Dinosaur News Update: 16 September 2019
A new alvarezsaurian theropod from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of western China.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48148-7
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
Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus.
https://peerj.com/articles/7240/
Psittacosaurus amitabha, a new species of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Ondai Sayr locality, central Mongolia. (American Museum novitates, no. 3932).
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6953
Thyreophoran vertebrae from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of the Vaches Noires cliffs (Normandy, France), with remarks on the dinosaur assemblage from the Vaches Noires.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S163106831930096X
Palaeoepidemiology in extinct vertebrate populations: factors influencing skeletal health in Jurassic marine reptiles.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.190264
Mission Jurassic: Searching for Dinosaur Bones.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nxVbFidDbs/mission-jurassic
New dinosaur found hiding in plain sight in South African museum.
Sex appeal helped dinosaurs take flight.
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-sex-appeal-dinosaurs-flight.html
An unusual ‘shovel-billed’ dinosaur with trophic specializations from the early Campanian of Trans-Pecos Texas, and the ancestral hadrosaurian crest.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2019.1625078?af=R
Appendicular skeleton of Protoceratops andrewsi (Dinosauria, Ornithischia): comparative morphology, ontogenetic changes, and the implications for non-ceratopsid ceratopsian locomotion.
https://peerj.com/articles/7324/
Scientists in Switzerland discover a new dinosaur species.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/12/europe/new-dinosaur-species-switzerland-scn-trnd/index.html
Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-small-horned-dinosaur-china-triceratops.html
Are dinosaur fossils ‘minerals’? The Montana Supreme Court will decide high stakes case.
New species of lizard found in stomach of Cretaceous microraptor.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-species-lizard-stomach-cretaceous-microraptor.html
Discovery of Raptor-Like Dinosaur Adds a New Wrinkle to the Origin of Birds.
Skeletal completeness of the non?avian theropod dinosaur fossil record.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12436
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.