Märss (2025) revises jawless vertebrates from the Silurian (Wenlock) to Devonian (Lochkovian) strata of the Ufa Amphitheatre (Russia), and names a new family Tahulaspididae within Osteostraci.[3]
Sanchez-Sanchez, Sanisidro & Ferrón (2025) study the hydrodynamic performance of headshield processes of members of Pteraspidomorphi, reporting evidence of repeated, independent evolution of frontal, dorsal and lateral processes in response to functional demands.[4]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of members of Heterostraci is published by Randle, Keating & Sansom (2025).[5]
Schnetz et al. (2025) reconstruct the whole-body morphology of Anglaspis heintzi, and interpret its oral apparatus as indicative of adaptation to suspension feeding.[6]
Miyashita et al. (2025) provide new information on the anatomy of the head–trunk interface in Norselaspis glacialis, reporting evidence of presence of features previously known only in jawed vertebrates, and interpret their findings and indicative of evolution of sensory elaborations and increase of cardiac output and locomotory control in vertebrates before the appearance of the vertebrate jaw.[7]
Babcock (2025) designates the neotype for Macropetalichthys rapheidolabis and the lectotype for Agassichthys manni, redescribes the lectotype of Agassichthys sullivanti, and interprets A. manni, A. sullivanti and Pterichthys norwoodensis as junior synonyms of M. rapheidolabis.[14]
Pears et al. (2025) reconstruct the appendicular skeleton and musculature of arthrodires from the Devonian Gogo Formation (Australia), providing evidence of anatomical similarity of fins and musculature of the studied specimens.[15]
Redescription and a study on the affinities of Exutaspis megista is published by Xue et al. (2025).[16]
A diverse assemblage of cartilaginous fish fossils, including the youngest record of Phoebodus latus reported to date, is described from the Upper Devovian strata from the South Urals (Russia) by Ivanov et al. (2025).[37]
Li et al. (2025) report the discovery of a new fish assemblage dominated by cartilaginous fishes from the Permian (Changhsingian) Dalong Formation (Sichuan, China), including a probable neoselachian which might represent the earliest record of a cartilaginous fish with holaulacorhize-like root vascularization.[38]
A study on the development and evolution of tenaculum and its tooth-like denticles in chimaeras, as indicated by their development during ontogeny in extant spotted ratfish and by anatomy of Carboniferous Helodus simplex, is published by Cohen, Coates & Fraser (2025), who interpret the denticles of the tenaculum as more likely to be true teeth than modified dermal denticles.[39]
A well-preserved specimen of Chimaeropsis paradoxa, displaying soft parts, is described from the Tithonian strata in the Solnhofen area (Germany) by Duffin, Lauer & Lauer (2025).[41]
Duffin & Ward (2025) describe a quasi-complete but poorly preserved specimen of Elasmodectescf.willetti from the Cenomanian strata in Morocco, and identify the first fossil of a member of the genus Elasmodectes (a tooth plate) from the AlbianGault Clay of Folkestone (Kent, United Kingdom.[42]
Popov & Rogov (2025) describe chimaeroid fossil material from the Coniacian strata from the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia), providing evidence of presence of Edaphodon sp. and Harriotta sp. in the polar latitudes of eastern Siberia during the Late Cretaceous.[43]
A study on the histology and growth of dental plates of Ischyodus dolloi is published by Cerda, Gouiric Cavalli & Reguero (2025).[44]
Gayford & Jambura (2025) review evidence of different drivers of diversification of elasmobranchs throughout their evolutionary history.[45]
Greif et al. (2025) reconstruct feeding habits of Ctenacanthus concinnus, interpreting it as likely opportunistic feeder that used an array of feeding mechanisms.[47]
Eltink et al. (2025) report the first discovery of fossil material of Priohybodus arambourgi from the Upper Jurassic Aliança Formation (Brazil), and study tooth morphology of members of the species and its variation.[48]
Valentin et al. (2025) describe new fossil material of hybodont sharks from the Campanian strata in France, including the first record of Parvodus from the Late Cretaceous.[49]
