Dinosaurs Lately - Abelisauroidea (Summer 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.

This is the first of these interstitial episodes I’ve created – 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 1 - Abelisauroidea (Summer 2025).

Abelisauroid news: 

• Pol, D., M.A. Baiano, D. Černý, F.E. Novas, I.A. Cerda, and M. Pittman. 2024. “A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the end Cretaceous of Patagonia and evolutionary rates among the Ceratosauria.” Cladistics advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/cla.12583
• Elisabete Malafaia, Fernando Escaso, Rodolfo A. Coria, Adán Pérez-García & Francisco Ortega (2024). “Theropod teeth from the UpperCretaceous of central Spain: assessing the paleobiogeographic history ofEuropean abelisaurids.” Cretaceous Research 106072 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106072 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124002453
• Theo B. Ribeiro, Luiz Felipe Vecchietti, Carlos R. A. Candeiro, Juan I. Canale, Lílian P. Bergqvist, Paulo M. Brito & Paulo V. L. G. C. Pereira (2025). “Overabundance of abelisaurid teeth in the Açu Formation(Albian-Cenomanian), Potiguar Basin, Northeastern Brazil: morphometric,cladistic and machine learning approaches.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2487366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2487366 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2487366
• Enzo E. Seculi Pereyra, Juan Vrdoljak, Martín D. Ezcurra, Javier González-Dionis, Carolina Paschetta & Ariel H. Méndez (2025). “Morphologyof the maxilla informs about the type of predation strategy in the evolution ofAbelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda).” Scientific Reports 15: 7857. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87289-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-87289-w
• Cau, A. and Paterna, A. (2025). “Beyond the Stromer’sRiddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics ofthe giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa.” Italian Journal of Geosciences. Volume: 144 (2025) f.2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2025.10
• Christophe Hendrickx, Mauricio A Cerroni, Federico L Agnolín, Santiago Catalano, Cátia F Ribeiro & Rafael Delcourt (2024). “Osteology, relationship, and feeding ecology of the theropod dinosaurNoasaurus leali, from the Late Cretaceous of North-Western Argentina.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae150 doi:  https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae150 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae150/7926352
• Averianov, A.O., P.P. Skutschas, A.A. Atuchin, D.A. Slobodin, O.A. Feofanova, and O.N. Vladimirova. 2024. “The last ceratosaur of Asia: a new noasaurid from the Early Cretaceous Great Siberian Refugium.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20240537. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0537 
• ThePaleoFreak (2025). “Beyond Cau's riddle.” July 14, 2025. https://thepaleofreak.substack.com/ https://thepaleofreak.substack.com/p/beyond-the-caus-riddle

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