Bromackerichnus + Waltonius + Jinchuanloong + Zhongyuansaurus junchangi + Traskasaura + Asmodochelys leviathan + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers and items with free pdfs:
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Abstracts Book (2024) not yet mentioned
The 175th Anniversary of the Maastrichtian – a Celebratory Meeting
Maastricht, September 8-11, 2024
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7th Triennial Mosasaur Meeting – A global perspective on Mesozoic marine amniotes
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New Monograph:
Spencer G. Lucas & Chris Mansky (2025)
EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN ICHNOFOSSILS FROM BLUE BEACH (NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA), AND THE ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF TETRAPODS
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 99: 221 pp.
ISBN: 1524-4156
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Eleanor M. Williams, Alastair Key, Ignacio de la Torre & Bernard Wood (2025)
Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 79: 101704
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101704
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416525000492
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Zenobia Jacobs, Elena I. Zavala, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, Michael V. Shunkov, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Vladimir A. Uliyanov, Paul Goldberg, Alexander K. Agadjanian, Sergei K. Vasiliev, Frank Brink, Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer & Richard G. Roberts (2025)
Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave
Nature Communications 16: 4738
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60140-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60140-6
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Tesla A. Monson & Marianne F. Brasil (2025)
The evolution of facial length and molar proportions in cercopithecid monkeys
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1492411
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1492411
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1492411/full
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Nelson M. Novo, Gabriel M. Martin, Laureano R. González Ruiz & Marcelo F. Tejedor (2025)
The Earliest Known Radiation of Pitheciine Primates
American Journal of Primatology 87(5): e70040
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.70040
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.70040
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajp.70040
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Onja H. Razafindratsima, Veronarindra Ramananjato, Finaritra Randimbiarison, Seheno Andriantsaralaza, Anja R. S. Rafaharetana, Tanjoniaina H. N. P. Rabarijaonina, Nasandratra Nancia Raoelinjanakolona, Diary N. Razafimandimby, Rindra H. Nantenaina, Njaratiana A. Raharinoro, Hasinavalona Rakotoarisoa, Tsinjo S. A. Andriatiavina, Sandra M. Rasoarimalala, Harielle F. Ratianarinambinina, Mirana J. E. Rahariniaina, Fidisoa Rasambainarivo, Rita Ratsisetraina, Rindrahatsarana Ramanankirahina, Alida F. Hasiniaina, Hanta Razafindraibe, Eliette Noromalala & Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina (2025)
120 Years of “Lemurology”: A Qualitative Review of What We Have Learned
Biotropica 57(3): e70047
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70047
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.70047
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70047
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Z. Jack Tseng & Xiaoming Wang (2025)
Borophagine canids of the Monarch Mill Formation (Middle Miocene), Nevada, U.S.A
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699525000397
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Adrian MARCISZAK, Małgorzata KOT, Katarzyna ZARZECKA-SZUBIŃSKA & Grzegorz LIPECKI (2025)
Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland).
Comptes Rendus Palevol 24(14): 241-302
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a14
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/24/14
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/comptes-rendus-palevol2025v24a14.pdf
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Maciej T. Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Rafał Kowalczyk, Peter Tung, Hervé Bocherens
New model for estimating trophic position in mammalian carnivores based on bone collagen individual amino acids nitrogen stable isotopes
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113040
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113040
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003256
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Tahlia Pollock & Philip S. L. Anderson (2025)
Sharpening our understanding of saber-tooth biomechanics
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25690
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25690
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25690
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Adam Hartstone-Rose (2025)
Commentary: The missing sabertooth baculum—At what point might the absence of evidence reasonably be considered evidence of absence?
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25692
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25692
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25692
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Rachel V. Pacheco-Scarpitta (2025)
Comparative Craniodental Morphology of Two Endemic Fossil Sus Species (Suidae, Mammalia) From the Middle Pleistocene of Java (Indonesia)
Journal of Morphology 286(5): e70057
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70057
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70057
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmor.70057
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Emmanuel GHEERBRANT, Guillaume BILLET & Martin PICKFORD (2025)
New data on the earliest known arsinoitheriid embrithopod (Mammalia, Paenungulata), Namatherium Pickford, Senut, Morales, Mein & Sanchez, 2008 from the middle Eocene of Namibia.
Geodiversitas 47(8): 343-368
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a8.
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/47/8
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/geodiversitas2025v47a8-pdfa.pdf
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Bromackerichnus requiescens ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.
Lorenzo Marchetti, Antoine Logghe, Michael Buchwitz & Jörg Fröbisch (2025)
Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior
Current Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.077
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00574-3
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2900574-3
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Waltonius burhinoides gen. et sp. nov.
?Parvigrus ypresiensis sp. nov.
