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The official journal of The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

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The ontogenetically youngest known pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) postcranium Pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs are represented in the fossil record primarily by their taphonomically resistant frontoparietal domes that developed fully only at maturity. Consequently, the postcran...

🚨New Pub!🚨The ontogenetically youngest known pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) postcranium👶🦴by Moore et al.

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01.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Skeletal morphology of an early ichthyopterygian, cf. Utatsusaurus hataii, from Japan with an emphasis on CT scan data of the skull The Early Triassic Utatsusaurus hataii is one of the earliest ichthyopterygians and shows numerous plesiomorphic features. An ichthyopterygian specimen, NSM-PV-20028, from the Osawa Formation in Mi...

🚨New Pub!🚨Skeletal morphology of an early ichthyopterygian, cf. Utatsusaurus hataii, from Japan with an emphasis on CT scan data of the skull🐟🦎by Yoshizawa & Tsuihiji

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01.03.2026 08:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Early synapsids from the Cisuralian (lower Permian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: the first definitive South American “pelycosaurs” The paleotropics of Euramerica provide nearly our entire picture of Permo–Carboniferous terrestrial tetrapod evolution. The geographic sampling bias inherent in this record obscures important event...

🚨New Pub!🚨Early synapsids from the Cisuralian (lower Permian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: the first definitive South American “pelycosaurs”🦴🇧🇷by Angielczyk et al.

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01.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia Tetrapods emerged as dominant marine predators during the earliest Triassic, with trematosaurid temnospondyls representing one of the first groups to radiate globally after the cataclysmic end-Perm...

🚨New Pub!🚨Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia🦴🇦🇺by Kear et al.

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24.02.2026 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wild South American camelids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): a review of their evolutionary and biogeographic history This review examines the evolutionary and biogeographic history of South American camelids, which include the wild species guanaco (Lama guanicoe) and vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), and their domestic c...

🚨New Pub!🚨Wild South American camelids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): a review of their evolutionary and biogeographic history🦴🦙by Castillo et al.

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A continental Messinian vertebrate fauna from the Ouedhref area, Southeast Tunisia The Ouedhref Formation in southeastern Tunisia yields, for the first time, a rich Messinian vertebrate fossil assemblage, providing crucial data on Late Miocene vertebrate evolution, biochronology,...

🚨New Pub!🚨A continental Messinian vertebrate fauna from the Ouedhref area, Southeast Tunisia🦴🇹🇳by Ksila et al.

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First Neogene bat from India: implications for a possible radiation of Vespertilioninae during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum A new vespertilionid species, Nycticeinops kutchensis sp. nov., is described here based on an isolated m2 from the lowermost Upper Miocene (Tortonian, ca. 10–11 Ma) of Kutch, western India. This sp...

🚨New Pub!🚨First Neogene bat from India: implications for a possible radiation of Vespertilioninae during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum🦇🇮🇳by Carolin et al.

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First Asian Record of Pantolestes (Mammalia, Pantolesta, Pantolestidae) From the Upper Eocene of Xinjiang, China The intercontinental distribution of closely related mammals provides critical insights into paleogeography and paleoenvironments. During the late Eocene, mammalian faunas between North America and...

🚨New Pub!🚨First Asian Record of Pantolestes (Mammalia, Pantolesta, Pantolestidae) From the Upper Eocene of Xinjiang, China🦴🇨🇳by Qin et al.

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Reappraisal of a multituberculate mammal Buginbaatar transaltaiensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia A multituberculate mammal Buginbaatar transaltaiensis from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation at the Khaychin Ula I locality in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, is herein redescribed b...

🚨New Pub!🚨Reappraisal of a multituberculate mammal Buginbaatar transaltaiensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia🦴🇲🇳by Lopatin & Averianov

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16.02.2026 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Revision of the longirostrine crocodylian Thoracosaurus isorhynchus from the Maastrichtian–Danian of northwestern Europe A highly debated topic in eusuchian systematics has been the placement of “thoracosaurs,” an assemblage of Cretaceous–Paleogene longirostrine crocodylians from Europe and North America. The positio...

🚨New Pub!🚨Revision of the longirostrine crocodylian Thoracosaurus isorhynchus from the Maastrichtian–Danian of northwestern Europe🐊🇪🇺by Boerman et al.

