I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Costantino Buzi, Marco Boggioni, Andrea Borsato, Giovanni Boschian, Damiano Marchi, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Antonio Profico, Alessandro Riga, Marco Samadelli, Giorgio Manzi (2024)
Virtual paleoanthropology in karstic environments. The challenging case of the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura (southern Italy)
Quaternary Science Reviews 338: 108833
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108833
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124003342
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Andra Meneganzin & Anton Killin (2024)
Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-024-10003-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-024-10003-0
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Clara Mielgo, José Yravedra Saínz de los Terreros, David Álvarez-Alonso, María de Andrés-Herrero & Aitor Hevia-Carrillo (2024)
Unraveling the interplay between humans and carnivores in El Olivo Cave during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic period (Llanera, Asturias, Spain)
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.02.008
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699524000494
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Mariano Del Papa, Martin De Los Reyes, Daniel G. Poiré, Nicolás Rascovan, Guillermo Jofré & Miguel Delgado (2024)
Anthropic cut marks in extinct megafauna bones from the Pampean region (Argentina) at the last glacial maximum.
PLoS ONE 19(7): e0304956
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304956
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304956
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Sara Silvestrini, Cristina Real, Federico Lugli, Davide Delpiano, Katerina Harvati, Carmine Collina, Marco Peresani, Enza Elena Spinapolice, Matteo Romandini, Stefano Benazzi (2024)
Hunting game: New data on the subsistence strategies during the Uluzzian in Italy
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57: 104575
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104575
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24002037
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Radu Iovita, William Rendu, Susanne Lindauer, Zhaken Taimagambetov, Galina A. Kushch & Gennady F. Baryshnikov (2024)
A Newly Dated Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the Southern Altai Piedmont, East Kazakhstan
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 7(1): 1-11
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00187-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00187-x
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Hendri A.F. Kaharudin, Sue O'Connor, Shimona Kealy, Marlon N. Ririmasse (2024)
Islands on the edge: 42,000-year-old occupation of the Tanimbar islands and its implications for the Sunda-Sahul early human migration discourse
Quaternary Science Reviews 338: 108834
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108834
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124003354
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Eliwourus topernawiensis gen. et sp. nov.
Erik R. Seiffert, Steven Heritage, Dorien de Vries, Hesham M. Sallam, Natasha S. Vitek, Emmanuel Aoron & Patricia Princehouse (2024)
Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent from sub-Saharan Africa: a new genus and species from the early Oligocene Topernawi Formation of northern Kenya
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2370015
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2370015
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Ricardo Vasconcelos Ginzo, Marisol Montellano Ballesteros
Roedores y lagomorfos blancanos (Plioceno tardío) del Lago de Chapala, Jalisco, México
[Blancan (late Pliocene) rodents and lagomorphs from Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico]
Paleontología Mexicana 13(2): 175–189 (in Spanish)
http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/article/view/711
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Robert D. Lystad Gray, Alejandro H. Marín-Leyva, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales & M. Luisa García-Zepeda (2024)
Descripción taxonómica y estudio de isótopos estables (δ13C y δ18O) de Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792) (Proboscidea, Mammutidae) del Blancano (Plio– Pleistoceno) de Santa Fe del Río, (Michoacán, México)
[Taxonomic description and stable isotopes (δ13C and δ18O) study for Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792) (Proboscidea, Mammutidae) from the Blancan (Plio–Pleistocene) of Santa Fe del Río, (Michoacán, Mexico)]
Paleontología Mexicana 13(2): 157-165 (in Spanish)
http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/article/view/717
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Clàudia Tura-Poch, Saverio Bartolini-Lucenti, Qi-Gao Jiangzuo, Maria Prat-Vericat, Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Lorenzo Rook & Joan Madurell-Malapeira (2024)
The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats
Palaeoworld (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2024.05.003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X24000787
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Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Alberto Valenciano, Panagiotis Kampouridis, Ştefan Vasile, Laurenţiu Ursachi & Bogdan Răţoi (2024)
The carnivoran record from the Neogene of Eastern Romania
RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA 130(2): 331-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/22194
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22194
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Adrian MARCISZAK, Grzegorz LIPECKI & Mieczysław WOLSAN (2024)
Baranogale helbingi Kormos, 1934 (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the late Pliocene site Węże 1 (Poland)
Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 94: xxxxx
doi: https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2024.09
http://www.asgp.pl/sites/default/files/in_press_94_Marciszak_et_al.pdf
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Adrian Przemysław Marciszak, Wiktoria Marianna Gornig, Lena Matyaszczyk, Krzysztof Demidziuk & Marek Kasprzak (2024)
