Paromomys borealis + Aeviperditus + Utetitan + Bauru Group titanosaurs + Brontotholus + Xiphodracon + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
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Ben Creisler
I hope people are well.
Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
29. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (ÖPG) (2025)
29th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Paleontological Society (2025)
Abstract Book free pdf:
https://fossils-of-austria.at/images/Abstract_Book_2025.pdf
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Beniamino Mecozzi, Ivana Fiore, Biagio Giaccio, Francesca Giustini, Stefano Mercurio, Lorenzo Monaco, Alessia Argento, Francesco Bucci Casari degli Atti di Sassoferrato, Isabella Caricola, Cristina Lemorini, Francesco Lucchini, Ilaria Mazzini, Maria Rita Palombo, Raffaele Sardella, Andrea Sposato, Enza Elena Spinapolice & Francesca Alhaique (2025)
From meat to raw material: the Middle Pleistocene elephant butchery site of Casal Lumbroso (Rome, central Italy).
PLoS One 20(10): e0328840.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328840
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328840
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George Murătoreanu & Marian Cosac (2025)
Tracing Neanderthal mobility through the Romanian Carpathians: A GIS-based least-cost connectivity model.
PLoS One 20(10): e0334149
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334149
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0334149
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Ángel C. Domínguez-García, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, M. Pilar Alfaro-Ibañez, Luis Luque, J. Javier Alcolea-González, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño (2025)
Palaeoecological context for the last Neanderthals of inland Iberia: small mammals from Los Casares cave (Guadalajara, Spain)
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113325
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113325
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225006108
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Paromomys borealis sp. nov.
Paromomys ignis sp. nov.
Craig S. Scott, Sergi López-Torres, Mary T. Silcox &Lisa L. Bohach (2025)
New species of the plesiadapiform Paromomys Gidley (Primates, Paromomyidae) from the Paleocene of southwestern Alberta, Canada
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2549081
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2549081
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2549081
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Jannik Weidtke, Julia A. Schultz, Michael Morlo, Andreas J. Lang, Thomas Lehmann, and Thomas Martin (2025)
Chewing cycle analysis of Lesmesodon edingeri (Mammalia; Hyaenodonta) and implications for carnivoran feeding adaptions.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a45.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5643-chewing-cycle-analysis-of-lesmesodon-edingeri
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T Brock Wooldridge, Merly Escalona, Blair W Perry, Alexis N Enstrom, Dalya Salih, William E Seligmann, Samuel Sacco, Katherine L Moon, Ruta Sahasrabudhe, Noravit Chumchim, Oanh Nguyen, Joanna L Kelley, Ross D E MacPhee, Beth Shapiro (2025)
Chromosome-scale genomes show rapid diversification and ancient gene flow among bear species
Genome Biology and Evolution, evaf188
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf188
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf188/8275193
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Patrick Arnold, Doris Döppes, Federica Alberti, Andreas Füglistaler, Susanne Lindauer, Christian Hoselmann, Ronny Friedrich, Irka Hajdas, Marc Dickinson, Frank Menger, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Love Dalén, Daniel Wegmann, Kirsty E.H. Penkman, Axel Barlow, Wilfried Rosendahl & Michael Hofreiter (2025)
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial
Current Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.035
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01205-9
Free pdf:
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2825%2901205-9
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J. Enrique Bostelmann T., Raúl Ugalde P., Javier N. Gelfo, Matías Alarcón C., Braulio J. Morales, José Luis Oyarzún & Guillermo D´Elía (2025)
First Paleogene fossil mammal from Magallanes, Patagonia, Chile
Andean Geology 52(3): 311-342
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5027/andgeoV52n3-3794
http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V52n3-3794
Free pdf:
http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V52n3-3794/pdf
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Rebecca L. Kinaston, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Jill Hamel, Chris Lalas, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Amy L. Adams, Richard Walter & Michael Richards (2025)
Reconstructing ecological niche and feeding ecology of pre-contact New Zealand avifauna from Harwood, Otago Peninsula
New Zealand Journal of Ecology 49: 3616
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.49.3616
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3616
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Bassel Arnaout, Kaylen Brzezinski, Albert Chen, Benjamin Steventon & Daniel J. Field (2025)
Galloanseran cranial development highlights exceptions to von Baer’s laws
EvoDevo 16: 17
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-025-00253-7
https://evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13227-025-00253-7
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Leonid Gorobets, Tyt Volynskyi, Mykola Knysh & Oleksandr Kovalchuk (2025)
Species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Aves, Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene—a review
Boreas (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70038
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bor.70038
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.70038
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Aeviperditus gracilis gen. et sp. nov.
Elizabeth M. Steell, Daniel J. Field, Pascale Lubbe, Alex Brown, Nicolas J. Rawlence & Alan J.D. Tennyson (2025)
A possible early bowerbird from the Miocene of New Zealand
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2568099
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2568099
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08912963.2025.2568099
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Andrew Orkney, Priscila S. Rothier and Brandon P. Hedrick (2025)
Great expectations: altricial developmental strategies are associated with more flexible evolution of limb skeleton proportions in birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2056): 20251647
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1647
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1647
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2025.1647
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Jessie Atterholt, M. Grace Burton, Mathew J. Wedel, Juan Benito, Ellen Fricano & Daniel J. Field (2025)
Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis
The Anatomical Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70070
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70070
Free pdf:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.70070
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E. Yagmur Erten, Marc Tollis & Hanna Kokko (2025)
Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time.
