2025 in paleomammalogy
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This article records new taxa of fossil mammals of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2025, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of mammals that are scheduled to occur in the year 2025.
Euarchontoglires
[edit]Primates
[edit]General paleoanthropology
[edit]- Zanolli et al. (2025) study the anatomy and affinities of the Pleistocene hominin mandible SK 15 from Swartkrans Member 2, South Africa (the holotype of Telanthropus capensis), and interpret this specimen as belonging to a previously unrecognized species of Paranthropus, P. capensis.[1]
- Evidence from the study of starch grains found on basalt tools from the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site (Israel), indicating that Middle Pleistocene hominins from the site processed diverse plants, is preserved by Ahituv et al. (2025).[2]
Laurasiatherians
[edit]Artiodactyls
[edit]Cetaceans
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Cedillo-Avila, González-Barba & Solis-Añorve |
A member of the family Eomysticetidae. The type species is C. convexus. |
Other artiodactyls
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Gen. et sp. nov |
In press |
Pickford & Gawad |
An anthracothere. Genus includes new species A. grandis. |
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Gen. et comb. nov |
In press |
Pickford & Gawad |
Miocene |
An anthracothere. Genus includes "Afromeryx" palustris Miller et al. (2014). |
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Gen. et comb. nov |
In press |
Pickford & Gawad |
Miocene |
An anthracothere. Genus includes "Brachyodus" mogharensis Pickford (1991). |
General mammalian research
[edit]- Gelabert et al. (2025) study sedimentary ancient DNA from the El Mirón Cave (Spain), reporting evidence of presence of 28 taxa (humans, 21 herbivores and 6 carnivores), evidence of longer survival of leopards and hyenas in the Iberian Peninsula than indicated by fossil record, and evidence of the presence of a stable human population in the region of the cave during and after the Last Glacial Maximum.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Zanolli, C.; Hublin, J.-J.; Kullmer, O.; Schrenk, F.; Kgasi, L.; Tawane, M.; Xing, S. (2025). "Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization". Journal of Human Evolution. 200. 103634. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103634.
- ^ Ahituv, H.; Henry, A. G.; Melamed, Y.; Goren-Inbar, N.; Bakels, C.; Shumilovskikh, L.; Cabanes, D.; Stone, J. R.; Rowe, W. F.; Alperson-Afil, N. (2025). "Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122 (3). e2418661121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2418661121.
- ^ Cedillo-Avila, C.; González-Barba, G.; Solis-Añorve, A. (2025). "First record of an Eomysticetidae from the Late Oligocene at the Pilon locality, San Gregorio Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico". Palaeontologia Electronica. 28 (1). 28.1.a1. doi:10.26879/1390.
- ^ a b c Pickford, M.; Gawad, M. A. (2025). "Revision of Large Anthracotheres from the Early Miocene of Moghara, Egypt". Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe A: Geologie und Paläontologie. 54: 1–96. ISBN 978-3-89937-300-4.
- ^ Gelabert, P.; Oberreiter, V.; Straus, L. G.; González Morales, M. R.; Sawyer, S.; Marín-Arroyo, A. B.; Geiling, J. M.; Exler, F.; Brueck, F.; Franz, S.; Tenorio Cano, F.; Szedlacsek, S.; Zelger, E.; Hämmerle, M.; Zagorc, B.; Llanos-Lizcano, A.; Cheronet, O.; Tejero, J.-M.; Rattei, T.; Kraemer, S. M.; Pinhasi, R. (2025). "A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain". Nature Communications. 16 (1). 107. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-55740-7.