Sivaonyx sarwari + Australarus + Miolarus + Chadititan + temnospondyls + Tongdulepis + more free pdfs
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Hester Hanegraef & Fred Spoor (2025)
Morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla
Journal of Human Evolution 201: 103651
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103651
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000041
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Ignacio de la Torre, Luc Doyon, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Rafael Mora, Ipyana Mwakyoma, Jackson K. Njau, Renata F. Peters, Angeliki Theodoropoulou & Francesco d’Errico (2025)
Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago
Nature (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08652-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08652-5
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S. Pla-Pueyo & E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch (2025)
Wetlands as environments of early human occupation: A new classification for freshwater palaeowetlands
The Depositional Record (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.327
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dep2.327
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dep2.327
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José A. Solano-García & Anne-Marie Moigne (2025)
Hunters of the “Mediterranean Triad”: persistent and intensive exploitation of faunal resources during the Late Middle Pleistocene at Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Spain)
Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4: 1517568
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2025.1517568
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Giulia Marciani, Antonino Vazzana, Owen Alexander Higgins, Ivan Martini, Gabriele Terlato, Simone Severi, Sara Silvestrini, Matteo Romandini, Gruppo Speleologico Neretino, Francesco Berna, Francesco Iacono, Lucio Calcagnile, Gianluca Quarta, Adriana Moroni & Stefano Benazzi (2025)
Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay)
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 63: 105064
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105064
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25000963
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Sivaonyx sarwari sp. nov.
Khalid MAHMOOD, Michael MORLO, Sayyed Ghyour ABBAS, Muhammad Adeeb BABAR & Muhammad Akbar KHAN (2025)
The Lutrinae (Mustelidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Upper Miocene to the Lower Pleistocene deposits of Pakistan
Geodiversitas 47(5): 301-311
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a5
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/47/5
Free pdf:
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a5.pdf
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Andrew A. Berg, Megan Askew, Frederik V. Seersholm, Alexander J. F. Verry, A. Rus Hoelzel, Andreanna Welch, Karen Greig, Richard Walter, Michael Knapp, Axel Barlow, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Jonathan M. Waters, Michael Bunce, Kate McDonald, Sue O'Connor, Brenda Hall, Paul L. Koch, Carlo Baroni, Maria Cristina Salvatore, Patrick Faulkner, Simon Y. W. Ho, Nicolas J. Rawlence & Mark de Bruyn (2025)
Postglacial Recolonization of the Southern Ocean by Elephant Seals Occurred From Multiple Glacial Refugia
Global Change Biology 31(3): e70101
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70101
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.70101
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.70101
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Margot D. Nelson, Olivier Lambert & Mark D. Uhen (2025)
Reassessment of the iconic Oligo-Miocene heterodont dolphin Squalodon: a redescription of the type species S. grateloupii
Papers in Palaeontology 11(2): e70003
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70003
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70003
Free pdf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.70003
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Edoardo Terranova, Giovanni Bianucci, Marco Merella, Chiara Sorbini & Alberto Collareta (2025)
Retrieving Palaeoecological Information from Historic Fossil Finds: A Taphonomic Cold Case from Orciano Pisano (Central Italy) Reveals a Distinctive Trophic Interaction in the Pliocene Mediterranean Sea
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13(3): 508
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13030508
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/3/508
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Conner J. Bennett, Nicholas A. Famoso, and Daniel I. Hembree (2025)
Following their footsteps: Report of vertebrate fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA.
Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): a11
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1502
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5469-john-day-fossil-tracks
Free pdf:
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1413.pdf
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Alessio Iannucci, George E. Konidaris, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Joan Madurell-Malapeira and Raffaele Sardella (2025)
Introduction: Mammals Biochronology and Paleoecology of the Euro-Mediterranean Quaternary
Quaternary 8(1): 12
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8010012
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/1/12
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Zanildo Macungo, Julien Benoit & Ricardo Araújo (2025)
Inostrancevia africana, the first diagnosable gorgonopsian (Therapsida, Synapsida) from the Metangula graben (Mozambique): new anatomical observations and biostratigraphic implications
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 12
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00348-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00348-7
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Australarus bakeri gen. et sp. nov.
Miolarus rectirostrum gen. et sp. nov.
Vanesa L. De Pietri, R. Paul Scofield, Suzanne J. Hand, Mike Archer, Alan J.D. Tennyson & Trevor H. Worthy (2025)
Early Miocene gull-like birds (Charadriiformes: Laridae) from New Zealand
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.08.021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699525000191
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Junya Watanabe (2025)
Aspects of diversity, paleobiology, and morphology of wing-propelled diving birds
Geobios (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.005
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699525000208
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Jamie R. Wood, Chengran Zhou, Theresa L. Cole, Morgan Coleman, Dean P. Anderson, Phil O’B. Lyver, Shangjin Tan, Xueyan Xiang, Xinrui Long, Senyu Luo, Miao Lou, John R. Southon, Qiye Li & Guojie Zhang (2025)
Sedimentary DNA insights into Holocene Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) populations and ecology in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Nature Communications 16: 1798
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56925-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56925-4
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Angela D. Buscalioni (2025)
Scientific and artistic representations in avian evolution
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.30463
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30463
Free pdf:
https://turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpalaeontology/article/view/30463/31946
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Chadititan calvoi gen. et sp. nov.
