bioRxiv Paleontology

Examples of adaptive peak tracking as found in the fossil record https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692820v1

Old Collections, New Perspectives: Analytical Reassessment of One of Europe's Biggest Archaeological Broomcorn Millet Deposits (Romania) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690670v1

FINS - A global occurrence dataset of fossil neoselachians from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689757v1

Complexity Begets Simplicity: Self-Supervised Learning for Palaeontological Images with Few or No Labels https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688022v1

New data on Quaternary lagomorphs from Lagoa Santa, State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687685v1

A Quantitative Review of Biodiversity Trends during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686803v1

Predator-prey scaling laws support a suspension-feeding lifestyle in Cambrian lobopodians https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686786v1

Niche partitioning and limited mobility characterise Middle Pleistocene kangaroos from eastern Australia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685489v1

The phylogenetic signal of extinction through the rise and fall of early vertebrates: field of bullets or clustered strike? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684355v1

The locomotor behavior of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Palaeopropithecidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683631v1

{micro}CT Scanning Effects on DNA and a Multi-Step Workflow for Archaeological Petrous Bones https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680114v1

Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1

Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678747v1

Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678280v1

A stromatoporoid-like sediment-agglutinating sponge from microbialites of Cambrian Stage 4 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678569v1

Microwear variability in a spatially and temporally constrained elephant population: Implications for interpreting the diets of extant and extinct proboscideans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676112v1

Ancient DNA from the Toronto subway deer adds to the extinction list of North America's Ice Age megafauna https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676284v1

Mass Extinction Triggered the Early Radiations of Jawed Vertebrates and Relatives (Gnathostomes) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673971v1

The oldest fossil record of a living true eel lineage (Protanguillidae, Anguilliformes) from Mexico reveals the gradual acquisition of modern eel traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.03.674097v1

Big Isotopic Data link millet consumption under Lombard rule in early medieval northern Italy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672877v1

Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672811v1

Cretaceous crocodyliform reconciles conflicting evidence on the Mesozoic paleogeography of Europe during the Gondwana-Laurasia split https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.671775v1

New insights into the extinction and recovery of marine vertebrates across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event in the Dolomites, Southern Alps, Italy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.23.671916v1

Ecological inference from isolated vertebrae: Evaluating functional signal across the carnivoran spine https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.16.670649v1

Foraminiferal environmental DNA reveals late Holocene sea-level changes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669806v1

The skull of Tonatia bidens Spix, 1823, found in ancient deposits of Abismo Ponta de Flecha Cave, Ribeira Valley, Southeastern Brazil https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.669759v1

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