Dinosaur News Update: 16 November 2019
‘A scientific goldmine’: U of A paleontologists discover complete skeleton of small, carnivorous dino.
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Was a Giant ‘Shark Tooth’ Carnivore.
Skull remains of the dinosaur Saturnalia tupiniquim (Late Triassic, Brazil): With comments on the early evolution of sauropodomorph feeding behaviour.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221387
Neural canal ridges: A novel osteological correlate of post-cranial neurology in dinosaurs.
https://peerj.com/preprints/27967/
Skull remains of the dinosaur Saturnalia tupiniquim (Late Triassic, Brazil): With comments on the early evolution of sauropodomorph feeding behaviour.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221387
Studying bipedal dinosaur trackways using geometric morphometrics.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/980.pdf
A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209592731930338X
The Frontoparietal Fossa and Dorsotemporal Fenestra of Archosaurs and Their Significance for Interpretations of Vascular and Muscular Anatomy in Dinosaurs.
A New Hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Marine Deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48607-1
Killer claws or climbing crampons?
https://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2019/08/30/killer-claws-or-climbing-crampons/
Under the feet of sauropods: A trampled coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Switzerland?
Testing the function of dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) ‘sickle claws’ through musculoskeletal modelling and optimization.
https://peerj.com/articles/7577/
New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191057
Jurassic Park and the dinosaur explosion, or why your kids know more about dinos than you.
Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6698140/
Temporal range extension and evolution of the chasmosaurine ceratopsid ‘Vagaceratops’ irvinensis (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29356
North Africa’s first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X19302217
Scientists unveil Japan’s largest dinosaur yet, a herbivore that lumbered along coasts of Hokkaido.
Rise of dinosaurs linked to increasing oxygen levels.
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-dinosaurs-linked-oxygen.html
Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2019.1564757?journalCode=ujvp20
Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography.
https://peerj.com/articles/7217/
The Formation of a Marine Bonebed at the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park – Bearpaw Transition of West – Central Saskatchewan, Canada.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00209/full
A Problematic Tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Skeleton and Its Implications for Tyrannosaurid Diversity in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24199
Spinosaurid theropod teeth from the Red Beds of the Khok Kruat Formation (Early Cretaceous) in Northeastern Thailand.
https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/181194
Undiscovered dinosaurs: We are entering the golden era of fossil finds.
Osteohistology of the silesaurid Sacisaurus agudoensis from southern Brazil (Late Triassic) and implications for growth in early dinosaurs.
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v91s2/0001-3765-aabc-91-s2-e20180643.pdf
A new desert-dwelling dinosaur (Theropoda, Noasaurinae) from the Cretaceous of south Brazil.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45306-9
Theropod teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Ilek Formation of Western Siberia, Russia.
https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=344
New plesiosaurid material from the Maastrichtian type area, the Netherlands.
Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?
Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/46205
140 Million Years Ago, a Bird-Like Dinosaur Swallowed a Lizard Whole. Here’s Why Its Final Meal Is Exciting Researchers.
Strange new species of duck-billed dinosaur identified.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-strange-species-duck-billed-dinosaur.html
First Documented Pathologies in Tenontosaurus tilletti with Comments on Infection in Non-Avian Dinosaurs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45101-6
Rare Dinosaur Fossils Reveal New Details of Prosaurolophus Display Features.