Our new paper is available online:

Neotropical bunodont litopterns and the systematics of Megadolodinae (Mammalia: Litopterna)
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/45/15

#paleontology #fossil #fossils #Litoptern #fossilmammals

Transverse canal foramen and pericarotid venous network in metatheria and other mammals
(Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 462)

#Mammals #fossilmammals #marsupials #Metatheria #metatherians #pericarotid #cranial #skull

https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/7324

25-million-year-old #fossils of a bizarre #possum and strange #wombat relative reveal Australia’s hidden past.
https://theconversation.com/25-million-year-old-fossils-of-a-bizarre-possum-and-strange-wombat-relative-reveal-australias-hidden-past-200262
#paleontology #marsupials #fossilmammals

I you want to read the papers:

🔬 Bizarre possum: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2023.2171299?journalCode=ujvp20

🔬 Wombat relative: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2023.2181397

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals

Esteban, J.M., Martín-Serra, A., Pérez-Ramos, A. et al. Investigating the land-to-sea transition in carnivorans from the evolution of sacrum morphology in pinnipeds. J Mammal Evol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-023-09650-y

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Takehisa Tsubamoto & Hajime Taru (2022)

A new fossil specimen of the Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the upper Miocene Oiso Formation and a brief review of Neogene suids from Japan

The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 128(1): 287-293

DOI https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.2022.0027

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geosoc/128/1/128_2022.0027/_article/-char/en

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals

Anna K. Gillespie (2023)
Two new marsupial lion taxa (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early and Middle Miocene of Australia,
Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2152096
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2022.2152096

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals

Goin, F., Vieytes, E., Crespo, V., & Oliveira, É. (2023). †Estelestes ensis (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the early Eocene of Baja California (Mexico) as a generalized polydolopimorphian. Journal of Paleontology, 1-6. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.105

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals

E H Zack, S M Smith, K D Angielczyk, From Fairies to Giants: untangling the effect of body size, phylogeny, and ecology on vertebral bone microstructure of Xenarthran mammals, Integrative Organismal Biology, 2023;, obad002, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad002

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals

Varajão de Latorre D (2023) Fossil bacula of five species of Borophaginae (Family: Canidae): Implications for their reproductive biology. PLoS ONE 18(1): e0280327. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280327

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilMammals #Paleomammalogy

Timothy F. Flannery, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, E. Grace Veatch & Kristofer M. Helgen (2022) The Gondwanan Origin of Tribosphenida (Mammalia), Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288