bioRxiv Paleontology

Study of the variability of Pterosaur tracks from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Spain using geometrics morphometry: a new insight on their ichnotaxonomy and anatomical implications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668192v1

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666730v1

Shell accumulation and taphonomic attributes of the stout razor clam Tagelus plebeius as indicator of environmental features in a South American coastal lagoon of international relevance. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664465v1

High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the Dueling Dinosaur locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664044v1

Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663933v1

Locomotor Trends Among Early Mammals Illuminated by Predictors of Arboreality from the Mammalian Appendicular Skeleton https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663922v1

Temporal foundation model unveils ancient HepatitisB virus evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663843v1

Hierarchical importance of factors impacting trilobite cephalic disparity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663686v1

Seed fossil record of Solanaceae revisited https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662944v1

Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661573v1

Evolutionary implications of stipule occurrence in Permo-Carboniferous wetland forests dominated by Psaroniaceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.23.661009v1

Advanced adaptive strategies in an ancestral body plan: insights from a 510-Ma-old leptomitid sponge https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.30.657026v1

Tongue bite apparatus highlights functional innovation in a 310-million-year-old ray-finned fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.10.653277v1

Occurrence of <Anoura geoffroyi> Gray, 1838, (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Quaternary deposits of Lagoa Santa, Brazil https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.30.651513v1

Ancient DNA Reveals Hominoid Evolution: Intermediate DNA Sequences and Advances in Molecular Paleontology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.27.650833v1

The small Canidae from Cuvieri Cave (Quaternary, Pleistocene), Lagoa Santa, eastern Brazil https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.650051v1

Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649532v1

Diversification dynamics of the Palaeozoic actinopterygian radiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648759v1

3D Focused Ion Beam Microscopy of Fossilized Albertosaurus sarcophagus reveals Nano to Microscale Structures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648590v1

THE FUNCTION AND EVOLUTION OF STEGOSAUR OSTEODERMS AND HYPOTHESIZED SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN HESPEROSAURUS https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273v1

Insights on Chamelea gallina growth dynamics from the Holocene climate optimum in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647857v1

Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645488v1

Archaeological Bone Assemblages Trace Changes in Turtle and Tortoise Diversity in Continental Southeast Asia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645446v1

Sir John Murray's H.M.S. Challenger Sedimentary Deposits Collection at the Natural History Museum, London https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.21.644325v1

Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643294v1

Prototaxites was an extinct lineage of multicellular terrestrial eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1

Spatial patterns of trematode-induced pits on bivalve skeletons: Challenges and prospects for research on parasite-host dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643152v1

Phytoliths to apPROXYmate Maya landscapes over early Anthropocene : case of Naachtun tropical wetland. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641636v1

Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639475v1

Reassessing Deep Learning (and Meta-Learning) Computer Vision as an efficient method to determine taphonomic agency in bone surface modifications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635872v1