Aenocyon evolution + Archaeopteryx take-off + Dinevenator + Bartassochersis + Jabalisaurus tethyensis + Placopleurus species + Bataspis + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
I hope all are safe and well.
With the end of the vertpaleo mailing list, I am adding people to the BCC group who want to continue receiving the list and who are not on the Dinosaur Mailing Group, where the weekly lists are also posted and are archived.
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers:
Gadi Herzlinger, Yoel Rak, Patricia Smith & Uzy Smilansky (2026)
A new method for geometric analysis of mandibular features: A case study of Middle Pleistocene hominin upper condylar region
Journal of Human Evolution 103878
doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103878
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000722
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Clément Zanolli, David M. Alba, Thibaut Caley, Marine Cazenave, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Ignacio de la Torre, Anne Delagnes, Lucas K. Delezene, Florent Détroit, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Adeline Le Cabec, Tina Lüdecke, Ann Margvelashvili, Charles Musiba, Simon Neubauer, Yonatan Sahle, Friedemann Schrenk, Matthew M. Skinner, Krister T. Smith, Alessandro Urciuoli, Brian Villmoare, Bernard Wood & Ottmar Kullmer (2026)
The Early Homo Conundrum: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 35(3): e70043
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.70043
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70043
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.70043
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Christophe Falguères, Qingfeng Shao, Jean-Jacques Bahain & Amélie Vialet (2026)
La mandibule de Mauer (Homo heidelbergensis), un fossile de référence pour le Pléistocène moyen en Europe
L'Anthropologie 130(3): 103506
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2026.103506
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003552126000609
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Julia Aramendi (2026)
Functional constraints mask species-level signals in hominid limbs: Long bone morphology and the challenge of taxonomic identification
Functional constraints mask species-level signals in hominid limbs: Long bone morphology and the challenge of taxonomic identification
Journal of Human Evolution 218: 103873
doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103873
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248426000679
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R. Scott Byram, Kent G. Lightfoot & Jun U. Sunseri (2026)
Pike Use in Megafauna Hunting and Antipredator Defense: Historical Techniques and Paleolithic Research
Quaternary 9(4): 56
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat9040056
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/4/56
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Gregory L. Gedman, Kathleen Morrill Pirovich, Jonas Oppenheimer, Chaz Hyseni, Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, Alexander G. Lucaci, Nicolas Alexandre, William Troy, J. Chris Chao, Olivier Fedrigo, Savannah J. Hoyt, Patrick G.S. Grady, Sam Sacco, William Seligmann, Ayusman Dash, Mithil Chokshi, Laura Knecht, James B. Papizan, Tyler Miyawaki, Sven Bocklandt, James Kelher, Sara Ord, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Audrey T. Lin, Brandon R. Peecook, Angela Perri, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Greger Larson, Julie Meachen, Love Dalén, Bridgett vonHoldt, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christopher E. Mason, Rachel J. O'Neill, Elinor K. Karlsson, Brandi L. Cantarel, George R.R. Martin, George Church, Ben Lamm & Beth Shapiro (2026)
On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf
Cell Genomics 101306
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2026.101306
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(26)00168-0
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-979X%2826%2900168-0
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Manuel Ruiz-García & Juan Esteban Fula-Rodríguez (2026)
Population Genetics of the Greater Grison (Galictis vittata; Mustelidae, Carnivora) and How Changes Since Miocene–Pliocene Have Shaped the Phylogenetic Relationships Between Grison Species and Other Neotropical Mustelid Genera
Animals 16(15): 2364
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani16152364
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/16/15/2364
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Alper Yener Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan, Ahmet İhSan Aytek, M. Cihat Alçiçek & Orhan Özbey (2026)
A new record of Homotherium mandible from southwestern Türkiye and its implications for the eastern Mediterranean paleobiogeography
PalZ (advance online publication)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-026-00783-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-026-00783-y
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Valentin Fischer, Floréal Solé, Kevin Le Verger, Bastien Mennecart, Melvin Vankelst, Narimane Chatar, Robert P. Speijer, Stéphane Peigné & Thierry Smith (2026)
The rise of carnivoran mammals in Europe through the lens of body mass
The Royal Society in Biology Letters 22(8): 20260319
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2026.0319
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Melvin Vankelst, Valentin Fischer, Margot Michaud, Davide Tamagnini, Tahlia I. Pollock, Carlo Meloro, Z. Jack Tseng, Narimane Chatar
Decoupling geometry and topography reveals contrasting ecomorphological signals in carnivoran carnassial teeth
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2076): 20260400 .
