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Re-evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎨: Ian Baylatry
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
A CAMPANIAN GLACIATION (Barrika glaciation)?

AHH

CAMPANIAN GLACIATION
CAMPANIAN GLACIATION
CAMPANIAN GLACIATION

[Low-latitude glaciation in the Cretaceous greenhouse: reviewing the cryosphere reach during an archetypal hothouse Earth] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Neuroanatomical convergence between pterosaurs and non-avian paravians in the evolution of flight

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Art of Matheus Fernandes
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Cellularly preserved chlorophyte from the 518 million year old Chengjiang biota

[new taxon Chaetomorphium cambria]
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the upper jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods

Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis sp. nov.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica

Illustration by Guilherme Gehr

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Arthropods from Tethyshadros Beds!

An Upper Cretaceous arthropod assemblage from Villaggio del Pescatore (Campanian, Italy) and its implications for peri-Tethyan palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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U-Pb calcite age dating of fossil eggshell as an accurate deep time geochronometer
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles

New long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of the turtle brain

sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Early Ordovician sea scorpions from Morocco suggest Cambrian origins and main diversification of Eurypterida

New eurypterid ?Carcinosoma aurorae
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Reproductive biology and anatomy of ammonites
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Diving in the Maastrichtian of Marambio (Seymour) Island: A new member of the Neoaves in the Cretaceous Antarctic avifauna

Pujatopouli soberana gen. et sp. nov.

Illustration by Samanta Faiad
doi.org/10.1016%2Fj....
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I would love to see you doing Plicatostylidae
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence from the most complete stegosaur from Europe
repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/pub...
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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More Privately Excavated and soon to be poached Spicomellus(?)

Is that a Jaw? @tweetisaurus.bsky.social
fr.le360.ma/culture/diap...
November 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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NANOTYRANNUS IS NOT ONLY VALID, BUT GETS A NEW SPECIES!!

[Nanotyranus lethaeus sp. nov]

Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) deep-time peatland evolution in Northwest China driven by climate change
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The rise of lichens during the colonization of terrestrial environments (Spongiophyton nanum)

Paleoart by J. Lacerda

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Advent of three-dimensional sediment exploration reveals Ediacaran-Cambrian ecosystem transition

Treptichnus streptosus isp. nov.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
dactylioceras.bsky.social
Mid-Cenozoic rhinocerotid dispersal via the North Atlantic

Epiaceratherium itjilik sp. nov.

Image Credit: Julius Csotonyi

nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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An early dyrosaurid (Wadisuchus kassabi gen. et sp. nov.) from the Campanian of Egypt sheds light on the origin and biogeography of Dyrosauridae
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM