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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3) 2026


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Dinosaur “mummification”: Clay templating in a fluvial setting preserves three-dimensional integument renderings after carcass desiccation

Evan T. Saitta, Paul C. Sereno, Daniel Vidal, Maria Ciudad Real, Tyler M. Keillor, Lauren Bop, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Aidan Burdick, Viktor J. Radermacher, Thomas G. Kaye, Laure Dussubieux, Evan Maxey, Alexander S. Filatov, and Xinqi Chen

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 535-579 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01349.2026

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Articles

The Middle Miocene musteloid Trochotherium cyamoides and the evolution of bunodont dentition in stem mephitids

Diego Sánchez-Hernández, Andrés Fernández-Reyes, Miguel Parra, Serdar Mayda, M. Ángeles Álvarez-Sierra, and Alberto Valenciano

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 431-448 doi:10.4202/app.01347.2026

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Survivors of the extreme: fungus gnats from the PETM recovery interval of the Eocene Fur Formation in Denmark

Alicja Pełczyńska, Wiesław Krzemiński, and Agnieszka Soszyńska

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 449-459 doi:10.4202/app.01326.2026

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Palaeodiet and palaeoecology of a Late Pleistocene cave bear population in the Romanian Carpathians

Marius Robu, Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Alexandru Petculescu, Marius Kenesz, Luchiana-Maria Faur, William Pestle, Peter K. Swart, and Silviu Constantin

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 461-473 doi:10.4202/app.01291.2025

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The first Late Jurassic elcanid orthopteran from Poland and its palaeoecological implications

Monika Michalska and Błażej Błażejowski

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 475-483 doi:10.4202/app.01336.2026

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First record of Ichthyosaurus anningae outside the United Kingdom: new evidence from the Lower Jurassic of northern Spain

Marta S. Fernández, Laura Piñuela, Judy A. Massare, Lisandro Campos, Angel García-Pérez, and José Carlos García-Ramos

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 489-507 doi:10.4202/app.01323.2025

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Earliest occurrence of glyptosaurid lizards from Europe

Georgios L. Georgalis and Bastien Mennecart

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 509-518 doi:10.4202/app.01331.2026

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Revisiting the brain anatomy of the early Oligocene eutherian mammal Leptictis based on virtual endocasts

Carl C. Van Gent, John R. Wible, Stephen L. Brusatte, Lawiza Kamran, and Ornella C. Bertrand

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 519-534 doi:10.4202/app.01343.2026

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Review of the Jurassic Protipula

Wiesław Krzemiński, Katarzyna Kopeć, Jörg Ansorge, Maksymilian Syratt, and Ewa Krzemińska

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 581-587 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01376.2026

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A new species of halisaurine mosasaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt

Ahmed Ali Shaker, Nicholas Roy Longrich, Amin Strougo, Anhar Asan, Mohamed Kamel Mousa, and Gebely Abdel-Maksoud Abu El-Kheir

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 589-604 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01310.2025

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On the margins: exceptionally preserved small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from Silurian marginal marine strata of southern China

Kai Wang, Ben J. Slater, Xiaole Zhang, Peng Tang, Yi Wang, and Honghe Xu

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 605-617 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01342.2026

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Brief report

An enigmatic polyneopteran insect from the Cisuralian Shanxi Formation in Shuozhou, North China

Diying Huang, Wanyun Zhang, Yanzhe Fu, Wei Li, and André Nel

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 485-487 doi:10.4202/app.01355.2026

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Nomenclatorial note

Zofiaprion nom. nov., replacement name for Leptoprion Kielan-Jaworowska, 1966 (Annelida: Polychaeta)

Keith Edkins

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3), 2026: 508-508 doi:10.4202/app.01390.2026

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