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Field-of-view subsampling: A novel ‘exotic marker’ method for absolute abundances, validated by simulation and microfossil case studies

Chris Mays, Marcos Amores, Anthony Mays

published 06 May 2025

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Megafauna mobility: Assessing the foraging range of an extinct macropodid from central eastern Queensland, Australia

Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, Anthony Dosseto, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, Richard Lewis, Scott Hocknull

published 23 Apr 2025

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The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom

Sarah Jamison-Todd, James D. Witts, Marc E. H. Jones, Deborah Tangunan, Kim Chandler, Paul Bown, Richard J. Twitchett

published 03 Apr 2025

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A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Triassic) and an assessment of skeletal sorting

Aaron M. Kufner, Max E. Deckman, Hannah R. Miller, Calvin So, Brandon R. Price, David M. Lovelace

published 02 Apr 2025

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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

Alberto Guadarrama, Kleyton M Cantalice

published 05 Mar 2025

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Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

Joshua Hedge, Ryan T. Tucker, Peter J. Makovicky, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 26 Feb 2025

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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico

Kleyton M. Cantalice, Hugo E. Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, on behalf of the Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

published 06 Feb 2025

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New information on Bonapartenykus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropoda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan

Jorge Gustavo Meso, Jonah Nathaniel Choiniere, Mattia Antonio Baiano, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Juan Ignacio Canale, Leonardo Salgado, Diego Pol, Michael Pittman

published 30 Jan 2025

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Insights into stem Batomorphii: A new holomorphic ray (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the upper Jurassic of Germany

Julia Türtscher, Patrick L. Jambura, Frederik Spindler, Jürgen Kriwet

published 23 Jan 2025

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Towards responsible resource utilization: A review of sustainable vs. unsustainable reuse of wood waste

Eric Agyemang, Kwadwo Ofori-Dua, Peter Dwumah, John Boulard Forkuor

published 23 Dec 2024

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Decay experiments and microbial community analysis of water lily leaf biofilms: Sediment effects on leaf preservation potential

Brianne Palmer, Sabina Karačić, Shook Ling Low, Kathrin Janssen, Harald Färber, Moritz Liesegang, Gabriele Bierbaum, Carole T. Gee

published 18 Dec 2024

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Body-size evolution in gastropods across the Plio-Pleistocene extinction in the western Atlantic

Brendan M. Anderson, Elizabeth Petsios, Jessica Behn, Amy Betz, Warren D. Allmon, Bruce S. Lieberman, Jonathan R. Hendricks

published 13 Dec 2024

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Historical ecology reveals the “surprising” direction and extent of shifting baselines for the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostis)

Thomas J. Pluckhahn, David K. Thulman

published 20 Nov 2024

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