Staggl et al. (2025) study diversity dynamics of neoselachians throughout the Mesozoic, providing evidence that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations had negative effect on neoselachian diversity.[50]
Benavides-Cabra et al. (2025) describe a new specimen of Protolamna ricaurtei from the AptianPaja Formation (Colombia), representing the first Early Cretaceous lamniform specimen preserved with both teeth and vertebrae, and providing evidence of large overall body size of this shark, but with proportionally small teeth.[52]
Amadori et al. (2025) reconstruct the lower crushing plate of Ptychodus decurrens on the basis of new fossil material from the Upper Cretaceous strata in Croatia.[53]
Shimada et al. (2025) argue that Otodus megalodon likely had slenderer body than the great white shark, and estimate that it might have reached about 24.3 m in body length.[54]
McCormack et al. (2025) study the trophic ecology of marine vertebrates from the Miocene (Burdigalian) Upper Marine Molasse sediments (Germany), and report evidence indicating that members of the genus Otodus did not feed exclusively on high trophic level prey, as well as evidence indicating that most of the studied specimens of Carcharodon hastalis fed on a lower trophic level prey than extant great white shark.[55]
Godfrey et al. (2025) describe teeth of Carcharodon hastalis embedded in cetacean vertebrae from the Miocene Calvert Formation (Maryland, United States), confirming that the studied shark fed on marine mammals.[56]
A study on the evolution of members of Squaliformes is published by Marion, Condamine & Guinot (2025), who find evidence of multiple colonizations of the deep sea that coincided with marine transgressions and were likely facilitated by the evolution of bioluminescence.[57]
Greenfield (2025) reidentify the large rostrum and four fragmentary rostral denticles from the Dakhla Formation originally attributed to Onchopristis sp. by Capasso et al. (2024)[58] as Sclerorhynchoidei indet. and Sclerorhynchus cf. leptodon, respectively,[59] while Capasso et al. (2025) supported their original identification and stated that any taxonomic determination without direct examination is unacceptable.[60]
Collareta & Mollen (2025) identify fossil material of Nebriimimus wardi from the Pliocene strata from Guardamar del Segura (Spain), representing the first record of this species outside Italy.[61]
A study on the evolution of the shark body form is published by Gayford et al. (2025), who interpret their findings as indicating that ancestral shark were living in benthic environments, as well as indicative of four independent cases of transition of sharks to the pelagic zone and related adaptations of their body form, likely linked to increased habitat availability during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.[62]
Assemat, Adnet & Martin (2025) study the trophic ecology of Maastrichtian elasmobranchs from Morocco, and report evidence of similarities of the studied assemblage with modern trophic food webs, as well as evidence of consumption of tetrapods by Squalicorax pristodontus.[63]
Cañete-Cañete et al. (2025) revise the fossil record of cartilaginous fishes from Chile from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene, finding no evidence of a significant turnover during the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition, and finding evidence of increase of diversity during the Eocene.[64]
Fossil material of diverse Miocene (Aquitanian) shark assemblage is described from the Khari Nadi Formation (Kachchh, India) by Chaskar et al. (2025).[65]
Evidence from the study of isolated teeth of living and fossil lamniform sharks, indicative of utility of geometric morphometrics for identification of isolated fossil teeth, is presented by Pagliuzzi et al. (2025).[66]
A member of Crossognathiformes belonging to the group Pachyrhizodontoidei. The type species is B. gracilis. (Named in 2024; final article published in 2025)
A member of the family Coccolepididae. The type species is "Coccolepis" australis Woodward (1895); genus also includes "Coccolepis" woodwardi Waldman (1971).
A possible basal member of Percomorpha. The type species is P. transylvanica; genus also includes "genus Acropomatidarum" bagassianus Nolf (2003) and "genus Haemulidarum" santonianus Nolf (2003).
