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Redescription of three fossil baleen whale skulls from the Miocene of Portugal reveals new cetotheriid phylogenetic insights

Rodrigo Figueiredo, Mark Bosselaers, Liliana Póvoas, Rui Castanhinha

published 13 Mar 2024

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Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time

C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer, Frank A. Corsetti, Nathan D. Smith

published 14 Feb 2024

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Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago

Luca Nishimura, Akio Tanino, Mayumi Ajimoto, Takafumi Katsumura, Motoyuki Ogawa, Kae Koganebuchi, Daisuke Waku, Masahiko Kumagai, Ryota Sugimoto, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Hiroki Oota, Ituro Inoue

published 24 Jan 2024

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Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards

Sara J. ElShafie

published 05 Jan 2024

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Geometric morphometrics and paleoproteomics enlighten the paleodiversity of Pongo

Jülide Kubat, Ryan Paterson, Ioannis Patramanis, Graeme Barker, Fabrice Demeter, Arnaud Filoux, Ottmar Kullmer, Meaghan Mackie, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Sytha Pheng, Jessica Rippengal, Friedemann Schrenk, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Lim Tze Tshen, Athiwat Wattanapituksakul, Wei Wang, Clément Zanolli, Enrico Cappellini, Anne-Marie Bacon

published 15 Dec 2023

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The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa

Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy

published 29 Nov 2023

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Quaternary rodents of South Africa: A companion guide for cranio-dental identification

Pierre Linchamps, D. Margaret Avery, Raphaël Cornette, Christiane Denys, Thalassa Matthews, Emmanuelle Stoetzel

published 28 Nov 2023

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Reinforcing the idea of an early dispersal of Hippopotamus amphibius in Europe: Restoration and multidisciplinary study of the skull from the Middle Pleistocene of Cava Montanari (Rome, central Italy)

Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Mancini, Daniel Tentori, Chiara Cavasinni, Jacopo Conti, Mattia Yuri Messina, Alex Sarra, Raffaele Sardella

published 22 Nov 2023

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Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa

Caitlin Reddy, Ben Thuy, Mhairi Reid, Robert Gess

published 25 Oct 2023

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Creating frames of reference for chert exploitation during the Late Pleistocene in Southwesternmost Iberia

Joana Belmiro, Xavier Terradas, João Cascalheira

published 20 Oct 2023

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Edible flora in pre-Columbian Caribbean coprolites: Expected and unexpected data

Jelissa Reynoso-García, Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez, Yvonne Narganes-Storde, Raul J. Cano, Gary A. Toranzos

published 11 Oct 2023

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Archean (3.3 Ga) paleosols and paleoenvironments of Western Australia

Gregory J. Retallack, Mark D. Schmitz

published 27 Sep 2023

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Late paleozoic climate revealed by coral fossil patterns

Weijia Zhang, Jiaju Li, Xue Cheng, Hangjie Yu, Shaomin Cai

published 15 Aug 2023

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