Federico Agnolin, Matías Motta, Jordi García Marsá, Mauro Aranciaga Rolando, Gerardo Alvarez Herrera, Nicolás Chimento, Sebastián Rozadilla, Federico Brizzon-Egli, Mauricio Cerroni, Karen Panzeri, Sergio Bogan, Silvio Casadio, Juliana Sterli, Sergio Miquel, Sergio Martínez, Leandro Perez, Diego Pol & Fernando Novas (2024)[2025]
New fossiliferous locality from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) from northern Patagonia, with the description of a new titanosaur
Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales nueva serie 26(2): 217-259
doi:10.22179/REVMACN.26.885
http://revista.macn.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevMus/article/view/885/715
Free pdf:
http://revista.macn.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevMus/article/download/885/715
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Elsa PANCIROLI, Gregory F. FUNSTON, Susannah C. R. MAIDMENT, Richard J. BUTLER, Roger B. J. BENSON, Brett L. CRAWFORD, Matt FAIR, Nicholas C. FRASER & Stig WALSH (2025)
The first and most complete dinosaur skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691024000148
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Enzo E. Seculi Pereyra, Juan Vrdoljak, Martín D. Ezcurra, Javier González-Dionis, Carolina Paschetta & Ariel H. Méndez (2025)
Morphology of the maxilla informs about the type of predation strategy in the evolution of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Scientific Reports 15: 7857
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87289-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-87289-w
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Duangsuda CHOKCHALOEMWONG, Soki HATTORI, Hirokazu YUKAWA, Masateru SHIBATA & Wilailuck NAKSRI (2024)
A new ornithomimosaurian material from the Khok Kruat Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Thailand
Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 23: 1–7
https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/archive/memoir/memoir023-001.pdf
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Chen Chen, Liqin Ji, Guiyun Huang, Xiaoli Liu, Haigang Chen, Yakun Wang, Lingyun Yu, Yihui Liu, Xiaoyou Hong, Chengqing Wei, Congcong Wu, Laifu Luo, Xinping Zhu & Wei Li (2025)
Comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of the soft-shelled turtles Palea steindachneri and Pelodiscus axenaria and phylogenetic implications for Trionychia
Scientific Reports 15: 7138
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-90985-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90985-2
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Aamir Mehmood, Suresh A. Singh, Armin Elsler and Michael J. Benton (2025)
The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction
Royal Society Open Science 12(3): 241200
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241200
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241200
Free pdf:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241200
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Eudald Mujal, Hans-Dieter Sues, Raphael Moreno, Joep Schaeffer, Gabriela Sobral, Sanjukta Chakravorti, Stephan N.F. Spiekman & Rainer R. Schoch (2025)
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments
Earth-Science Reviews 105085
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105085
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825225000467
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Alberto Guadarrama & Kleyton M Cantalice (2025)
Two contemporaneous morphs of fossil Chanos Lacepède, 1803 (Gonorynchiformes, Chanidae) from Paleocene (Danian) outcrops near Palenque (Mexico) revealed by geometric morphometrics indicate conservatism in milkfishes after the K/Pg boundary
PLoS ONE 20(3): e0313912
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313912
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313912
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Tongdulepis concavus gen. et sp. nov.
Yanchao Luo, Zhaohui Pan and Min Zhu (2025)
A new tubalepid fish (Antiarcha, Placodermi) from the Middle Devonian of Huize, Yunnan, China
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 11
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00349-6
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-025-00349-6
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Giulia Bosio, Alberto Collareta, Matteo Pedini, Maria Elena Gastaldello, Francesco Nobile, Luca Pellegrino, Pietro Paolo Pierantoni, Elisa Malinverno, Olivier Lambert, Giuseppe Marramà, Walter Landini, Giorgio Carnevale, Rafael Varas-Malca, Claudio Di Celma, Stefano Mazzoli, Mario Urbina & Giovanni Bianucci (2025)
Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru)
Journal of Maps 21(1): 2472779
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2025.2472779
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2025.2472779
Free pdf:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17445647.2025.2472779
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Scott Lidgard & Emma Kitchen (2025)
Living Fossil: A Metaphor’s Travels Across Popular Culture and the Foundations of Darwinian Evolution and Anthropology
Journal of the History of Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09807-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-025-09807-w
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Xiaoya Ma, Chi Zhang, Lingxiao Yang, S. Blair Hedges & Bojian Zhong (2025)
New insights on angiosperm crown age based on Bayesian node dating and skyline fossilized birth-death approaches
Nature Communications 16: 2265
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57687-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57687-9
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Thomas Westerhold, Edoardo Dallanave, Donald Penman, Blair Schoene, Ursula Röhl, Nikolaus Gussone, Junichiro Kuroda (2025)
Earth orbital rhythms links timing of Deccan trap volcanism phases and global climate change
Science Advances 11(10): eadr8584
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr8584
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8584
Free pdf:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adr8584
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Nils Björn Baumann, Marcel Regelous, Thierry Adatte, Anette Regelous, Karsten M. Haase & Hassan Khozyem (2025)
Tellurium and Mercury in Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene Sediments as Proxies for Volcanic Activity in the Deccan and North Atlantic Large Igneous Provinces
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 26(2): e2024GC011967
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011967
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011967
Free pdf:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GC011967
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