter Köhler (2025)
Closing the Plio-Pleistocene 13C cycle in the 405 kyr periodicity by isotopic signatures of geological sources
Climate of the Past 21(6): 1043-1060
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1043-2025
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1043/2025/
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