PLoS Computational Biology 21(9): e1013432
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013432
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013432
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Philip D. Mannion & Andrew J. Moore (2025)
Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2550760
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2550760
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2550760
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2025.2550760
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Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae gen. et sp. nov.
Gregory S. Paul (2025)
Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America:
Geology of the Intermountain West 12: 201-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v12.pp201-220
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/156
Free pdf:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/156/205
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Edna Gomes Nascimento, Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro, Luciano Vidal, Emerson Ferreira Oliveira, Tamires Carmo Dias & Stephen Brusatte (2025)
Titanosauria of the Bauru Group: a summary of records and their importance for understanding the diversity of the clade in Brazil.
Andean Geology 52(3) : 343-362.
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5027/andgeoV52n3-3797
http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V52n3-3797
Free pdf:
http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V52n3-3797/pdf
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Brontotholus harmoni gen. et. sp. nov.
D Cary Woodruff, John R Horner, Mark B Goodwin & David C Evans (2025)
The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(2): zlaf087
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf087
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/205/2/zlaf087/8279680
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Katsuhiro Kubota & Kohei Tanaka (2025)
Newly discovered archosaur remains and charophyte gyrogonites from the Lower Cretaceous (lower to middle Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation at Tambasasayama and Tamba cites, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Fossils 118: 35-50 (in Japanese, English abstract)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14825/kaseki.118.0_35
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kaseki/118/0/118_35/_article/-char/en
Free pdf:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kaseki/118/0/118_35/_pdf/-char/en
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Stefania Nosotti, Federico Confortini & Simone Maganuco (2025)
A new specimen of Macroplacus raeticus Schubert-Klempnauer, 1975 (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Italy, with remarks on placodont phylogeny
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 687-721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/26086
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/26086
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Xiphodracon goldencapensis gen. et sp. nov.
Dean R. Lomax, Judy A. Massare & Erin E. Maxwell (2025)
A new long and narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval
Papers in Palaeontology 11(5): e70038
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70038
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70038
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70038
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Seishiro Tada, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Donald J. Morgan III, Lawrence M. Witmer & Ingmar Werneburg (2025)
Evolution of the rostral vasculature in turtles
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 64
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00403-3
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00403-3
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Hao Pan, Gaigai Guo, Jing Wang, Gang He, Songtao Guo, Pei Zhang, Rong Hou, Gu Fang, Yuli Li, Ruliang Pan, Kang Huang & Baoguo Li (2025)
Amphibian Biodiversity and Distribution Changes From the Paleozoic in China
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 2025(1): 176395
doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/jzs/1176395
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/jzs/1176395
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1155/jzs/1176395
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Gabryele Malcher, Thamires Oliveira, Paulo Ronaldo Ferreira, Lucila Melo, Patrícia Mendonça, Omar Dominguez-Dominguez, Arturo Angulo, Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García, Rocío Rodiles-Hernández, Péricles Sena do Rêgo & Juliana Araripe (2025)
Evolutionary history of the snooks: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the genus Centropomus.
PLoS One 20(10): e0332412.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332412
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0332412
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Juan Liu, Donald B. Brinkman, Alison M. Murray, Michael G. Newbrey, Zehua Zhou, Lisa L. Van Loon & Neil R. Banerjee (2025)
Marine origins and freshwater radiations of the otophysan fishes
Science 390(6768): 65-69
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr4494
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr4494
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Riccardo Rondelli (2025)
Il grande squalo bianco Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) nel Pliocene di Vignola (Appennino modenese)
The great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Pliocene of Vignola (Northern Apennines, Italy)
Atti della Società dei naturalisti e matematici di Modena 156: 85—109 (in Italian)
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Thomas P. Vida, Jürgen Kriwet & Thomas Martin (2025)
A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany
PalZ (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-025-00744-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-025-00744-x
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Thomas Holm Scharling, Aubrey Jane Roberts, Davide Foffa, Victoria Sjøholt Engelschiøn & Jørn Harald Hurum (2025)
Dental and Dietary Disparity Among Marine Vertebrates from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard – Life Bites the Dust, or A New Hope?
Norwegian Journal of Geology 105(1): 1--45
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.17850/njg105-1-4
Free pdf:
https://njg.geologi.no/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/251008_Scharling.pdf
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Diego Volosky, Philippe Moisan, María Belén Lara, Joerg W. Schneider, Frank Scholze, Mauricio Espinoza, Olga Schmitz,Maite Aguilar, Daniela Morales, Marcelo Flores, Javier Contreras, Peter Frenzel (2025)
A Late Triassic biota from a rift-lake system in southwestern Gondwana (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile)
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113328
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113328
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225006133
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