Fossil Studies MDPI

10/10/2025

🦴 Must-read study! 🚨

📖 An Equus-Dominated Middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Vertebrate Fauna from Northcentral Florida, USA

This new research documents a rare fossil assemblage from the Steinhatchee River 2A site, with ~75% of remains belonging to Equus. The site provides key insights into Pleistocene ecosystems and helps fill a gap in Florida’s fossil record.

🔍 Read the full study here: https://brnw.ch/21wWvSY

07/10/2025

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📖 The Diet of Metriorhynchus (Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae): Additional Discoveries and Paleoecological Implications

This fascinating research sheds new light on the feeding habits and ecological role of Metriorhynchus, offering valuable insights into ancient marine ecosystems.

🔍 Read the full study here: https://brnw.ch/21wWpJZ

02/10/2025

Must-read study for dinosaur enthusiasts and paleontology researchers! 🚨

📖 Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy (North-Western France) †

Explore this fascinating discovery and its implications for our understanding of dinosaur evolution.

🔍 Read more here: https://brnw.ch/21wWi3t

30/09/2025

Must-read study! 🚨

📖 Evaluation of the Preservation of Chitinozoans in a Case Study of the Katian–Hirnantian Succession, Eastern Precordillera of Argentina

🔍 Explore how this research sheds light on fossil preservation during a critical geological period.

🔗 Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wWdBj

The poor preservation state of chitinozoans recovered from samples of the La Pola (Sandbian–Katian) and Don Braulio formations (Hirnantian-Llandovery), after being processed with standard methods, required significant modifications in processing. The sodium hexametaphosphate technique was used to ...

29/09/2025

🚨 Must-read study!

📖 When Abnormality Becomes Perennial in a Reduced Population: The Case of Altudostephanus longicostis gen. et sp. nov. (Valanginian Ammonites, South-Eastern France)

Discover fascinating insights into ammonite evolution and population dynamics from the Valanginian period.

🔍 Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wWbY3

29/09/2025

📢 New Special Issue in is now open for submissions!

"New Directions in the Study of Vertebrate Trace Fossils"
Edited by Dr. Adrian P. Hunt, Prof. Dr. Spencer G. Lucas, and Dr. Lida Xing

We invite researchers to submit original manuscripts exploring ichnofossils, trace fossils, and innovative methodologies shaping the future of ichnology.

🗓️ Submission deadline: 28 February 2026

Submit your work here: https://brnw.ch/21wWbjE

26/09/2025

📢New Publication in

📖 A Review of Onychophoran Phylogenic Studies Reveals Resilience of Soil Ecosystems to the Chicxulub Impact Event
✍️ By Julián Monge-Nájera and Yostin Añino

🌱 This study explores how onychophorans (velvet worms) provide insight into the recovery and resilience of soil ecosystems following the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub impact.

🔗 Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wW7gI

Onychophora (velvet worms) are rare, soil-dwelling invertebrates with a fragile body structure that limits their fossil record. Their current distribution across the Neotropics has long been shaped by vicariance and dispersal events. Here, we evaluate the hypothesis that the Cretaceous–Paleogene (...

25/09/2025

🚨 Must-read paleontology study!

📖 A Prognathodontin Mosasaur from the Maastrichtian of the Dakhla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt

A remarkable find from Egypt’s Western Desert sheds light on late Cretaceous marine reptiles.

🔗 Read more: https://brnw.ch/21wW5FW

24/09/2025

🌍✨ Join us for the "MDPI International Geodiversity Day Webinar 2025"!

Discover the fascinating world of geodiversity and its importance in our natural environment. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or enthusiast, this webinar is a great opportunity to learn and connect.

📅 Date: October 6, 2025
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM (Bucharest Time)

🔗 https://brnw.ch/21wW3sg

Don’t miss out — mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details!

23/09/2025

🚨 Must-read study alert! 🚨

Discover Stelladens mysteriosus — a strange new mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Morocco. This fascinating find sheds light on prehistoric marine reptiles and their evolution.

✍️ Authored by Nicholas R. Longrich, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, and Nathalie Bardet.

🔍 Dive into the full article here:https://brnw.ch/21wW0Jz

Mosasaurids, a clade of specialized marine squamates, saw a major adaptive radiation in the Late Cretaceous, evolving a wide range of body sizes, shapes, and specialized tooth morphologies. The most diverse known mosasaurid faunas come from the late Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco. Here, we repo...

22/09/2025

🎉 We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Ashu Khosla to the Fossil Studies Editorial Board!

Prof. Dr. Khosla is from the Department of Geology at Panjab University, India, and brings extensive expertise in: geology-palaeontology (vertebrate palaeontology, micropalaeontology); palaeobiogeography; palaeoenvironments and sedimentology.

We look forward to his valuable contributions to the journal

28/08/2025

📢New Publication in

📖 Unraveling the Strange Case of the First Canarian Land Fauna (Lower Pliocene)

✍️by Antonio Sánchez-Marco, Romain Amiot, Delphine Angst, Salvador Bailon, Juan Francisco Betancort, Eric Buffetaut, Emma García-Castellano, Lourdes Guillén-Vargas, Nicolas Lazzerini, Christophe Lécuyer, Alejandro Lomoschitz, Luis Felipe López-Jurado, Àngel H. Luján, María Antonia Perera-Betancort, Manuel J. Salesa, Albert G. Sellés and Gema Siliceo

Discover the fascinating origins of the Canarian land fauna from the Lower Pliocene in this comprehensive study. Dive into new fossil findings and expert insights shedding light on the Canary Islands’ ancient ecosystems.

🔗Read the full study: https://brnw.ch/21wVgdY