Episode 6 - Small-bodied Ornithopods (Fall 2025)

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Episode 6 - Small-bodied Ornithopods (Fall 2025).

Small-bodied Ornithopod news: 

• Cooper, M.R. (1985). “A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus coetzeei Haughton, with a classification of the Ornithischia.” Annals of the South African Museum. 1985;95:281–317. https://archive.org/details/biostor-109745/
• Susannah C. R. Maidment and Paul M. Barrett (2025). “Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA.” Royal Society Open Science 12(6):242195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242195. 
• Yunfeng Yang, James L. King & Xing Xu (2025). “A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China.” PeerJ 13:e19664. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj. 19664 https://peerj.com/articles/19664/
• Paul M. Barrett and Susannah C.R. Maidment (2025). “A Review of Nanosaurus agilis Marsh and Other Small-Bodied Morrison Formation “Ornithopods.” Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 66(1): 25-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.3374/014.066.0102 https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-66/issue-1/014.066.0102/A-Review-of-Nanosaurus-agilis-Marsh-and-Other-Small-Bodied/10.3374/014.066.0102.short
• Tykoski, R.S., D.L. Contreras, and C. Noto (2023). “The first small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Lewisville Formation (middle Cenomanian) of Texas.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2257238
• Filippo Bertozzo, Niu Kecheng, Nathan Vallée Gillette & Pascal Godefroit (2025). “Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China.” PLoS ONE 20(1): e0312519. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312519 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312519
• Haviv M. Avrahami, Peter J. Makovicky, Ryan T. Tucker, Lindsay E. Zanno. “A new semi-fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah.” The Anatomical Record, July, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25505
• Juan Maíllo, Jerome Hidalgo-Sanz, José Manuel Gasca, José Ignacio Canudo & Miguel Moreno-Azanza (2025). “Intraskeletal histovariability and skeletochronology in an ornithopod dinosaur from the Maestrazgo Basin (Teruel, Spain).” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14225 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14225
• Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Francisco J. Verdú, Maite Suñer & Alberto Cobos (2025). “Unravelling ornithopod diversity in the Late Jurassic coastal ecosystems of Eastern Iberia (Spain).” Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 529-546. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/28723 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28723
• Romain Pintore, Alexandra Houssaye & John R. Hutchinson (2025). “How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size.” Palaeontology 68(4): e70016. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.7001