Cave paleontology + Shargaotis + Pluridens imelaki + Paleoteius + Tanyka + Curvorudentis + Acanthophleges + Eomastix + Sabbathichthys + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Book of Abstracts of the XXXVIII Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados
LIBRO DE RESÚMENES DE LAS XXXVIII JORNADAS ARGENTINAS DE PALEONTOLOGÍA DE VERTEBRADOS
Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1)(R) (2026)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.23.02.2026.567
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/567
Free pdf:
https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/567/942
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
John D. Speth (2026)
Modern Human Origins: Do We Know What We're Looking For?
Quaternary Environments and Humans 100102
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2026.100102
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236526000083
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Paul Rodway, Matz Lennart Larsson & Astrid Schepman (2026)
The modified fighting hypothesis of handedness: Evidence from sharp force injuries and further considerations.
Laterality (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2026.2638523
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2026.2638523
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Amélie BEAUDET, Emeline DUPONT, Franck GUY, Jean DUMONCEL, Robert ATWOOD, Vincent FERNANDEZ, Nghia T. VO, Ronald J. CLARKE, Jason L. HEATON, Travis R. PICKERING, Kristian J. CARLSON, Gérard SUBSOL & Dominic STRATFORD (2026)
Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 (“Little Foot”)
in Hublin J.-J., Mounier A. & Teyssandier N. (eds), Lucy’s Heirs – Tribute to Yves Coppens.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 25(3): 43-56
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a3
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/25/3
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/comptes-rendus-palevol2026v25a3.pdf
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Nikolai Spassov, Dionisios Youlatos, Madelaine Böhme, Ralitsa Bogdanova, Latinka Hristova & David R. Begun (2026)
An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00691-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00691-0
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Fabio Alfieri, Julia Arias-Martorell, Carla Argilés-Esturgó & Damiano Marchi (2026)
The locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(3): zlag021
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag021
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/206/3/zlag021/8509525
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Stephen G. B. Chester, Jordan W. Crowell, David W. Krause & Tyler R. Lyson (2026)
Southernmost occurrence of Purgatorius sheds light on the biogeographic history and diversification of the earliest primate relatives
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2614024
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2614024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2614024
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2026.2614024
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Kazım Halaçlar & Chien-Hsiang Lin (2026)
First island colonisation by Hystrix subcristata (Mammalia, Rodentia): fossil evidence from Pleistocene, southern Taiwan.
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 293-302
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.175168
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/175168/
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Elena Armaroli, Francesco Fontani, Rocco Iacovera, Elisabetta Cilli, Adriana Latorre, Donata Luiselli, Sara Silvestrini, Gabriele Terlato, Giampaolo Dalmeri, Alex Fontana, Nicola Nannini, Hubert Vonhof, Lucio Calcagnile, Gianluca Quarta, Rossella Duches, Eugenio Bortolini, Anna Cipriani, Stefano Benazzi, Federico Lugli & Matteo Romandini (2026)
Ecology and demographic structure of an extinct ibex population in late Upper Palaeolithic Italian Alps
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-32389-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-32389-w
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Xiaofang Zhou, Deng Pan, Jiong Zhou, Wu Chen, Ge Han, Ru Zhang, Chen Wang, Yifan Mao, Zecheng Du, Fenglei Zhang, Huishan Yue, Jinrui Ma, Zihe Li, Ren-Juan Shen, Bao Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Yingmei Peng, Kangxin Jin, Dong-Dong Wu, Wen Wang, Botong Zhou, Zi-Bing Jin, and Lei Chen (2026)
Cis-regulatory evolution reveals sensory trade-offs as a genetic basis for temporal niche evolution in tapirs.
Science Advances 12(10): eadz4758
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz4758
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz4758
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Tous gen. nov. Flannery & Helgen for Petauroides ayamaruensis Aplin, 1999
Tim F. Flannery; Loukas G. Koungoulos; Erik Meijaard; Aksamina M. Yohanita; Arman Muharmansyah; Ichlas AlZaqie; Kenneth P. Aplin; Frederika Korain; Marneks Mjam; Kristofer M. Helgen (2026)
A new genus of hemibelideine possum (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae) from New Guinea and Australia, including a Lazarus taxon from the Vogelkop Peninsula.
Records of the Australian Museum 78(1): 35-52.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.78.2026.3004
https://journals.australian.museum/flannery-2026-rec-aust-mus-781-3552/
Free pdf:
https://journals.australian.museum/media/dd/documents/3004_complete.28054aa.pdf
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Tim F. Flannery; Kenneth P. Aplin; Carlos Bocos; Loukas G. Koungoulos; Kristofer M. Helgen (2026)
Found alive after 6,000 years: modern records of an ‘extinct’ Papuan marsupial, Dactylonax kambuayai (Marsupialia: Petauridae), with a revision of the systematics and zoogeography of the genus Dactylonax.
Records of the Australian Museum 78(1): 17-34.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.78.2026.3003
https://journals.australian.museum/flannery-2026-rec-aust-mus-781-1734/
Free pdf:
https://journals.australian.museum/media/dd/documents/3003_complete.5a0289d.pdf
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Tim F. Flannery; Loukas G. Koungoulos; Mark D. B. Eldridge (2026)
Towards an understanding of marsupial interchange between Australia and New Guinea.