A teleost of uncertain affinities. The type species is V. schwarzhansi; genus also includes V. stringeri.
Ray-finned fish research
A study on the development of teeth of a stem ray-finned fish specimen from the Devonian Gneudna Formation (Australia), providing evidence of similarities with the organization of lungfish tooth plates, is published by Chen (2025).[107]
Igielman et al. (2025) study the anatomy of lower jaws of Devonian ray-finned fishes, report evidence of overall similarity in similarity in gross shape and composition, but also report evidence of differences that might be related to a previously unrecognized functional diversity.[108]
Wilson, Mansky & Anderson (2025) describe occipital ossifications of two ray-finned fishes from the TournaisianHorton Bluff Formation (Nova Scotia, Canada), and report similarities of one of the studied specimens to early-diverging Devonian ray-finned fishes, as well as similarities of the other specimen to later, Carboniferous taxa, providing new information on diversity of ray-finned fishes from the Horton Bluff Formation.[109]
Giles, Kolmann & Friedman (2025) describe a specimen of Platysomus parvulus from the Carboniferous Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation (Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom) preserving evidence of presence of enlarged basibranchial tooth plates opposing an upper tooth field including small, pointed teeth on the surface of the vomer and longitudinal bands of teeth on the entopterygoids, representing the earliest record of a tongue-bite mechanism in a ray-finned fish reported to date.[110]
Capasso & Witzmann (2025) identify pycnodontomorph specimens with supernumerary rays of dorsal and anal fins, and interpret the studied anomalies as likely atavisms and as evidence supporting the interpretation of pycnodontomorph as basalneopterygians.[114]
Fossil material of cf.Coelodus sp., representing the first vertebrate material reported from the Santonian Jákó Marl Formation (Hungary), is described by Szabó, Haas & Cawley (2025).[116]
Gardner, Brinkman & Murray (2025) identify the holotype of Arotus hieroglyphus as a scale of a holostean fish.[117]
Ganoid scales probably representing the oldest fossil material of Lepisosteus reported from Southern Hemisphere are described from the Albian–Cenomanian Açu Formation (Brazil) by Costa et al. (2025).[118]
Gar remains representing the first record of this group from the Late Cretaceous of Japan are described from the Turonian Mifune Group by Ikegami, Yabumoto & Brito (2025).[119]
A study on the scale histology of Pachycormus is published by Maxwell & Cooper (2025).[120]
Ebert & Kölbl-Ebert (2025) report the discovery of specimens of Tharsis from the Upper Jurassic strata of the Plattenkalk basins of Eichstätt or Solnhofen Basin (Germany) found with belemnites lodged in their mouth and gill apparatus, and interpret the studied specimens as sucking remnants of belemnite soft tissue of algal or bacterial overgrowth and accidentally sucking belemnites into their mouth, resulting in suffocation.[122]
Serafini et al. (2025) identify a plethodid rostrum from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) strata from northern Italy, preservign evidence of presence of cranial and dental traits convergent with those of extant billfishes.[125]
A study on fossil melanin in an eye of a probable specimen of Dastilbe crandalli from the Crato Formation (Brazil), providing evidence of high density but low diversity of melanosomes from the retinal pigment epithelium which might be indicative of limited visual capabilities of the studied fish, is published by Prado et al. (2025).[126]
Přikryl et al. (2025) describe fossil material of Luciobarbus graellsii from the Pliocene strata from the Camp dels Ninots site (Spain), and interpret the studied fossils as indicating that the species was able to adapt to environmental changes from the warmest period of the Pliocene to the coldest period of the Pleistocene.[128]
Murray, Brinkman & Krause (2025) identify fossil material of at least three acanthomorph (probably percomorph) taxa from the Maastrichtian strata in the Mahajanga Basin (Madagascar), interpreted as likely evidence of a single invasion of Madagascan fresh waters during the Cretaceous.[129]
