Dinosaurs Lately - Sauropodomorphs (Winter 2025)

Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 7 - Sauropodomorphs (Winter 2025).

Sauropodomorph news: 

• Lísie V S Damke, Max C Langer, Átila A S Da-Rosa & Rodrigo T Müller (2024). “New specimens of Saturnalia tupiniquim (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha): insights into intraspecific variation, rostral anatomy, and skull size.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae156 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae156/7925713

• David M Lovelace, Aaron M Kufner, Adam J Fitch, Kristina Curry Rogers, Mark Schmitz, Darin M Schwartz, Amanda LeClair-Diaz, Lynette St.Clair, Joshua Mann, Reba Teran, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 203, Issue 1, January 2025, zlae153, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae153
  
  
• Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature 648, 634–639 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09634-3  
  
  
• Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, Patrick Asbach & Philip D. Mannion (2025). “New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70045
  
  
• Cecilia Apaldetti; Ricardo N. Martinez; Oscar A. Alcober & Diego Pol (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11)e26964. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626964A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.
  
  
• Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Cecilia Apaldetti, Ignacio A. Cerda, Diego Abelín, and Ricardo N. Martínez (2025). “Leyesaurus marayensis (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from Northwestern Argentina: an update.” Ameghiniana (advance online publication) doi: 10.5710/AMGH.11.12.2024.3622 https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/127
  
  
• Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst and Ursula B. Göhlich (2025). “Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies.” Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250325 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250325
  
  
• Sina F. J. Dupuis, Jordan Bestwick, Dennis M. Hansen, Esben Horn, Stacey Wiik, Rasmus Frederiksen, Robert Zboray, Kiarash Tajbakhsh, Ursina Bachmann, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). “Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology.” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
  
  
• Michael W. Maisch, Lirazel S. M. Maisch (2024).  Neubewertung von _"Plateosaurus" ornatus_ von Huene, 1908 - ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed?   Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg [Annual Report of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg] 180: 379–399
  
  
• Rémi Lefebvre, Chloé Aubry, Heinrich Mallison & Alexandra Houssaye (2025). “Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(4): zlaf077. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf077. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/4/zlaf077/8224426
  
  
• André O Fonseca, Fabiula P Bem & Rodrigo T Müller (2025). “Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaur wrist evolution.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(1): zlaf100 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf100 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/205/1/zlaf100/8248636
  
  
• Alessandro Lania, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). "Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 39 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6
  
  
• Xiang-Yuan Chen, Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130
  
  
• Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Yan-Chao Wang, Huan Xu, Jianbo Chen, Zhuo Feng, Xing Xu, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia.” Scientific Reports 15: 26749 doi:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12185-2
  
  
• Paul M Barrett & Kimberley EJ Chapelle (2024). “A brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series.” Palaeontologia africana. Palaeontologia africana 58: 97–131  ISSN 2410-4418 https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/ac85b6f0-23a8-4fa7-a1a2-878f3ee610ff
  
  
• Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, Dylan C. T. Rowe, Diane Scott & Robert R. Reisz (2025). "Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 44 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5
  
  
• Han, F., Y. Yu, S. Zhang, R. Zeng, X. Wang, H. Cai, T. Wu, Y. Wen, S. Cai, C. Li, R. Wu, Q. Zhao, and X. Xu. 2023. Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology. National Science Review advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad258
  
  
• Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang & Hai-Lu You (2024). “The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China.” PeerJ 12: e18629 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18629 https://peerj.com/articles/18629/

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Chinese Cafe , and the Outro: Death of a Dream.

December 25, 2025

 Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 7 - Sauropodomorphs (Winter 2025).

(stream it here)

Sauropodomorph news: 

• Lísie V S Damke, Max C Langer, Átila A S Da-Rosa & Rodrigo T Müller (2024). “New specimens of Saturnalia tupiniquim (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha): insights into intraspecific variation, rostral anatomy, and skull size.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae156 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae156/7925713

• David M Lovelace, Aaron M Kufner, Adam J Fitch, Kristina Curry Rogers, Mark Schmitz, Darin M Schwartz, Amanda LeClair-Diaz, Lynette St.Clair, Joshua Mann, Reba Teran, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 203, Issue 1, January 2025, zlae153, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae153
  
  
• Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature 648, 634–639 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09634-3  
  
  
• Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, Patrick Asbach & Philip D. Mannion (2025). “New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70045
  
  
• Cecilia Apaldetti; Ricardo N. Martinez; Oscar A. Alcober & Diego Pol (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11)e26964. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626964A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.
  
  
• Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Cecilia Apaldetti, Ignacio A. Cerda, Diego Abelín, and Ricardo N. Martínez (2025). “Leyesaurus marayensis (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from Northwestern Argentina: an update.” Ameghiniana (advance online publication) doi: 10.5710/AMGH.11.12.2024.3622 https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/127
  
  
• Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst and Ursula B. Göhlich (2025). “Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies.” Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250325 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250325
  
  
• Sina F. J. Dupuis, Jordan Bestwick, Dennis M. Hansen, Esben Horn, Stacey Wiik, Rasmus Frederiksen, Robert Zboray, Kiarash Tajbakhsh, Ursina Bachmann, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). “Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology.” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
  
  
• Michael W. Maisch, Lirazel S. M. Maisch (2024).  Neubewertung von _"Plateosaurus" ornatus_ von Huene, 1908 - ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed?   Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg [Annual Report of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg] 180: 379–399
  
  
• Rémi Lefebvre, Chloé Aubry, Heinrich Mallison & Alexandra Houssaye (2025). “Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(4): zlaf077. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf077. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/4/zlaf077/8224426
  
  
• André O Fonseca, Fabiula P Bem & Rodrigo T Müller (2025). “Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaur wrist evolution.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(1): zlaf100 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf100 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/205/1/zlaf100/8248636
  
  
• Alessandro Lania, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). "Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 39 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6
  
  
• Xiang-Yuan Chen, Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130
  
  
• Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Yan-Chao Wang, Huan Xu, Jianbo Chen, Zhuo Feng, Xing Xu, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia.” Scientific Reports 15: 26749 doi:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12185-2
  
  
• Paul M Barrett & Kimberley EJ Chapelle (2024). “A brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series.” Palaeontologia africana. Palaeontologia africana 58: 97–131  ISSN 2410-4418 https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/ac85b6f0-23a8-4fa7-a1a2-878f3ee610ff
  
  
• Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, Dylan C. T. Rowe, Diane Scott & Robert R. Reisz (2025). "Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 44 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5
  
  
• Han, F., Y. Yu, S. Zhang, R. Zeng, X. Wang, H. Cai, T. Wu, Y. Wen, S. Cai, C. Li, R. Wu, Q. Zhao, and X. Xu. 2023. Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology. National Science Review advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad258
  
  
• Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang & Hai-Lu You (2024). “The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China.” PeerJ 12: e18629 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18629 https://peerj.com/articles/18629/

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Chinese Cafe , and the Outro: Death of a Dream.

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