Records of the Australian Museum 78(1): 77-86.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.78.2026.3007
https://journals.australian.museum/flannery-2026-rec-aust-mus-781-7786/
Free pdf:
https://journals.australian.museum/media/dd/documents/3007_complete.3337144.pdf
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Charles J. Salcido & P. David Polly (2026)
Parallelism of mandibular function in therian carnivores: a morphometric, phylogenetic, and finite element analysis
Paleobiology 52(1): 104 - 120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10068
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Wenxia Han, Tao Zhang, Jian Zhang, Hong Ao, David B. Kemp, Tianli Wang, Jimin Sun, Xiaoli Yan, Shiqi Wang, Qigao Jiangzuo, Qian Tian, Yifei Fan, Li Mai, Niels Meijer & Xiaomin Fang (2026)
Late Miocene Asian monsoon intensification and turnover of Asian mammal communities
Communications Earth & Environment (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03354-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s43247-026-03354-w
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Chen Huang, BingJun Wang, Jianglong Yu, Stephen J. Rossiter & Huabin Zhao (2026)
Convergent evolutionary shifts in AGT targeting between mitochondria and peroxisomes across mammal transitions to herbivory
Nature Communications 17: 2161
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70246-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-026-70246-0
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D. Herranz-Rodrigo, J. Yravedra, A. Serrano-Ramos, S. Viranta, J. Saarinen, José A. Solano García, C. Sánchez-Bandera & J.M. Jiménez-Arenas (2026)
Dealing with age. Prey mortality profiles at the Early Pleistocene sites of Orce (Granada, Spain)
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2614965
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2614965
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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4) (2025)
(cave paleontology issue)
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_1_Full.pdf
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Some vertpaleo (mainly mammal) related articles:
Vincent L. Santucci, John-Paul Hodnett, Patricia Seiser, Justin S. Tweet& John “Jack” Wood (2025)
National Park Service cave paleontology: 2002-2023.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 108-116.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0119
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_108.pdf
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Richard S. White and Gary S. Morgan (2025)
Natural traps, shelters, or predator dens: why are Pleistocene Fossil Pronghorn (Mammalia: Antilocapridar) found in caves.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 117-136.
DOI:10.4311/2023PA0110
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_117.pdf
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Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Jim I. Mead, and William D. Peachey (2025)
Late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna and bat guano deposit of LA Tetera Cave, Arizona, USA.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 147-174.
DOI:10.4311/2023PA0115
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_147.pdf
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Charles P. Bruce and Jim I. Mead (2025)
Quarternary badger (Mustelidae: Taxidea) from Snake Creek Burial Cave, Nevada.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 178-189.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0100
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_178.pdf
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Jim I. Mead, Christopher N. Jass, Sandra L. Swift, and Sharon Weaver.
Late Quaternary faunas from caves in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 190-201.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0102
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_190.pdf
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Kevin L. Seymour (2025)
The Oregon Caves National Monument fossil jaguar and the paucity of fossil jaguars from the western USA.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 202-215.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0105
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_202.pdf
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James C. Chatters, H. Gregory McDonald, Blaine W. Schubert, and Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales (2025)
Cenotes, caves, and sloths: Pleistocene sloth diversity on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico and Belize.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 216-224.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0106
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_216.pdf
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L. Espinasa, R. Espinasa-Pereña, S. Espinasa-Diamant and R. Diamant (2025)
A fossil sloth skeleton from a cave in Quenetaro, Mexico.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 239-245.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0113
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_239.pdf
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Gary S. Morgan and Nicholas J. Czaplewski (2025)
The North American fossil record of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from cave and karst deposits.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 265-313.
DOI:10.4311/2024PA0116
Free pdf:
https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_265.pdf
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Shargaotis ignipes gen. et sp. nov.
N. V. Zelenkov (2025)
Bustards (Aves: Otididae) from the Middle Miocene of Mongolia
Paleontological Journal 59: 683–691
doi: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030125601045
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030125601045
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Takumi Satoh (2026)
Origins of Avian Hyperactive Mitochondria, Genome Compaction, and Air-Sac Physiology in Early Theropods During the Carnian Pluvial Episode
Journal of Developmental Biology 14(1): 11
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jdb14010011
https://www.mdpi.com/2221-3759/14/1/11
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Carlos A. Hernández-Luna, Christophe Hendrickx, Alejandro Hiram Marín-Leyva & Thomas D. Carr (2026)
The dentition of tyrannosauroid theropods: a review
Discover Geoscience 4: 96
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44288-026-00454-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44288-026-00454-0
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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández (2025)
A preliminary report of a new Late Triassic sauropodomorph from Thuringia
Semana 40: 6
DOI: 10.7934/P6062
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Michael J. Benton & Emily J. Rayfield (2026)
Bringing dinosaurs to life: A scientific revolution in palaeobiological methods
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113684
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113684
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018226001471
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Pluridens imelaki sp. nov.