Remains of Canidae and Felidae from Południowa Cave (Sudetes Mts, SW Poland)
Geological Quarterly 68: 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1751
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/34064
Free pdf:
https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/34064/25748
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Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Alberto Valenciano, Juan Abella, Michael Morlo, George E. Konidaris, Panagiotis Kampouridis, Thomas Lechner & Madelaine Böhme (2024)
The carnivoran guilds from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.02.003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699524000445
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Joyce Sanks & Rachel Racicot (2024)
Predicting ecology and hearing sensitivities in Parapontoporia—An extinct long-snouted dolphin
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25538
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25538
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25538
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Peggy L. Brady, Alejandro Castrellon Arteaga, Sergi López-Torres & Mark S. Springer (2024)
The effects of ordered multistate morphological characters on phylogenetic analyses of eutherian mammals
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31: 28
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09727-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-024-09727-2
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Holger Preuschoft, Thomas Martin & Ingmar Werneburg (2024)
Remarks on the functional morphology of the earliest mammals
Mammalian Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00437-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-024-00437-z
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Jin Meng & Fangyuan Mao (2024)
On the earliest evolution of the mammaliaform teeth, jaw joint and middle ear
Clinical and Translational Medicine 14(7): e1768
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1768
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctm2.1768
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctm2.1768
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Nasiornis messelornithoides gen. et sp. nov.
Walbeckornis waltonensis sp. nov.
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)
Messelornithids and messelornithid-like birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.12.011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699524000421
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Ian J. Ausprey (2024)
Eye morphology contributes to the ecology and evolution of the aquatic avifauna
Journal of Animal Ecology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14141
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.14141
Free pdf:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2656.14141
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Ashleigh Haruda, Camilla Mazzucato & Lisa Yeomans (2024)
On the wing: Morphological variation in the osteology of Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and European Anatidae (excluding Anserinae)
Journal of Morphology 285(8): e21750
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21750
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21750
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.21750
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Harenadraco prima gen. et sp. nov.
Sungjin Lee, Yuong-Nam Lee, Jin-Young Park, Su-Hwan Kim, Zorigt Badamkhatan, Damdinsuren Idersaikhan & Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar (2024)
The first troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2364746
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2364746
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2364746
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2024.2364746
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KE Yi-Hui, PEI Rui & XU Xing (2024)
High-resolution CT-scan data reveals the tooth replacement pattern of the Late Jurassic tyrannosauroid Guanlong wucaii (Dinosauria, Theropoda).
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.240715.
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.240715
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Michael Jones, Jens N. Lallensack, Ian Jarman, Peter Falkingham & Ivo Siekmann (2024)
Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning
bioRxiv 2024.07.15.603597 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.15.603597
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.603597v1
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Michael B. Habib & David WE. Hone (2024)
Intraspecific variation in the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus muensteri—implications for flight and socio-sexual signaling.
PeerJ 12: e17524
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17524
https://peerj.com/articles/17524/
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Oliver A. López-Conde, María L. Chavarría-Arellano, Hector Porras-Múzquiz & Jesús Alvarado-Ortega (2024)
Remains of a sea turtle from the Austin Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian), Coahuila, Mexico
Paleontología Mexicana 13(2): 167–174
http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/article/view/718
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Sebastián Hernández-Nieto, Janine M. Ziermann-Canabarro & Paul Lukas (2024)
Developmental sequence of the chondrocranium in the obligate carnivorous larvae of Lepidobatrachus laevis (Amphibia: Ceratophryidae)
The Anatomical Record (Early View)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25535
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25535
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25535
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Werner Schwarzhans, Gary Stringer & Gary T. Takeuchi (2024)
The middle Eocene bony fish fauna of California, USA, reconstructed by means of otoliths
RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA 130(2): 373-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/22783
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22783
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Xeneichthys yanesi gen. et sp. nov.