Carnevale & Bannikov (2025) redescribe Protorhamphosus parvulus, and confirm its placement within Syngnathoidei and are unable to determine its exact phylogenetic affinities within this group.[130]
Schwarzhans & Bannikov (2025) report the first discovery of a specimen of Pinichthys shirvanensis from the Miocene strata of the North Shirvanskaya Formation (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) preserved with an otolith, and transfer the otolith-based taxon "Stromateus" steurbauti Schwarzhans (1994) to the genus Pinichthys.[131]
Collareta et al. (2025) report the discovery of fused dentaries of an ocean sunfish from the Lower Pliocene strata of the Siena-Radicofani Basin (Italy), representing the first finding of fossil material of a member of this group in post-Miocene strata outside North America.[135]
Dalla Vecchia et al. (2025) report the discovery of a new assemblage of Late Cretaceous (possibly Campanian-Maastrichtian) fishes from the Friuli Carbonate Platform (Italy), dominated by pycnodontiforms and basal non-acanthomorph teleosts.[137]
Dubikovska et al. (2025) study the composition of the Miocene fish assemblage from the Mykolaiv Beds (Ukraine), and report the first discovery of fossil material of Acanthurus haueri, Oligodiodon sp. and indeterminate diodontids and tetraodontiforms of uncertain familiar placement from the Forecarpathian Basin.[138]
Evidence of changes of diversity of ray-finned fishes from the south of Eastern Europe (Moldova, Russia and Ukraine) from the late Miocene to the late Pleistocene is presented by Barkaszi & Kovalchuk (2025).[139]
Brinkman et al (2025) document the paleoichthyofauna of the early Maastrichtian-aged Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, including the descriptions of new genera (Nunikuluk, Archaeosiilik, Sivulliusalmo), the first documentation of several previously-described taxa (Oldmanesox, Horseshoeichthys) within the formation, and the oldest known fossil record of Cypriniformes.[71]
Melendez-Vazquez et al. (2025) link the evolution of endothermy in ray-finned fishes with evolution of large body size, adaptations to distinct swimming modes, and interactions with cetaceans during the Eocene-Miocene.[140]
A study on changes of diversity of bony fishes in Chile from the Neogene to the present is published by Oyanadel-Urbina et al. (2025).[141]
Babcock (2025) revises the type specimens of Onychodus sigmoides and O. hopkinsi, and interprets the latter taxon as a junior synonym of the former one.[144]
Review of the completeness of the fossil record of coelacanths is published by Yuan, Cavin & Song (2025).[145]
Cui et al. (2025) provide new information on the anatomy of Styloichthys changae, and study the evolution of cosmine in lobe-finned fishes.[146]
Ferrante & Cavin (2025) study the phylogenetic relationships of extant and fossil members of Actinistia, and name a new family Axeliidae and new subfamilies Diplurinae and Mawsoniinae.[147]
Quinn et al. (2025) revise the coelacanth fossil material from the Rhaetian strata in the United Kingdom.[148]
Fossil material of an indeterminate latimeriid, representing the first record of the family from the Lower Jurassic strata in Germany, is described from the ToarcianPosidonia Shale by Cooper (2025).[149]
Barbosa et al. (2025) describe a juvenile specimen of Axelrodichthys araripensis from the Lower Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (Brazil), and interpret the studied coelacanth as likely to be a marine fish that bred in shallow waters.[150]
Evidence from the study of mechanical performance of lungfish mandibles from the Devonian Gogo Formation (Australia), indicating that mandible morphology and dentition type both had impact on stress and strain distribution during biting, is presented by Bland et al. (2025), who interpret their findings as consistent with niche specialization of the studied lungfishes.[151]
Szrek et al. (2025) describe lungfish traces from the Devonian (Emsian) strata from the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Poland), including traces of the snout that anchored in the sediment to create leverage for lifting the body while the fish moved through shallow water or across exposed sediment, and name new ichnotaxa Reptanichnus acutori and Broomichnium ujazdensis.[152]
