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: