bioRxiv Paleontology
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Iridescence in pterosaur pycnofibers and the evolution of integumentary coloration
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723168v1
14 days ago
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Early Vertebrates Were Not Slow: Rapid Life Histories in Devonian Agnathans
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.26.720944v1
25 days ago
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Nineteenth-century emergence of a seafloor ecosystem beyond late Quaternary limits
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.26.720923v1
25 days ago
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A practical pipeline for volume rendering of trillion-voxel tomographic data
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.11.717885v1
about 1 month ago
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Humans could become the greatest driver of biosphere net gain in Earth history, but we are currently the second fastest driver of biosphere loss
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.715592v1
about 1 month ago
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Mosaic terrestrial diversity dynamics through the Permo-Triassic interval
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717602v1
about 1 month ago
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Robust evidence for modest diversity loss across the K/Pg in neoselachians: Response to Guinot et al.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.716966v1
about 1 month ago
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Clade dynamics support an early origin of crown eukaryotes
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714154v1
about 2 months ago
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Rapid and robust sex determination from ancient enamel proteomes using protSexInferer
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713598v1
2 months ago
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Phloem evolved gradually and asynchronously to xylem in early vascular plants
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713640v1
2 months ago
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Developmental variation in pterygoid segmentation clarifies patterns of avian bony palate evolution
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713852v1
2 months ago
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Morphological comparison between cell-like entities from mammalian tissues and Precambrian microfossils
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.22.713352v1
2 months ago
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Contrasting Species-Level and Genus Level Disparity Patterns within the ammonoid family Acanthoceratidae
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713222v1
2 months ago
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New insights into the postcranial morphology of Lithornis vulturinus from the Eocene London Clay
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.711321v1
2 months ago
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Linear morphometrics fail to support strong sexual dimorphism in Uintatherium anceps
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709752v1
3 months ago
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Contingency Inverts Mammalian Herbivore Evolution in Australia
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709684v1
3 months ago
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Anthropocentrism as a source of sampling bias in the fossil record.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709576v1
3 months ago
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Fossil-based analyses of clades' diversification patterns require taxonomic expertise and appropriate methodology
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708174v1
3 months ago
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No global collapse of food webs across the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.24.707709v1
3 months ago
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Neotaphonomic characteristics of vertebrate site formation in underwater caves
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705854v1
3 months ago
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Latitudinal dependence of stability trends in marine plankton in the Cenozoic
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.11.705334v1
3 months ago
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Surface area calculations of lamellar support respiratory function of trilobite exopodites
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702636v1
4 months ago
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The fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules can be taken at face value
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.702024v1
4 months ago
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Walrus Population-specific Marine Reservoir Offsets (ΔR) for Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates: Implications for Arctic Chronologies and Medieval Trade
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.698949v1
4 months ago
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Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701027v1
4 months ago
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Possible planktonic lifestyle of the Silurian trilobite Deiphon evaluated through 3D modelling
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698700v1
4 months ago
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Experimental evidence for a microbial origin of reduction spots in red beds
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699011v1
4 months ago
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Hallucigenia's diet illuminates the feeding ecology of Cambrian lobopodians
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.28.696761v1
5 months ago
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Homology of the dark cells of Paleozoic liverworts with the specialized oil body cells of modern liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696392v1
5 months ago
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A comprehensive identification protocol for postcranial bones of Southeast Asian Ruminantia. Part 1: Osteometry
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.695071v1
5 months ago
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Theoretical Morphology of Avian Wing Planform Reveals Variable Optimisation to Flight Style
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.692902v1
5 months ago
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Garamaudo bauciensis, a new freshwater Mosasauridae (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Provence, southeastern France
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693649v1
5 months ago
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The taxonomics of the diverse, lithe basal eutyrannosaur genera and species of late Maastrichtian western North America
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693447v1
5 months ago
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Reinterpretation of Bakiribu waridza from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693067v1
5 months ago
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Examples of adaptive peak tracking as found in the fossil record
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692820v1
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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New data on Quaternary lagomorphs from Lagoa Santa, State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687685v1
6 months ago
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A Quantitative Review of Biodiversity Trends during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686803v1
7 months ago
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Predator-prey scaling laws support a suspension-feeding lifestyle in Cambrian lobopodians
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686786v1
7 months ago
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Niche partitioning and limited mobility characterise Middle Pleistocene kangaroos from eastern Australia
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685489v1
7 months ago
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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
7 months ago
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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
7 months ago
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{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
8 months ago
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Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1
8 months ago
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Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678747v1
8 months ago
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Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678280v1
8 months ago
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A stromatoporoid-like sediment-agglutinating sponge from microbialites of Cambrian Stage 4
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678569v1
8 months ago
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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
8 months ago
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