Lab Publication List

Aguirre-Fernández G, Barbieri C, Jett SC, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Cámara-Leret R, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language. Evolutionary Human Sciences 7:e26 [doi: 10.1017/ehs.2025.10005].

Alfonso-Rojas AF, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Sánchez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Head JJ (2025) An early origin of gigantism in anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) revealed by the fossil record. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:e2572967 [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2025.2572967].

Antonosyan M, Paladugu R, Ziegler M, Carneiro GP, Chim E, Strauss AM, Mendes D, Lemos R, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Furquim LP, Schirmer S, Ilgner J, Volke D, Roberts P (2025) Peptide mass fingerprinting of South American xenarthrans: a new resource for zooarcheology and palaeontology. Journal of Proteome Research [doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00636].

Cadena E-A, Guevara-Serrano LJ, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2025) Direct evidence of shark-bony fish interactions in a Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) marine ecosystem of northwestern Gondwana. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 168:105854 [doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105854].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Reyes-Céspedes AE, Vargas D, Jaimes A, Becerra Valdivia L, Wiesenberg GLB, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) Ancient proboscidean-ivory artifacts from Northwestern Venezuela. PaleoAmerica:1-6 [doi: 10.1080/20555563.2025.2466363].

Carrillo-Briceño JD, Stössel I, Kindlimann R, Klug C (2025) A new hybodontiform shark (Strophodus Agassiz, 1838) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144 (1):36 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00376-3].

Georgalis GL, Sulej T, Belvedere M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, eds. (2025) Book of Abstracts of the XXII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 30 June–5 July 2025, Kraków, Poland. Palaeovertebrata [doi: 10.18563/pv.eavp2025].

Jorgewich-Cohen G, Scholte Lubberink N, Wheatley M, Leroux M, Ferrara CR, Gaspar LP, Praschag P, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) Ontogenetic changes in turtle vocal behavior. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 24 (1):46-55 [doi: 10.2744/CCB-1659.1].

Le Verger K, Letenneur C, Fischer V, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Ladevèze S, Solé F (2025) Cranial osteology of Cynodictis (Amphicyonidae), the oldest European carnivoran. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144 (1):15 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00350-z].

Le Verger K, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) The evolution and biological role of the neomorphic ossification of the nasal cartilage in Neosclerocalyptini glyptodonts. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:e2565478 [doi: 10.1080/02724634.2025.2565478].

Louppe V, Le Verger K, Clavel J, Ferreira GS, Kyriakouli C, Stanley EL, Watt EC, Bardua C, Pérez-Ben C, Fröbisch NB, Bothe V, Boistel R, Daghfous G, Goswami A, Fabre A-C (2025) Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata. Functional Ecology:16 [doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.70044].

Lovász L, Sommer-Trembo C, Barth JMI, Scasta JD, Grancharova-Hill R, Lemoine RT, Kerekes V, Merckling L, Bouskila A, Svenning J-C, Fages A (2025) Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective. Biological Reviews 100 (1):407-427 [doi: 10.1111/brv.13146].

Martinez Q, Molinier C, Barraza-Soltero IK, Berger E, Le Verger K, Fabre A-C, Billet G, Fernandez V, Ferreira GS, van de Kamp T, Hamann E, Zuber M, Portela Miguez R, Hautier L, Amson E (2025) The olfactory bulb endocast as a proxy for mammalian olfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (50):e2510575122 [doi: 10.1073/pnas.2510575122].

Menéndez LP, Rios C, Acosta Morano C, Novellino P, Schmelzle T, Aguirre-Fernández G, Breidenstein A, Barquera R, Schuenemann VJ, Stafford TW, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Barbieri C (2025) A human skeleton from Última Esperanza, South-West Patagonia, Chile: Osteobiography, morphometric, and genetic analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 65:105237 [doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105237].

Monclús-Gonzalo O, Pal S, Püschel TA, Urciuoli A, Vinuesa V, Robles JM, Almécija S, Alba DM (2025) A dryopithecine talus from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): morphometric affinities and evolutionary implications for hominoid locomotion. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186 (4):e70043 [doi: 10.1002/ajpa.70043].

Pandolfi L, Arranz SG, Almécija S, Galindo J, Luján ÀH, Pina M, Urciuoli A, Casanovas-Vilar I, Alba DM (2025) Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144(1): 3 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-024-00342-5].

Partarrieu D, Pinto L, García C, de los Arcos S, González M, Solís-Pichardo G, Arrieta-García G, Hernández-Treviño T, Schaaf P, Fonseca F, Mourgues FA, Oyanadel-Urbina P, Chávez-Hoffmeister M, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Flores-Aqueveque V, Zambrano-Lobos P, Ortega C, Rivadeneira MM (2025) Plio–Pleistocene water cooling in the southeastern Pacific Ocean: Insights from paleoecology, marine sedimentary facies analysis, and Sr isotope stratigraphy at Coquimbo (∼30ºS), Chile. Journal of Palaeogeography 14 (4):100269 [doi: 10.1016/j.jop.2025.100269].

Rangel de Lázaro G, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) Digitising the past, preserving the future: creating a digital collection of pre-Columbian crania excavated one hundred-twenty-one years ago by Alfredo Jahn in Lake Valencia, Venezuela. STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research 11 (1):e2488083 [doi: 10.1080/20548923.2025.2488083].

Roese-Miron L, Abdala F, Pretto FA, Müller T, Michelotti da Costa I, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Kerber L (2025) Skull anatomy and endocranial casts of Siriusgnathus niemeyerorum (Cynodontia: Cynognathia) from the Late Triassic of Brazil: implications for the evolution of traversodontids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205 (1) [doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf107].

Sánchez-Villagra MR, Bertazoni C, Vander Velden F (2025) On the lack of domestic dogs in Pre-Columbian Lowland Amazonia and their deep history of entanglements with humans in South America. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 30:e70006 [doi: 10.1111/jlca.70006].

Schmökel H, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) Disease in an evolutionary context: a study of stifle joint pathology among extinct and extant canids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 32 (27) [doi: 10.1007/s10914-025-09768-1].

Sherratt E, Böhmer C, Callou C, Nelson TJ, Pillai R, Ruf I, Sanger TJ, Schaar J, Le Verger K, Kraatz B, Geiger M (2025) From wild to domestic and in between: how domestication and feralization changed the morphology of rabbits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2050):20251150 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1150].

Smith CM, Hammond AS, Urciuoli A, Braga J, Beaudet A, Cazenave M, Laitman JT, Almécija S (2025) Divergent otolithic systems in the inner ear of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus. Journal of Human Evolution 199: 103624 [doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103624].

Urciuoli A, Diez-Valero J, Martínez I, Quam R, Keeling BA, Webb NM, Conde-Valverde M (2025) New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals. The Anatomical Record:1–22 [doi: 10.1002/ar.70081].

Urciuoli A, Martínez I, Quam R, Arsuaga JL, Keeling BA, Diez-Valero J, Conde-Valverde M (2025) Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade. Nature Communications 16 (1):972 [doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56155-8].

Vargas D, Le Verger K, Wiesenberg GLB, Carrillo-Briceño JD, von Büren C, Jaimes A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2025) A morphological, morphometric and geochemical characterization of the El Jobo projectile points – diversity and significance in early human populations across the Americas. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17:184 [doi: 10.1007/s12520-025-02296-2].