Anchitherium growth + Hassiavis + Tyrannosaurus growth + Ostenolepis + Parvodus graciliani + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Abstracts free pdf:
18th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates - Conference programme and abstracts
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Laura Martín-Francés, María Martinón-Torres, Marina Lozano, María Hernaiz-García, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro & Luca Fiorenza (2026)
Reconstructing dietary preferences in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos population: A molar macrowear perspective
Journal of Human Evolution 211: 103797
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103797
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001502
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Anastasia Koliasnikova, William Rendu, Sergey Markin & Ksenia Kolobova (2025)
Prey Selection and Transport Patterns in Neanderthal Bison Hunting: Evidence from Chagyrskaya Cave.
Camera praehistorica 15(2): 8–25. (in Russian)
doi: https://doi.org/10.31250/2658-3828-2025-2-8-25
Free pdf:
https://camera-praehistorica.kunstkamera.ru/files/camera_praehistorica/2025_02/01_kolyasnikova.pdf
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Ceri Shipton, Freddie Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Nick Ashton, Mathieu Leroyer & Mark White (2026)
Pronounced increase in biface knapping skill half a million years ago in Britain
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 69: 105563
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105563
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25005966
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Teresa Calderón, Andrea Cuccu, Jorge Morales, Beatriz Azanza & Daniel DeMiguel (2026)
Quantitative histological analysis of dental variability in Anchitherium: insights into growth dynamics and dental development
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113557
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113557
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226000155
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Sólveig M Guðjónsdóttir, Edana Lord, Zoé Pochon, Špela Lemež, Nicolas Dussex, David W G Stanton, Mikkel-Holger S Sinding, Sergey Fedorov, Love Dalén & J Camilo Chacón-Duque (2026)
Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach
Genome Biology and Evolution 18(1): evaf239
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf239
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/18/1/evaf239/8414728
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Christopher A Emerling, Sophie Teullet, Rémi Allio, John Gatesy, Mark S Springer & Frédéric Delsuc (2026)
Pseudogenes Document Protracted Parallel Regression of Oral Anatomy in Myrmecophagous Mammals
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msag009
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msag009/8423541
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Laís Alves-Silva, Ronaldo Araujo Leoni, Fernando Henrique De Souza Barbosa and Hermínio Ismael De Araújo-Júnior (2026)
Differential taphonomic pathways in a Pleistocene cave deposit from Brazil
Lethaia 59(3): 1–11
doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.59.3.5
https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.59.3.5
Free pdf:
https://www.scup.com/doi/epdf/10.18261/let.59.3.5
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Tifanie Duprat, Jérémy Tissier, Ping Li, Pia Geiger-Schütz & Olivier Maridet (2025)
Inventory and preliminary study of Lutetian fossil mammals from the "Oberbuchsiten" collection of the Olten Museum of Nature: focus on perissodactyls
Revue de Paleobiologie 44(11):1-13
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17851906
https://zenodo.org/records/17851906
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Gerald Mayr & Adrian Richter (2026)
Further Hassiavis specimens from the Eocene of Messel (Germany) and the phylogenetic affinities of the Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2598021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2598021
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2598021
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Karl M. Lenser, Elizabeth H. Reed, and Trevor H. Worthy (2026)
Fossil shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) reveal trends in Pleistocene wetlands at Naracoorte Caves, South Australia.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(1): a2
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1608
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5743-south-australian-pleistocene-shorebirds
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N V Zelenkov, M P Maslintsyna, A V Lavrov, D O Gimranov, I S Pavlov, A V Kandyba & A V Protopopov (2025)
A new Late Pleistocene avifauna from Yakutia (Eastern Siberia)
Doklady Biological Sciences 525: 372–378
doi: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496625600642
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0012496625600642
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Michael Wink, Ivan J. Starikov, Karl Schulze-Hagen, Juan José Negro & Antoni Margalida (2026)
What, if anything, is a vulture? Phylogeny and trait evolution in obligate avian scavengers
Journal of Ornithology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-025-02358-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-025-02358-1
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Kristen C. Harmon, Melissa R. Price & Kawika B. Winter (2026)
The “regime shift extinctions” hypothesis and mass extinction of waterbirds in Hawaiʻi
Ecosphere 17(1): e70445
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70445
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.70445
Free pdf:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.70445
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Søren Faurby, T. J. Matthews, K. A. Triantis & F. Sayol (2026)
Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity
Ecography e08267
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecog.08267
Free pdf:
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecog.08267
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Holly N. Woodward, Nathan P. Myhrvold & John R. Horner (2026)
Prolonged growth and extended subadult development in the Tyrannosaurus rex species complex revealed by expanded histological sampling and statistical modeling.