Nicholas R. Longrich and Nour-Eddine Jalil (2026)
A Giant Halisaurine from the Late Maastrichtian of Morocco
Diversity 18(3): 159
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18030159
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/3/159
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Magnus Wolf, Axel Janke & Krister T. Smith (2026)
The genome of the relict earless monitor lizard, Lanthanotus borneensis, and the Toxicofera hypothesis
BMC Biology 24: 58
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02552-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02552-4
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Paleoteius lakui gen. et sp. nov.
Federico L. Agnolín, Mauro Aranciaga-Rolando, Gerardo Álvarez-Herrera, Martín D. Ezcurra, Ana Moreno Rodríguez, Pablo Chafrat, Nahuel Vega, Agustín Scanferla, Krister T. Smith & Fernando E. Novas (2026)
A new late Cretaceous squamate from Patagonia sheds light on Gondwanan diversity
Scientific Reports (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-40914-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-40914-8
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Tanyka amnicola gen. et sp. nov.
Jason D. Pardo, Claudia A. Marsicano, Roger Smith, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Jörg Fröbisch, Christian F. Kammerer & Martha Richter (2026)
An aberrant stem tetrapod from the early Permian of Brazil
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293(2066): 20252106
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2106
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John H. Calder, Andrew C. Scott, Brian L. Hebert, Andrew C. Milner & Matthew R. Stimson (2026)
Carboniferous tetrapod fauna of the fossil lycopsid trees at Joggins and the origin of the hollow tree guild
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 101177
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101177
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787826000179
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Jeremy McCormack, Harry Maisch IV, Martin A. Becker, Michael L. Griffiths, Jade Knighton, Robert A. Eagle, Kevin Stevens, Wolfgang Müller & Kenshu Shimada (2026)
Sharks as apex predators in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway empirically revealed by zinc isotope analyses
Gondwana Research (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2026.01.022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X26000626
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Curvorudentis gen. nov. (C. prorogatus comb. nov.)
Arnaud Begat, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Manuel Amadori, Stefanie Klug & Jürgen Kriwet (2026)
Revision of the extinct shark Synechodus prorogatus Kriwet, 2003 (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and its galeomorph affiliation
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 303-311
doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.187852
https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/187852/
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Acanthophleges lessiniae n. gen. et n. sp.
Bolcaichthys solanensis n. sp.
Contemptor mastinoi n. gen. et n. sp.
Eomastix zabimaru n. gen. et n. sp.
Lepidoclupea renga n. gen. et n. sp.
Sabbathichthys osbournei n. gen. et n. sp.
Thyrsitoides cangrandei n. sp.
Veronaphleges ambrosii n. sp.
Pietro Calzoni, Luca Giusberti, Eliana Fornaciari, Valeria Luciani, Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo, Massimo Bernardi, Riccardo Tomasoni & Giorgio Carnevale (2026)
The Ypresian ichthyofauna of the Monte Solane Lagerstätte (Verona, northern Italy): A deep dive into the western Tethys early Eocene mesopelagic setting.
PLoS One 21(3): e0338490.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338490
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338490
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Matt Friedman and Sam Giles (2026)
Cranial structure of †Chondrosteus acipenseroides re-examined: implications for upper jaw homologies in acipenseriform fishes
Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 37(6): 117–143
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/b06e41b3-23ab-41b6-b1f9-cd25ac8c5dcb
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Werner W. Schwarzhans, Kai Ingemann Schnetler, Kent Albin Nielsen, Mogens Stentoft Nielsen & Henrik Madsen (2026)
Otoliths from the late Oligocene Brejning Formation of Denmark – a testimony of a deep, cool-water fish fauna
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 75: 73–133
doi: https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2026-75-05
Free pdf:
https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull75-73-133.pdf
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Szymon Czyżewski, Skjold Alsted Søndergaard, Ábel Péter Molnár, Matthew Roy Kerr, Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, Joe Atkinson, Jonas Trepel, Maciej Sykut, Paweł Radzikowski, Signe Sangill Termansen, Karol Wałach, Elena A. Pearce, Sean E.H. Pang, Bartłomiej Zając, Juraj Bergman, Emil Sloth Thomassen, Ninad Mungi, Camilla Fløjgaard, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Robert Buitenwerf & Jens-Christian Svenning (2026)
Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome
Biological Conservation 316: 111749
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111749
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320726000571
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Shan Liu, David Van Rooij, Meiting Chen, Haiyu Fan, Guo Li, Yutong Shi, Yujie Liu, Zhi Lin Ng, Kunwen Luo, Li’e Lin & Haiteng Zhuo (2026)
High productivity and multilayered circulation in the Late Cretaceous Arctic Ocean
Science Advances 12(1006): eaec4895
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aec4895
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec4895
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aec4895
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Fanni Dóra Kelemen, Richard Lohmann, Jiang Zhu, and Bodo Ahrens (2026)
Role of paleogeography on large-scale circulation during the early Eocene
Climate of the Past 22(3):505-516
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-505-2026, 2026
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/505/2026/
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