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10.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fossil evidence of exceptionally large egg-clutches sheds light on reproductive diversity in Late Cretaceous crocodyliforms from Brazil The Upper Cretaceous units of the Bauru Group have provided a comprehensive fossil record of eggs and nests belonging to different reptilian clades, such as turtles, crocodyliforms, and dinosaurs. ...

🚨New Pub!🚨Fossil evidence of exceptionally large egg-clutches sheds light on reproductive diversity in Late Cretaceous crocodyliforms from Brazil🐊🥚by Paixão et al.

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07.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A partial ichthyosaur (?Ophthalmosauridae) skeleton from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of western Cuba Here we report the discovery of the first partially articulated ichthyosaur skeleton from the insular Caribbean. The specimen is embedded in a limestone slab that is exposed in the ceiling of a flu...

🚨New Pub!🚨A partial ichthyosaur (?Ophthalmosauridae) skeleton from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of western Cuba🦴🇨🇺by Iturralde-Vinent et al.

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07.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Alickmeron Sen & Ray, 2025 is an objective junior synonym of Alwalkeria Chatterjee & Creisler, 1994 The appendicular material assigned to Alwalkeria maleriensis was recently reanalyzed and concluded that the taxon was founded on a chimera of probable herrerasaurid dinosaur and pterosauromorph mat...

🚨New Pub!🚨Alickmeron Sen & Ray, 2025 is an objective junior synonym of Alwalkeria Chatterjee & Creisler, 1994📖by McDavid et al.

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03.02.2026 06:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Late Miocene/Pliocene divergence of zokors (Myospalacidae, Rodentia) of North Asia: phylogeny and paleobiogeography Recent studies of zokor evolution in Chinese territory have shown that the main divergence of lineages of this family occurred at the boundary of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene. However, the q...

🚨New Pub!🚨Late Miocene/Pliocene divergence of zokors (Myospalacidae, Rodentia) of North Asia: phylogeny and paleobiogeography🌏by Zazhigin & Golovanov

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Dental replacement patterns and morphological diversity in Lower Jurassic sauropods from the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Patagonia, Argentina During their evolution, herbivores have developed various mechanisms to cope with dental wear. One such mechanism was an increase in the number of replacement teeth and in the rate of tooth replace...

🚨New Pub!🚨Dental replacement patterns and morphological diversity in Lower Jurassic sauropods from the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Patagonia, Argentina🦕🦷by Gomez et al.

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🚨New Pub!🚨On the taxonomic status of Tharrhias Castellanoi Duarte and Santos, 1962 (Gonorynchiformes, Chanidae)🐟📜by Veiga et al.

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21.01.2026 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Analysis of pseudopathologies in Edmontosaurus annectens bones: taphonomic implications from biogenetic and diagenetic bone alterations from a Cretaceous bonebed in the Lance Formation, Wyoming Pseudopathology in paleontology refers to postmortem bone alteration mimicking osseous features of disease. Differentiating pathologies from pseudopathologies is critical in the investigation of pa...

🚨New Pub!🚨Analysis of pseudopathologies in Edmontosaurus annectens bones: taphonomic implications from biogenetic and diagenetic bone alterations from a Cretaceous bonebed in the Lance Formation, Wyoming🦴🩻by Siviero et al.

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18.01.2026 06:51 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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High paleolatitude onychodont and rhizodont remains from the upper Famennian (Upper Devonian) Waterloo Farm lagerstätte of South Africa The upper Famennian, high-paleolatitude Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte from Makhanda/Grahamstown in South Africa yields a rich vertebrate assemblage including lampreys, antiarchs, arthrodires, acanthodi...

🚨New Pub!🚨High paleolatitude onychodont and rhizodont remains from the upper Famennian (Upper Devonian) Waterloo Farm lagerstätte of South Africa🐟🇿🇦by Gess & Ahlberg

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08.01.2026 05:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Late Miocene Lemudong’o Formation, Kenya Cainochoerus is an extinct suid (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) taxon of very small size, found in multiple late Neogene sites in southern and eastern Africa. Despite its wide geographic distribution and ...

🚨New Pub!🚨The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Late Miocene Lemudong’o Formation, Kenya🐷🇰🇪by Yang et al.

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20.12.2025 03:48 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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A new large species of weakfish (Acanthuriformes: Sciaenidae: Cynoscion) from the Upper Miocene of Argentina Cynoscion cionei sp. nov., a new species of weakfish (Acanthuriformes, Sciaenidae) recovered from Upper Miocene geologic deposits that crop out in Northeastern Argentina, is described. The type mat...

🚨New Pub!🚨A new large species of weakfish (Acanthuriformes: Sciaenidae: Cynoscion) from the Upper Miocene of Argentina🐟🇦🇷by Noriega et al.

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New records of diverse small reptiles with thecodont implantation from the Carboniferous–Permian Halgaito Formation (Cutler Group) of southeastern Utah, U.S.A. Carboniferous–Permian (C–P) amniotes and stem-amniotes were historically well documented in the southwestern U.S.A., but Carboniferous reptile diversity and abundance was relatively low compared wi...

🚨New Pub!🚨New records of diverse small reptiles with thecodont implantation from the Carboniferous–Permian Halgaito Formation (Cutler Group) of southeastern Utah, U.S.A.🦎🇺🇸by Huttenlocker et al.

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An early origin of gigantism in anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) revealed by the fossil record Anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) are among the largest extant snakes, reaching body lengths up to 7 meters, but the evolution of gigantism in anacondas and its environmental drivers is poorly unders...

🚨New Pub!🚨An early origin of gigantism in anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) revealed by the fossil record🐍🇻🇪by Alfonso-Rojas et al.

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Carnivorans from the late Neogene Pipe Creek Sinkhole (lower Blancan), Grant County, Indiana, U.S.A. Quarrying operations exposed a fossiliferous sinkhole deposit developed in Silurian-age limestone in north-central Indiana. Mitigation efforts recovered thousands of identifiable plant, invertebrat...

🚨New Pub!🚨Carnivorans from the late Neogene Pipe Creek Sinkhole (lower Blancan), Grant County, Indiana, U.S.A.🐶🐱by Tucker & Farlow

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🚨New Pub!🚨An early to middle Uintan (Ui1b–Ui2) mammalian fauna from the upper unit of the middle Eocene Adobe Town Member, Washakie Formation (Wyoming, U.S.A.)🦴🇺🇸by McCarroll et al.

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🚨New Pub!🚨A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicus from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids🐊🇩🇿By Nicholl et al.

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21.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines Alongside large madtsoiid snakes, the largest known lizards, thylacoleonid marsupials and a range of other terrestrial carnivores, the now extinct mekosuchine crocodylians were significant predator...

🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al.

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13.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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The evolution and biological role of the neomorphic ossification of the nasal cartilage in Neosclerocalyptini glyptodonts Cranial neomorphic ossifications are extremely rare and their biological roles are largely unexplored. In mammals, the few known examples concern almost exclusively the anterior part of the snout, ...

🚨New Pub!🚨The evolution and biological role of the neomorphic ossification of the nasal cartilage in Neosclerocalyptini glyptodonts👃🏼🦴by Verger & Sánchez-Villagra

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Floodplain taphonomic mode in a vertebrate assemblage from Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, Cerro Azul Formation (Upper Miocene, central Argentina) Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, a fossil locality in the east of La Pampa Province, Argentina, has yielded a rich assemblage of Late Miocene vertebrates, including Argentavis magnificens, the largest k...

🚨New Pub!🚨Floodplain taphonomic mode in a vertebrate assemblage from Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, Cerro Azul Formation (Upper Miocene, central Argentina)🦴🇦🇷by Sostillo et al.

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🚨New Pub!🚨Bone histology of Liaoningosaurus paradoxus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China🦴🇨🇳by Zheng et al.

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Ontogenetic assessment from dorsal ribs in a mature titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas Osteohistology has provided significant insights into the ontogeny and life history of the sauropod dinosaurs. However, the Titanosauria, which include Earth’s largest terrestrial vertebrates, exhi...

🚨New Pub!🚨Ontogenetic assessment from dorsal ribs in a mature titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas🦕🦴by Fronimos & Woodward

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