Rothictis + Bonisictis + Chromeornis + Calamosuchus + Beukidercetis + Petrodercetis + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Sandrine PRAT (2025)
Singular or plural Oldowan tool-makers during the Lower Pleistocene in eastern Africa?
in HUBLIN J.-J., MOUNIER A. & TEYSSANDIER N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24 (27): 545-561.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a27
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/27
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Victor Nery, Walter Neves, Leticia Valota & Mark Hubbe (2025)
Testing the taxonomy of Dmanisi hominin fossils through dental crown area
PLoS One 20(12): e0336484.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336484
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0336484
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Luc Doyon, Juan Marín Hernando, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Maïlys Richard, Valentine Arnaud & Francesco d’Errico (2025)
A bone tool used by Neanderthal for flaying carcasses at the Abri du Maras (France)
Scientific Reports (unedited MS preprint version)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-30264-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-30264-2
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Liat Rotenstreich, Kfir Eliyahu, Nir Edery, Lior Moss, Saleem Eben Bari & Assaf Marom (2025)
Patterns of interspecific variation in labial microarchitecture among anthropoid primates and the evolution of the hominin lips
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70103
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70103
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70103
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Nadine G. Steer, Ameline Bardo, Thomas W. Davies, Antonio Rosas, Matthew M. Skinner & Tracy L. Kivell (2025)
Functional Morphology of the Scaphoid in Extant African Apes, Humans and Fossil Hominins
American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume 188, Issue 4 e70157
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70157
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70157
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.70157
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Antonio Profico, Nathan Jeffery & Fotios Alexandros Karakostis (2025)
Can Asymmetrical Mechanical Loading Be Accurately Inferred from the Analysis of Skeletal Material?
American Journal of Biological Anthropology 188(4): e70176
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70176
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70176
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.70176
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Aleksandra Żeromska, Mateusz Baca, Anna Lemanik, Danijela Popović, Magdalena Krajcarz, Joanna Stojak, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Helen Fewlass, Tatyana Fadeeva, Ivan Horáček, Alexander K Agadzhanyan, Natalia V Serdyuk, Sara E Rhodes, Nicolas Conard, Emmanuel Desclaux, Aurélien Royer, Svetlana V Pavlova, Ivan Baláž, Leonid Rekovets, Claudio Berto, Gyozo Horvath, Adam Nadachowski & Paweł Mackiewicz (2025)
Reconstruction of phylogeographic relationships and evolution of the tundra vole, Alexandromys oeconomus (Rodentia, Cricetidae), based on ancient DNA
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(4): zlaf154
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf154
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/205/4/zlaf154/8368110
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Dingge Guo, Joan Madurell‑Malapeira, Kun Xie, Zhaoyu Li, Chao Qin, Lu Li, Qigao Jiangzuo & Shiqi Wang (2025)
New skull of Megantereon inexpectatus (Carnivora: Machairodontinae) and its implications on evolution of Megantereon in North China
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 73
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00417-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00417-x
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Jörg Albrecht, Hervé Bocherens, Keith A. Hobson, Dorothée G. Drucker, Agnieszka Sergiel, Jon E. Swenson, Andreas Zedrosser, Adrian Marciszak, Elisabeth Iregren, Leena Drenzel, René Kyselý, Grzegorz Lipecki, Daniel Makowiecki, Jan Wagner, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Susanne A. Fritz, Eloy Revilla & Nuria Selva (2025)
Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change
Nature Communications 16: 10896
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65959-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65959-7
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Rothictis gen. nov.
Rothictis wintershofensis comb. nov.
Bonisictis gen. nov. (type species Bonisictis ambiguus comb. nov.).