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0400
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Victor Abade de Carvalho Ramos & Artur Chahud (2026)
New data on Quaternary lagomorphs from Lagoa Santa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
[Novos dados sobre lagomorfos quaternários de Lagoa Santa, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil]
Brazilian Geographical Journal 17(1): 1–13 (in English)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14393/BGJ-v17n1-a2026-80393
https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/braziliangeojournal/article/view/80393
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Sun Bo-yang, Wang Yuan, Wang Fa-zhi, Zhu Min, Huang Bai-ting & Jin Chang-zhu (2026)
New Tapirus fossils from the Lower Pleistocene Renzidong Paleolithic Site of Anhui.
Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 65(1): 71−78. (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.3724/aps.2024033
https://www.sciengine.com/ActaPalaSin/doi/10.3724/aps.2024033
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Erwin González-Guarda, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Carlos Tornero, Lidiane Asevedo, Natalia Villavicencio, Sebastián Escobar, José Luis Román, Melissa Hidalgo, Esteban Benalcázar & Florent Rivals (2026)
Testing the Dry Refuge Model: Paleoecological Insights From Late Pleistocene Gomphotheres in Ecuador
Ecology and Evolution 16(8): e74099
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74099
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.74099
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.74099
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Daichi Nakai (2026)
Bone histological evidence for posture-related load transmission in the talpid pectoral girdle
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70222
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70222
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joa.70222
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Joshua L. Gaschk, Robert L. Cieri, Bella R. Chaseling, David G. Hamilton & Christofer J. Clemente (2026)
Convergent carnivores or divergent dasyurids? Inferring predation and locomotor strategies of extant and extinct carnivorous marsupials from locomotor shape
BMC Ecology and Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-026-02569-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-026-02569-x
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Jhonata H. A. Martins & Leonardo Kerber (2026)
Osteology of the pectoral girdle and forelimb of Siriusgnathus niemeyerorum, a Late Triassic traversodontid cynodont from Brazil
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70289
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70289
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70289
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Michael G. Campana, Madhvi X. Venkatraman, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Anna M. Kearns, Nichelle M. VanTassel, Amberleigh E. Henschen, Natalia A. S. Przelomska, Nancy Rotzel McInerney, Margad-Erdene Ochirbat, Heather R. L. Lerner, Taylor E. Callicrate, Molly Hagemann, Eben H. Paxton, Loren Cassin-Sackett, Helen F. James, and Robert C. Fleischer (2026)
Reticulated adaptive radiation and phylogenomic diversity loss in the Hawaiian honeycreepers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(32): e2536533123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2536533123
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536533123
Free pdf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2536533123
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Chuan Jiang, Yang Liu, Wen-Wen Zhu, Nassoro Mohamed, Jia-Zheng Jin & Bo Li (2026)
Genome-wide SNVs revealed reticulate evolutionary history of a Eurasian-African songbird radiation (Saxicola torquatus complex).
Zoological Research 47(4): 1265-1278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2025.266
https://www.sciengine.com/ZR/doi/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2025.266
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Cyanoliseus bravardi (Agnolín, 2006) nov. comb.