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener (2025)
Two new species of larger gruiform and charadriiform birds from the London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00653-6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00653-6
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Jiajia Wang, Rui Qiu, Qian Chen, Di Liu, Tongbo Zhang, Ying Li, Xinjun Zhang,
Baopeng Wang, Dongyu Hu, Dong Ren, Xiaolin Wang, Xiaofei Xia, Yuguang Zhang,
Weiting Zhang & Ming Bai (2025)
The ultrastructure of the Cretaceous feathers highlights the evolution of the
feather
Science Bulletin (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.04.073
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927325005213
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Shuo Wang, Shuo Wang, Nuo Ding, Waisum Ma, Wenmiao Yu, Tingting Zheng,
Jonah Choiniere & Xing Xu (2025)
Direct evidence of carnivory in the early-diverging Alvarezsaurian Bannykus
The Innovation Geoscience (pre-proof)
doi: https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100143
https://www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100143
Free pdf:
https://www.the-innovation.org/data/article/geoscience/preview/pdf/XINNGEOSCIENCE-2024-0122.pdf
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Jacob Bahn, Germán H. Alférez and Keith Snyder (2025)
Machine Learning Classification of Fossilized Pectinodon bakkeri Teeth Images: Insights into Troodontid Theropod Dinosaur Morphology
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 7(2): 45 (early access)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/make7020045
https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4990/7/2/45
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Jinchuanloong niedu gen. et sp. nov.
Ning Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xinxin Ren, Daqing Li & Hailu You (2025)
A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China
Scientific Reports 15: 17936
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03210-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03210-5
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Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst and Ursula B. Göhlich (2025)
Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies
Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250325
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250325
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250325
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.250325
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Zhongyuansaurus junchangi sp. nov.
ZHANG Ji-ming, JIA Lei, XU Li, YOU Hai-lu, GAO Dian-song, LIU Di, LI Yu & WANG Yan-chao (2024)
New ankylosaurid material from the Lower Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province
Acta Palaeontologia Sinica 64(1): 60-73 (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024037
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250104
Free pdf:
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxb/article/pdf/20250104
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Tobias Massonne & Felix J. Augustin (2025)
Re-evaluation of historic putative caimanine material from the lower Palaeocene Salamanca Formation in Patagonia (Argentina).
Fossil Record 28(1): 147-163.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.28.e150567
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/150567/
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Traskasaura sandrae gen. et sp. nov.
F. Robin O’Keefe, Elliott Armour Smith, Robert O. Clark, Rodrigo A. Otero, Anna Perella & Patrick Trask (2025)
A name for the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia: a strange new elasmosaur taxon from the Santonian of Vancouver Island
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2489938
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938
https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CCD94C38-E0E7-43CE-B757-A387D055C229
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M. E. Pereyra, J. O'Gorman & A. Chinsamy (2025)
Osteohistology of the Maastrichtian, small-bodied elasmosaurid Kawanectes lafquenianum (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria)
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14273
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14273
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.14273
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Asmodochelys leviathan sp. nov.
Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian & Patrick Kline (2025)
A novel marine turtle (Pan-Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae) from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of north central Texas, U.S.A.
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 23
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00363-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00363-8
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Robert E. Weems, Spencer G. Lucas, César Sequeira, Valentin Chesnel, Diego Rodríguez, Guillermo E. Alvarado, Thais Ramírez, Amado Vargas & Cristian Vargas (2025)
Late Miocene turtles from Southern Costa Rica
Revista Geológica de América Central 72: 1-19
doi: https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.2025.65017
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/65017
Free pdf:
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/65017/64135
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Jiang Wang, Yunhao Xu, Huiwen Zhu, Chuanwu Chen, Yifan Zhao & Yanping Wang (2025)
CheloniansTraits: a comprehensive trait database of global turtles and tortoises
Scientific Data 12: 840
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05089-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05089-3
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Spencer G. Lucas, César Sequeira, Valentin Chesnel, Diego Rodríguez, Guillermo E. Alvarado, Thais Ramírez, Joanna C. Méndez, Amado Vargas, Cristian Vargas & Gustavo Ruiz (2025)
Boid snake fossils from the Neogene of Southern Costa Rica
Revista Geológica de América Central 72: 1-11,
doi: https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.2025.64924
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/64924
Free pdf:
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/64924/64052
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JIANG Juan, BI Shun-dong, DAI Rui-ming & DONG Li-ping (2025)
Taxonomy and phylogeny of Polyglyphanodontia (Squamata): a comprehensive review
Acta Palaeontologia Sinica 64(1): 84-99 (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024035
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250106
Free pdf:
http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/pdf/20250106
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Jacob B. Pears, Zerina Johanson, Catherine A. Boisvert & Kate M. Trinajstic (2025)