Xeneichthyidae fam. nov.
Gloria Arratia and Katia A. González-Rodríguez (2024)
A New Intriguing Teleost from the Albian Muhi Quarry, Central Mexico, and Early Euteleostean Diversification
Diversity 16(7): 414
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d16070414
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/7/414
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Alfio Moscarella, Marco Romano, Lorenzo Consorti, Angelo Cipriani, Gabriele Bindellini, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale, Adele Garzarella, Maria Letizia Pampaloni, Paolo Citton,Ferdinando Spano', Chiara d'Ambrogi, Cristina Muraro, Ernesto Paolo Prinzi, Giuditta Radeff, Gino Romagnoli & Simone Fabbi (2024)
Digital investigation of lamniform shark vertebrae from the Sibillini Mts. (Northern Apennines, Italy)
RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA 130 (2): 311-330
doi: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/22571
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22571
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https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/22571/21333
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John T. Clarke & Robert B. Davis (2024)
Salinity plays a limited role in determining rates of size evolution in fishes globally across multiple scales
Global Ecology and Biogeography (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13883
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13883
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.13883
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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
Insights into digit evolution from a fate map study of the forearm using Chameleon, a new transgenic chicken line
Development 151 (13): dev202340.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202340
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Corentin C. Loron (2024)
A mathematical description of fossilization
Royal Society Open Science 11(7): 231827
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231827
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231827
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.231827
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Landon A. Anderson (2024)
Nanoscopic imaging of ancient protein and vasculature offers insight into soft tissue and biomolecule fossilization
iScience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110538
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224017632
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Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau, Oleg Mandic & Thomas A. Neubauer (2024)
The Central Paratethys Sea—rise and demise of a Miocene European marine biodiversity hotspot
Scientific Reports 14: 16288
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67370-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67370-6
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67370-6.pdf
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Jianli Zeng, Tingshan Zhang, Mihai Emilian Popa, Yongdong Wang, Xi Zhang, Liqin Li, Yuanyuan Xu, Ning Lu & Xiaoqing Zhang (2024)
End-Triassic storm deposits in the lacustrine Sichuan Basin and their driving mechanisms
Science China Earth Sciences 67: 2383–2400
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-022-1360-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11430-022-1360-y
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Artai A. Santos, Stephen McLoughlin, Marco A. Rubalcava-Knoth, Ana L. Hernández-Damián, Uxue Villanueva-Amadoz & Sergio R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz (2024)
Plant-insect interactions in the mid-Cretaceous paleotropical El Chango Lagerstätte (Cintalapa Fm., Mexico)—patterns of herbivory during the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12: 1381539
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1381539
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2024.1381539/full
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Special Issue:
Paleoworkshop: Rescue of Mexican [Paleontological] Material
Paleontología Mexicana 13(2): Número especial 7: Rescate de Material Mexicano.
http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/issue/view/170/showToc
This special issue is the result of the Paleoworkshop: Rescue of Mexican Material, held at Ecocampus-BUAP in September 2023.
Free pdf of complete issue:
http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/issue/viewIssue/170/54
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Note that regular articles on fossil vertebrates from the same issue are included in different sections of the weekly list.
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Abstracts Book:
Across the end Permian "Great Extinction": from field studies to scientific results
Mémoire de Géologie (Lausanne) 50: 1-194
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Book:
JS Carrión, E Barrón, M Casas-Gallego & JM Postigo-Mijarra, coords. (2024)
Iberian Paleoflora and Paleovegetation. Vol I: Paleocene-Pliocene.
Cartagena: Universidad Politécnica. 179 p.
ISBN: 978 84 17853 87 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31428/10317/1681
Free pdf:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381603192_Iberian_Paleofloras_Paleocene-Eocene