Gastón E. Lo Coco, Gerardo P. Álvarez Herrera, Sebastián Rozadilla & Federico L. Agnolín (2026)
Pleistoanser bravardi Agnolín, 2006 (Aves), a taxonomic journey from Anseriformes to Psittaciformes
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2689711
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2689711
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Sara Citron, Christy Anna Hipsley, Julian Hume, Helen James, Peter Andrew Hosner, Kálmán Czeibert, Aubrey Keirnan, Ana Cecilia Castro Rodrigues Silva, Stig Walsh, Vera Weisbecker & Andrew N Iwaniuk (2026)
The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 207(4): zlag123
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag123
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/207/4/zlag123/8751003
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E.A. Meilak, N.J. Gostling, C. Palmer, P. Provini & M.O. Heller (2026)
Hop, hop and away: On the take-off of Archaeopteryx using a multiple leaping mechanism
Developmental Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.07.018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160626001648
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Dinevenator gen. nov. (for “Saurornitholestes” robustus)
Steven E. Jasinski and Robert M. Sullivan (2026)
Dinevenator, a New Genus of Troodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of New Mexico
Fossil Studies 4(3): 21
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fossils4030021
https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/3/21
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Juliano Sousa Marques Peixoto, Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Lívia Motta Gil, Luciano da Silva Vidal & Raylon da Frota Lopes (2026)
Record and faunistic composition of Titanosauria (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) from the Bauru Group of Goiás State and Triângulo Mineiro
Brazilian Geographical Journal 17(1): 1-33 (in Portuguese)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14393/BGJ-v17n1-a2026-80414
https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/braziliangeojournal/article/view/80414
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Donghao Wang, Lida Xing, Bruce M. Rothschild, Chunlei Du, Kexiang Wen, Jin Lin, Mengling Kang & Jiayin Su (2026)
A case of an expansile lesion in a caudal vertebra of Medusaceratops lokii.
Fossil Record 29(2): 599-610.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.193112
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/193112/list/9/
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Stephanie C Lechki & Roger B J Benson (2026)
The explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs
Evolution, qpag117
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag117
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag117/8738986
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Roger S. Seymour, Case Vincent Miller, Qiaohui Hu, Martin D. Ezcurra, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Marc E. H. Jones, Susannah C. R. Maidment, Daniela Schwarz, Eric W. Wilberg, Nicolás E. Campione & Gordon Grigg (2026)
Blood flow rates to long bones of archosaurs reveal high aerobic metabolic rates and endothermy throughout most of their evolutionary history
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.10110
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Ji Shu’an (2026)
First discovery of the Early Cretaceous pterosaur from western Gansu Province and supplement to the Mazongshan Dinosaur Fauna.
Geological Bulletin of China 45(7): 1374−1382 (in Chinese with English abstract)
DOI: 10.12097/gbc.2023.08.034.
https://www.sciengine.com/GeoBullChina/doi/10.12097/gbc.2023.08.034
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Bartassochersis lopezi gen. et sp. nov.
Tomasz Szczygielski, Fanny Celestin, Sylvain Adnet & Guillaume Guinot (2026)
Triassic turtles of France: the first European Rhaetian stem turtle taxon (clades Testudinata, Proterochersidae)
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 851-879.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.198341
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/198341/list/9/
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Jabalisaurus tethyensis sp. nov.
Erin E. Maxwell, Jule Neumann, and Giovanni Serafini (2026)
Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from southern Germany.
Palaeontologia Electronica 29(2): a30
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1676
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5919-late-jurassic-ichthyosaurs-from-germany
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https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1676.pdf
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Ana M Saldarriaga-Gómez, Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira, Mario Vargas-Ramírez, George Amato & Evon Hekkala (2026)
Genome evolution and long-term demographic history in true crocodiles
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics jkag178
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkag178
https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkag178/8752653
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Rafael Marquina-Blasco, Plinio Montoya, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Sánchez & Vicente D. Crespo (2026)
Early Miocene herpetofauna from the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin (Castelló, eastern Spain): a first step towards modern herpetofaunas in the Iberian Peninsula.