A lungfish tooth plate with morphology similar to that of Carboniferous sagenodontids is described from the Devonian (Famennian) Lemgaïrinat Formation (Morocco) by El Fassi El Fehri et al. (2025).[153]
Casal et al. (2025) describe a tooth plate of cf.Metaceratodus kaopen from the Upper Cretaceous Lago Colhué Huapí Formation (Argentina), expanding known geographic distribution of this taxon in South America, and interpret the studied specimen as living in environment with warm climate with dry periods.[155]
Batt et al. (2025) report the discovery of new rhizodontid fossil material from the TournaisianBallagan Formation (Scotland, United Kingdom), representing one of the earliest and most complete Carboniferous rhizodontids reported to date.[156]
Redescription and a study on the affinities of Eusthenodon wangsjoi is published by Downs (2025).[157]
General research
Haridy et al. (2025) identify purported early vertebrate Anatolepis as an arthropod, interpret its purported dentine tubules as sensory structures similar to those present in Cambrian aglaspidids and modern arthropods, and determine the oldest known fossil evidence of vertebrate dental tissues to be middle Ordovician in age.[158]
Troyer et al. (2025) study the evolution of lower jaws in Silurian and Devonian bony fishes, reporting evidence of high rates of diversification in lungfishes and coelacanths, and evidence of slow rates of evolution and low functional diversity of jaws in ray-finned fishes and tetrapodomorphs.[159]
Llewelyn et al. (2025) compare fish trait diversity in Devonian communities from the Gogo Formation, Canowindra fish beds in the Mandagery Formation (Australia) and Miguasha (Escuminac Formation; Canada) and in six modern fish communities, and find evidence indicating that Devonian communities were less functionally rich than their modern analogues, evidence of greater trait differentiation and lower functional redundancy among fish in Devonian communities compared to modern ones, and evidence that the Canowindra community was distinct from other Devonian communities as well as from modern fish communities.[160]
Ivanov & Hu (2025) describe fossil material of new fish assemblages (including diverse cartilaginous fishes) from the Carboniferous–lower Permian strata of the Naqing, Narao, and Shanglong deep-water sections (Guizhou, China) and from the Carboniferous (Serpukhovian–Bashkirian) strata of the Sholaksay section (Kazakhstan). [161]
Andrews, Shirley & Figueroa (2025) report the discovery of a new, diverse fish assemblage from the Carboniferous (Mississippian) Marshall Sandstone (Michigan, United States).[163]
Hodnett et al. (2025) study the composition of Permian fish assemblages from the Phosphoria, Park City and Shedhorn formations (Wyoming, United States), providing evidence of similarities with the assemblage from the Kaibab Formation in Arizona.[164]
Swimming trails of fishes with diverse morphologies or swimming behaviors are described from the Permian Salagou Formation (France) by Moreau et al. (2025).[165]
A study on the trophic relationships of fishes from the Romualdo Formation (Brazil), as indicated by mercury concentrations in their fossil remains, is published by Antonietto et al. (2025).[166]
Pokorný et al. (2025) describe trace fossils produced during death struggle of fishes from the Upper Cretaceous marine sediments in Lebanon, and name new ichnotaxa Pinnichnus haqilensis and P. emmae.[167]
Evidence from the study of the fossil record of fishes from Austria, indicative of increase of elasmobranch abundance and decrease of ray-finned fish density in the Tethys Ocean in the aftermath of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, is presented by Feichtinger et al. (2025).[168]
Deville de Periere et al. (2025) report the discovery of a diverse assemblage of marine fishes from the Eocene Dammam Formation (Saudi Arabia) .[169]
Sambou, Diaw & Adnet (2025) report the Discovery of a new marine fish assemblage from the Miocene–Pliocene deposits of the Saloum Formation (Senegal).[170]
Pallacks et al. (2025) study the fossil record of fish otoliths from the central western Aegean Sea, and report evidence indicating that a period of low oxygenation of mid-depth waters between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago was associated with near absence of mesopelagic fish.[171]
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