Reconstructing the paired fin skeletons and musculature in arthrodires from the Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia: implications of arthrodire appendicular anatomy for the serial homology of vertebrate limbs
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2486071
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2486071
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2486071
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2025.2486071
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Emily M. Carr, Rene P. Martin, Mason A. Thurman, Karly E. Cohen, Jonathan M. Huie, David F. Gruber & John S. Sparks (2025)
Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes
Nature Communications 16: 4826
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59843-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59843-7
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Alina Kanarkina, Nikolay G. Zverkov & Evgeny V. Popov (2025)
The first record of the pachycormid fish Bonnerichthys in Eurasia marks a global distribution of Late Cretaceous suspension-feeding giants
Journal of Palaeogeography 100255
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.100255
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383625000616
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César A. Laurito, Cristian Calvo & Ana L. Valerio (2025)
Consideraciones taxonómicas acerca de la paleoictiofauna de la localidad de Alto Guayacán, Formación Uscari, Mioceno tardío-Plioceno temprano [N17 a N19]: registro del género Nebrius e ictiolitos asociados
[Taxonomic considerations about the paleo-ichthyofauna of the locality of Alto Guayacán, Uscari Formation, late Miocene-early Pliocene [N17 a N19]: record of the genus Nebrius and associated ichthyolites]
Revista Geológica de América Central 72: 1-13
doi: https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.2025.65181
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/65181
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https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/65181/64150
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Gene Hunt, Kjetil Lysne Voje & Lee Hsiang Liow (2025)
Punctuated equilibrium: state of the evidence
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.31
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Yara Haridy, Sam C. P. Norris, Matteo Fabbri, Karma Nanglu, Neelima Sharma, James F. Miller, Mark Rivers, Patrick La Riviere, Phillip Vargas, Javier Ortega-Hernández & Neil H. Shubin (2025)
The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08944-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08944-w
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John R. Stewart 1, Inger G. Alsos 2, Antony G. Brown 2 3, Love Dalén 4 5 6 & Peter D. Heintzman (2025)
The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.005
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534725000941
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Samuel R. R. Cross, James P. Charles, William I. Sellers, Jonathan R. Codd and Karl T. Bates (2025)
Exploring the accuracy of palaeobiological modelling procedures in forward-dynamics simulations of maximum-effort vertical jumping
Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 242109
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242109
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242109
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.242109
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Chenyang Cai, Kevin P Johnson, Yanzhe Fu, Daniel R Gustafsson, Dany Azar, Yitong Su, Qiang Xuan, Michael S Engel & Diying Huang (2025)
Cretaceous chewing-louse eggs on enantiornithine birds.
National Science Review 12(2): nwae479
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwae479 .
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/12/2/nwae479/7945223
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Diana Ochoa, Matthieu Carré, Juan-Felipe Montenegro, Thomas J. DeVries, Dayenari Caballero-Rodríguez, Oris Rodríguez-Reyes, Angel Barbosa-Espitia, Jorge Cardich, Edgar Cruz-Acevedo, Danilo Cruz, David A. Foster, María LaTorre-Acuy, Franco Quispe, María Rivera-Chira, Pedro E. Romero, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, Mario Urbina & José-Abel Flores (2025)
Late Miocene greening of the Peruvian Desert
Communications Earth & Environment 6: 391
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02322-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02322-0
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Stewart M. Edie, Katie S. Collins, and David Jablonski (2025)
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota
Science Advances 11(21): eadv1171
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adv1171
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1171
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adv1171
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Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Ligia Pérez-Cruz, Axel Wittmann, José A. Arz, Ignacio Arenillas, Long Xiao, Jiawei Zhao, Vicente Gilabert, Eduardo Salguero-Hernandez (2025)
Chicxulub central zone structure and stratigraphy—PEMEX exploration drilling program
Frontiers in Earth Science 13: 1550746
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1550746
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1550746/fullORIGINAL RESEARCH article
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Mickey Mortimer
is Rijke et al.'s extended abstract "Keeping the light shining on the truly Maastrichtian dinosaurs, those from Maastricht!", which includes "NHMM K21.03.950 ... a partial left femur, representing around 30 per cent of the bone and preserving the proximal part, with the exclusion of the femoral head" from the Maastrichtian Meerssen Member of the Maastricht Formation in the Netherlands. Interestingly, the authors write "Comparison with the femur of Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis from the Campanian (Carr et al., 2005) and of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis (Brusatte et al., 2011) from the Maastrichtian of North America, suggest it to have come from a tyrannosaurid", which would be big news as the first European tyrannosaurid. However, as the specimen preserves basically no details past the sectional shape, eroded fourth trochanter and associated scars, I'm very skeptical any assignment past Averostra is well supported. But looking at Figures 2 and 3 of Csiki-Sava et al. (2015), it doesn't seem implausible a Laurentian eutyrannosaur could cross Greenland to the London-Brabant High in the early Late Cretaceous.
Reference- Csiki-Sava, Z., Buffetaut, E., Ősi,
A., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., & Brusatte, S. L. (2015). Island life in
the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and
extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European
archipelago. ZooKeys, (469), 1-161.
Mickey Mortimer