PeerJ 14: e20469
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20469
https://peerj.com/articles/20469/
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Thomas W. Dudgeon, Courtney Brown & David C. Evans (2026)
The internal crest anatomy of Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70125
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70125
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70125
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Jianbo Chen, Yi-Ning Niu, Rongyao Ma, Yan-Ling Zhou, Wen-Jie Liu, Ya-Ming Wang, Hai-Lu You, Xing Xu, Shu-Zhong Shen & Zhuo Feng (2026)
Triassic–Jurassic environmental instability on the subtropical eastern Tethyan margin linked to low-latitude dinosaur dispersal
Communications Earth & Environment (advance online publication)(preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03083-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s43247-025-03083-6
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Peter L. Falkingham & Stephen M. Gatesy (2026)
Formation, preservation, and interpretation of dinosaur tracks
Palaeontology 69(1): e70040
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70040
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70040
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70040
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Valerio Granata, Matteo Belvedere, Alberto Collareta, Giancarlo Molli, Walter Landini, and Lorenzo Marchetti (2026)
Estimating the impact of erosion on a Carnian dinosaur footprint-bearing surface (Lerici, Northern Apennines, Italy).
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(1):a3.
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1530
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5769-impact-of-erosion-on-a-carnian-dinosaur-tracksite
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Bethania C. T. Siviero, Elizabeth Rega, Kevin E. Nick & Art V. Chadwick (2026)
Analysis of pseudopathologies in Edmontosaurus annectens bones: taphonomic implications from biogenetic and diagenetic bone alterations from a Cretaceous bonebed in the Lance Formation, Wyoming
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2600392
https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2600392
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2600392
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2600392
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G. Donzé, G. Perrichon, P. Vincent, F. Therrien & J. E. Martin (2026)
Comparative endocranial anatomy in the crocodylians Leidyosuchus canadensis and Stangerochampsa mccabei from the upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70096
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70096
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70096
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Manuel F. Martinez-Motta, Dirley Cortés, Erin E. Maxwell, Leslie F. Noè, Andrés Alfonso-Rojas, Fredy H. Parra-Ruge & Edwin-Alberto Cadena (2026)
Soft-tissue preservation in an ichthyosaur from the lower Cretaceous (Barremian - Aptian) of Colombia
Cretaceous Research 106305
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106305
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667125002289
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Yi-Lu Liaw, Yi-Yang Cho, Cheng-Han Sun, Deep Shubhra Biswas & Cheng-Hsiu Tsai (2026)
An unexpected snake fossil (Pythonidae, Python) from Taiwan
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2610741
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2610741
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2610741
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Roy Ebel, Jane Melville & J Scott Keogh (2026)
Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 147(1): blaf129
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf129
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/147/1/blaf129/8422532
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Ostenolepis marianii n. gen. et sp.
Peripeltopleurus jurassicus n. sp.
Pholidolepis teruzzii n. sp.
Fabio Franceschi, Giuseppe Marramà & Giorgio Carnevale (2026)
Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) from the Sinemurian (Jurassic) Osteno Konservat-Lagerstätte (Como, Nw Italy)
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 132(1): 9-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/29058
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29058
Free pdf:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/29058/25483
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Joel Crothers, Jaelyn Eberle, Donald Brinkman, Alyssa Wurtz, Andrew B. Heckert, ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster, John R. Foster, Ida C. Dirkes, Renee Dunn (2026)
An actinopterygian-dominated fish fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation, northwestern Colorado, and evidence for provinciality across Laramidia at the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary
Cretaceous Research 106313
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2026.106313
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667126000029
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Clavocharax gen. nov.
Alice Wang, Melanie L J Stiassny & Bruno F Melo (2026)
Phylogenomics, biogeography, and description of a new subfamily and genus of African characiform fishes (Teleostei: Alestidae).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 217: 108546
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108546
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790326000163
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Parvodus graciliani sp. nov.
Larissa de Souza Ribeiro & Marco Aurélio Gallo de França (2026)
A new species of Lonchidiidae (Hybodontiformes) from the Late Jurassic of Brazil (Aliança Formation, Jatobá Basin)
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70120
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70120
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70120
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Michael Chiappone, Michele Guala, Raymond Rogers, Peter Makovicky (2026)
When the levee breaks: experimentally testing dinosaur and mammal bone transport in unsteady flows
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10087
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José F. Barrenechea, Violeta Borruel-Abadía, Ana Belén Galán-Abellán, José López-Gómez, Joan Esterle, Tom McCann, Raúl de la Horra, Ausonio Ronchi, Piero Gianolla, Francisco Javier Luque, Valentina M. Rossi, Niall Paterson, R.M.H. Smith, Derick Wolvaardt, Michael E. Brookfield & Sylvie Bourquin (2026)
Latitude affects continental acidity in the Smithian–Spathian boundary biotic crisis
Geological Magazine 163: e2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756825100472
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Paul M. Myrow; Mingxi Hu; Michael P. Lamb (2026)
Paleohydraulics of cyclonic storm deposits suggest that the equatorial climate of Earth in the Pennsylvanian was not cold
Geology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G53927.1
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