The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

🚨New Pub!🚨The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses🪾🛠️by Godoy et al.

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A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India Turiasaurs are large-bodied eusauropods found in Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits across Gondwana and Laurasia. However, their early history is poorly known. Here, we report a lower-midd...

🚨New Pub!🚨A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India🦕🇮🇳by Ghosh et al.

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Redescription of the Panoplosaurus mirus (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae) holotype skull using computed tomography, and a new comparative scheme for panoplosaurin cranial ornamentation The late Campanian nodosaurid Panoplosaurus mirus Lambe 1919 was named on the basis of a complete skull and partial postcranium. However, as is typical of ankylosaurs, the constituent elements of t...

🚨New Pub!🚨Redescription of the Panoplosaurus mirus (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae) holotype skull using computed tomography, and a new comparative scheme for panoplosaurin cranial ornamentation💀🩻by Livius et al.

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Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of Late Miocene- Pliocene Samotherium (Giraffidae) from As-Sahabi, Libya: morphometric and machine learning approaches This study presents a comprehensive analysis of seven giraffid astragali from upper Miocene-Pliocene As-Sahabi deposits (Libya), combining morphological examination with machine learning approaches...

🚨New Pub!🚨Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of Late Miocene- Pliocene Samotherium (Giraffidae) from As-Sahabi, Libya: morphometric and machine learning approaches🦒🇱🇾by Al Riaydh et al.

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Astrapotheria from the Las Flores Formation (?lower Eocene) and the dawn of astrapotheres in Patagonia The oldest records of the South American Order Astrapotheria in high latitudes belong to the early Eocene Kibenikhoria faunal zone (Shecenia ctirneru) and the Ernestokokenia faunal zone (Trigonosty...

🚨New Pub!🚨Astrapotheria from the Las Flores Formation (?lower Eocene) and the dawn of astrapotheres in Patagonia🦴⚡️by Kramarz & Bond

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🚨New Pub!🚨Miocene dugongid (Mammalia, Sirenia) diversity in the Indian Ocean, with description of a new genus and species from Kutch, Western India🦴🇮🇳by Saha et al.

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A deciduous basilosaurid incisor with a split mesial carina from the upper Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica Extant cetaceans are likely the direct descendants of the paraphyletic Basilosauridae; the first obligate aquatic members of the Order Cetacea. Basilosaurids achieved a global distribution soon aft...

🚨New Pub!🚨A deciduous basilosaurid incisor with a split mesial carina from the upper Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica🦷🇦🇶by Bajor et al.

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🚨New Pub!🚨The Southernmost Zalophus in the Western North Pacific: The First Pinniped (Carnivora, Pinnipedia) fossil from Taiwan🦭🇹🇼by Sun et al.

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A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A. Fossil bite marks provide insights into trophic and agonistic behaviors, but they can be difficult to associate with a specific actor. Finding embedded teeth, while rare, removes this ambiguity. He...

🚨New Pub!🚨A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A.🐟🦷by Drumheller et al.

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A new antarctaspid (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China Antarctaspids, a basal subgroup within the Arthrodira, display a mosaic of arthrodire and petalichthyid features. However, their morphology has remained poorly understood due to the paucity of well...

🚨New Pub!🚨A new antarctaspid (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China🐟🇨🇳by Xue et al.

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Osteology and relationships of a new shuvosaurid (Pseudosuchia, Poposauroidea) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A. Shuvosauridae is a clade of pseudosuchian archosaurs currently represented by three named species characterized by a body plan strikingly convergent with that of ornithomimid theropod dinosaurs. Th...

🚨New Pub!🚨Osteology and relationships of a new shuvosaurid (Pseudosuchia, Poposauroidea) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A.🦴🇺🇸by Smith & Sidor

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Understanding the Westphalo-Stephanian ichthyofaunal turnover with the contribution of the Vaulnaveys-le-Bas locality (Isère, France) The fossil record of Pennsylvanian actinopterygians from Europe is particularly rich, notably thanks to the Westphalian paralic sites of Northwest Europe, and the late Westphalian–Stephanian Varisc...

🚨New Pub!🚨Understanding the Westphalo-Stephanian ichthyofaunal turnover with the contribution of the Vaulnaveys-le-Bas locality (Isère, France)🐟🇫🇷by Gonçalves et al.

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Gigantic burrfish (Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) tooth plate batteries from the Pliocene Yorktown Formation on the submerged continental shelf, North Carolina, U.S.A. Fossil jaw bones and tooth plate batteries from Diodontidae are relatively abundant in shallow marine deposits along the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains of the U.S.A. Two tooth plate ...

🚨New Pub!🚨Gigantic burrfish (Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) tooth plate batteries from the Pliocene Yorktown Formation on the submerged continental shelf, North Carolina, U.S.A.🦷🔋by Maisch et al.

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Southernmost occurrence of Purgatorius sheds light on the biogeographic history and diversification of the earliest primate relatives Fossils of the earliest known euarchontan mammals, purgatoriid plesiadapiforms, first appear during the aftermath of the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction. The oldest and most basally branching ...

🚨New Pub!🚨Southernmost occurrence of Purgatorius sheds light on the biogeographic history and diversification of the earliest primate relatives🐒🦷by Chester et al.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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