Fossil Record 29(2): 533-574.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.189879
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/189879/list/9/
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Kelsey M. Jenkins, Caleb M. Gordon, Lisa S. Freisem, Christopher T. Griffin & Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar (2026)
The evolution of the ‘third eye’ illuminates shifting amniote ecologies through the Late Paleozoic and Triassic
Royal Society Open Science 13(8): rsos260464
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.260464
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S. D. Biju, Gajaba Ellepola, A. N. Dikshit Akalabya Sarmah, Radhakrishna Upadhyaya, Karan Bisht, Tage Tajo, James Hanken, and Sonali Garg
Systematics, molecular phylogeny, diversification, and biogeography of cascade frogs (Ranidae: Amolops) from India: an integrative assessment with description of three new species
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 164(1): 1-144
doi: https://doi.org/10.3099/MCZ88.1
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PU Yan, WANG Meng-Jun & LU Jing (2026)
A new tetrapodomorph specimen from the Middle Devonian of Qujing, Yunnan, China
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260804
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260804
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Khalafallah Salih, David C. Evans, Robert Bussert, Nicole Klein, Mutwakil Nafi & Johannes Müller (2026)
First Late Cretaceous ichthyofauna from the Kababish Formation and its paleoenvironmental significance and paleogeographic implications
Fossil Record 29(2): 589-598
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.188705
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/188705/
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Placopleurus taibonensis sp. nov.
Placopleurus verbanensis sp. nov.
Placopleurus seidli sp. nov.
Placopleurus zmelkooworum sp. nov.
Placopleurus evelynae sp. nov.
Davide Conedera, Tomaž Hitij, Cristina Lombardo, Massimiliano Andreetti, Roberto Gatto, and Andrea Tintori (2026)
New species of the miniature fish Placopleurus (Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Italy and Slovenia reveal the oldest near-homocercal tail
Canadian Journal of Zoology 104: 1-23.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0136
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjz-2025-0136
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Nicolae Trif (2026)
On the first occurrence of Anoxypristis (Pristidae, Elasmobranchii) in the Paleogene of Romania and southeastern Europe.
Carnets Geol. 26: 317-326.
doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/carnets.2026.2613
https://carnetsgeol.net/ojs/CG/article/view/60
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https://carnetsgeol.net/ojs/CG/article/view/60/62
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Bataspis crux gen. et. sp. nov.
Xinyuan Meng, Humberto G. Ferrón, Davide Pisani, Zhikun Gai & Philip C. J. Donoghue (2026)
Bataspis crux, a galeaspid (jawless stem gnathostome) from the Lochkovian of Yunnan with a batwing-shaped head adapted for hydrodynamic efficiency
Palaeontology 69(4): e70081
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70081
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70081
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pala.70081
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Jia-Chen Cai, Hao-Ran Sun, Wen-Jin Zhao & Min Zhu (2026)
The late Silurian Xiaoxiang Vertebrate Fauna in South China inhabited a tropical nearshore marine environment.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 14:1860860.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1860860
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1860860/full
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YAO Su-Yuan, HOU Ye-Mao, YIN Peng-Fei, ZHANG Xiao-Mei, LIU Xiao-Yue, ZHU Min & LU Jing (2026)
ADMorph: an open-access 3D morphological database for the study of vertebrate evolution
Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260805
https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260805
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Fen Yang, Sen Li, Stephen E. Grasby, David P. G. Bond, Ming Pan & Yadong Sun (2026)
Permian-Triassic redox shift and its ferruginous aftermath in epicontinental seas
Climate of the Past 22(8): 1481-1497
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-1481-2026
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/1481/2026/
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Vladimir Sheinkman, Anastasiia Kurgaeva, Sergey Sedov, Elena Bezrukova, Denis Sharapov, Oleg Sizov & Andrey Yurtaev (2026)
New geological record for the late Pleistocene chronostratigraphy, paleoecology and correlations across northern Eurasia: Tyiakha section, north-western Siberia
Quaternary International 781: 110420
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110420
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061822600306X
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Xu-Dong Gou, Yun Guo, Tao Zhao, Stephen McLoughlin, and Zhuo Feng (2026)
Quantitative reconstruction of the Yiwu Jurassic Forest in Northwest China and high forest productivity in the Middle Jurassic
Science Advances 12(32): eaeh1682
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeh1682
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh1682
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aeh1682
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