Jorge Morales, Juan Abella, Oscar Caballero, Daniel DeMiguel, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes & Alberto Valenciano (2025)
The enigmatic ailurid Magerictis imperialensis (Mammalia: Carnivora) unveiled: a systematic approach to the early Ailuridae
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2571254
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2571254
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2571254
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2571254
https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:15D893D5-0C61-4652-8919-DAEF998F3953
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Blanca Jiménez-García, Enrique Baquedano & Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo (2025)
Lions as Bone Accumulators? Exploring Multi-Predator Contributions to the Olduvai Carnivore Site (OCS) (Tanzania) Through AI and Metric Analyses
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.70052
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.70052
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/oa.70052
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Felix G. Marx and Hamish J. Campbell (2025)
First record of the Eocene baleen whale Llanocetus outside Antarctica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 705-708
doi:10.4202/app.01271.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012712025.html
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https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012712025.pdf
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Surya Prasad Sharma, Mirza Ghazanfarullah Ghazi, Goura Chandra Das, Aftab Alam Usmani, Ruchi Badola & Syed Ainul Hussain (2025)
Genome assembly of Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) reveals signature of regressive evolution
Genome Biology and Evolution, evaf227
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf227
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf227/8361831
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Panagiotis Kampouridis, Georgia Svorligkou, Nikolai Spassov & Madelaine Böhme (2025)
Postcranial anatomy of the Late Miocene Eurasian hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium
PLoS One 20(12): e0336590.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336590
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0336590
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CHANG Mei-Jing, SHI Qin-Qin, NI Xi-Jun & LI Qiang (2025)
New material of Eospalax simplicidens (Spalacidae, Rodentia) from Jianyucha, Zichang, northern Shaanxi
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251201
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.251201
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Shunsuke Mizuno, Hiromu Sato, Riko Yoshimi, Hiroshi Kiyonari & Masayoshi Tokita (2025)
Osteogenic gene expression in the temporal region of the opossum embryos: an insight into the evolution of the synapsid skull unique to the mammalian lineage
The International Journal of Developmental Biology 69(3): 151 - 158
doi: https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.250093mt
https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/250093mt
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https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/pdf/250093mt
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Richard N. Holdaway (2025)
The genus name for the extinct New Zealand Eagle (Accipitridae) and a suggested replacement for an inappropriate vernacular name
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 145(4): 406-410
doi: https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v145i4.2025.a7
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Hirotsugu Mori (2025)
A tarsometatarsus of a plotopterid bird from the lower Oligocene Yamaga Formation, Ainoshima, Japan
Paleontological Research 29:292-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.250028
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/prpsj/29/0/29_250028/_article
Free pdf:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/prpsj/29/0/29_250028/_pdf/-char/en
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Chromeornis funkyi gen. et sp. nov.
Jingmai O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Ryan Davila, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou (2025)
A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a56.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1589
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5712-longipterygid-enantiornithine-chromeornis
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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1589.pdf
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P J Byrne, N D Smith, E R Schachner, D J Bottjer & A K Huttenlocker (2025)
Evidence for the loss of pneumatization and pneumosteal tissues in secondarily aquatic archosaurs
Integrative Organismal Biology, obaf039
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf039
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obaf039/8363664
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Ariana Paulina-Carabajal and Juan D. Porfiri (2025)
Novel information on the braincase of Megaraptor namunhuaiquii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) using x-ray tomography: pneumaticity, paleoneurology and their paleobiological implications
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.18.10.2025.3657
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/154
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Erik Isasmendi and Elisabete Malafaia (2025)
New contributions to the knowledge of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican landmass
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.17.10.2025.3660
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/156
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Ariel H. Méndez, E. Emanuel Seculi-Pereyra, Javier González-Dionis, Lucía F. Vettorazi, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Federico A. Gianechini, Leonardo S. Filippi, Alberto C. Garrido, Magalí Cárdenas, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Do-Kwon Kim, and Yuong-Nam Lee (2025)
An abelisaurid humerus from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian), Northern Patagonia, with comments on morphological aspects of the humerus in Abelisauridae
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.24.09.2025.3642
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/148
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Audrey Williams & Jerry Harris (2025)
Cervical ligament systems in sauropod dinosaurs: what support is there?
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 13: 81–97.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29412
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29412
Free pdf:
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29412/21474
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James I. Kirkland, ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster, Kirsty Morgan, Julia B. McHugh & John R. Foster (2025)
Differentiating ankylosaur species in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in light of newly recovered skeletal elements of Mymoorapelta maysi from its type locality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v12.pp315-393
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/159
Free pdf:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/159/211
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Raúl Esperante, Jeremy A. McLarty, Kevin E. Nick, Lance R. Pompe, Roberto E. Biaggi, Helen D. Baltazar Medina, Nelson A. Llempen, Ángela B. Limachi Silvestri, Lourdes Lidia Mamani Quispe, Antonio Joaquín Garre Cano, Wilson Quiroga Saavedra & Germán Rocha Rodríguez (2025)
Morphotypes, preservation, and taphonomy of dinosaur footprints, tail traces, and swim tracks in the largest tracksite in the world: Carreras Pampa (Upper Cretaceous), Torotoro National Park, Bolivia.
PLoS One 20(12): e0335973.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335973
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335973
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Fabiana R. Costa, Miguel X. Mailho, Edenilson O. Francisco & Ivan Nunes (2025)
Gaining Ground on Pterosaur Biomechanics: A General Overview
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 97(Suppl. 1): e20250490
doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520250490
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/GGdL5Zn6XYNPCR6rxwCvTQB/abstract/?lang=en
Free pdf:
https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/GGdL5Zn6XYNPCR6rxwCvTQB/?format=pdf&lang=en
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R. V. Pêgas, Anderson S. Nascimento, Lucas C. Piazentin, Felipe L. Pinheiro, Hussam Zaher & Fabiana R. Costa (2025)
Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: ‘Cearadactylus atrox’ as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae)
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2582068
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2582068
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Marco Muscioni, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Cecily S C Nicholl, Tullio Perentin, Diego Dreossi & Federico Fanti (2025)
A ziphodont crocodylomorph from Villaggio del Pescatore Lagerstätte (Campanian, Italy)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(4): zlaf171
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf171
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/205/4/zlaf171/8372002
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Calamosuchus gen. nov.
Calamosuchus arenaceus (E. Fraas, 1896) comb. nov. Holotype. SMNS 80737
Hans-Dieter Sues & Rainer R. Schoch (2025)
Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany.
Fossil Record 28(2): 411-483.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.164405
https://fr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=164405
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Franco Roger Aspromonte & José Patricio O'Gormán (2025)
Assessing the effect of sampling proxies on plesiosaur taxic diversity with comments on implications for Mesozoic sampling design.
Fossil Record 28(2): 397-410.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e173497
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/173497/
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Andrea Villa and Michael Rummel (2025)
Rare, but not unique: a new specimen of the enigmatic gecko Rhodanogekko vireti from the lower Oligocene of southern Germany
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 699-703
doi:10.4202/app.01257.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012572025.html
Free pdf:
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012572025.pdf
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Agustín Scanferla, Judith Babot and Daniel García Lopez (2025)
Completeness, convergent morphology and positive narratives: an intriguing snake skull from the middle-late Eocene of Argentina
Ameghiniana (advance online publication)
doi: 10.5710/AMGH.26.11.2025.3659
https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/153
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Andrés F. Alfonso-Rojas, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Rodolfo Sánchez, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra & Jason J. Head (2025)
An early origin of gigantism in anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) revealed by the fossil record
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2572967
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572967
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572967
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2572967
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Christopher L. Rogoff & Paul V. Ullmann (2025)
Age is just a number: Examining the preservation of cells and soft tissues in Bothriolepis and other Devonian fish.
PLoS One 20(12): e0335783.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335783
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335783
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Caudadercetis taverni sp. nov.
Beukidercetis lissus gen. et sp. nov.
Cyranichthys sideralis sp. nov.
Petrodercetis bidirectus gen. et sp. nov.
Jelle J.A. Heere, Jonathan J.W. Wallaard, Maarten De Rijke, and John W.M. Jagt (2025)
Dercetid fishes from the Maastrichtian type area (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and the Netherlands
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70 (4): 661-697
doi:10.4202/app.01253.2025
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012532025.html
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Dominik L. Rogall, Monika V. Knul, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Boris Gasparyan & Ariel Malinsky-Buller (2025)
The local paleoenvironment of Kalavan-2 based on small-vertebrate remains and its implications for human-environment-dynamics between 60 and 35 ka in the Armenian Highlands
Journal of Quaternary Science (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70029
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.70029
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.70029
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Pedro Piñero, Jordi Agustí, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Ángel Blanco-Lapaz, Eliseo Tesón, Antonio Teixell & Marc Furió (2025)
A new Late Miocene small vertebrate assemblage from the Ouarzazate Basin (High Atlas, Morocco) and its biochronological and paleoenvironmental significance.
Fossil Record 28(2): 377-395.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.175508
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/175508/
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Roberto Emmanuel Hernández Jasso and Alberto Blanco Piñón (2025)
Bioerosion traces in bones of Cuvieronius hyodon from the Loltún Cave, Yucatán: First evidence of osteophagy by insects in Pleistocene caves of Mexico.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a55.
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5727-osteophagy-by-insects
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Yan Gao, Tim A. Moore, Jingjing Liu & Shifeng Dai
Peat wildfires during the Early Cretaceous Aptian–Albian of the Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia, China
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 987
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02946-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02946-2
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Tristan Salles, Laurent Husson, Thran Trung Nguyen, Ana Vila-Concejo, Jonathon Leonard, Ana Paula Da Silva, Jody M Webster & Fabienne Giraud (2025)
Carbonate burial regimes, the Meso-Cenozoic climate, and nannoplankton expansion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(49): e2516468122
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516468122
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2516468122
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2516468122
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Carole T. Gee, Aowei Xie, and Mariah M. Howell (2025)
The whole plant of Araucaria delevoryasii and Agathoxylon hoodii—giant trees with silicified wood, gently tapering trunks, araucarian seed and pollen cones, and Brachyphyllum-type leaves with cuticle from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Howe- Stephens Quarry, Wyoming, USA
Geology of the Intermountain West 12: 293-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v12.pp293-314
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/158
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https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/158/210
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Xin Li, Ding Yang, Liang Wang, and John J. Wiens (2025)
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time
Science Advances 11(49): eadz3071
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adz3071
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3071
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adz3071
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Steven M. Stanley (2025)
Why the punctuational model of evolution is valid
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10058
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