Episode 3 - Macronaria (Summer 2025)

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This is the third 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 3 - Macronaria (Summer 2025).

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Macronaria news: 

• Pereira, P. V. L. G. C.; Bandeira, K. L. N.; Vidal, L. S.; Ribeiro, T. B.; Candeiro, C. R. A.; Bergqvist, L. P. (2024).  "A new sauropod species from north-western Brazil: biomechanics and the radiation of Titanosauria (Sauropoda: Somphospondyli)" .  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . zlae054 (4).  doi 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae054.
  
  

• Simón, M.E. and L. Salgado. 2023. A new gigantic titanosaurian sauropod fromthe early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica advance online publication. doi: 10.4202/app.01086.2023
  
  
• Filippi, L.S., R.D. Juárez Valieri, P.A. Gallina, A.H. Méndez, F.A. Gianechini, and A.C. Garrido. 2023. A rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaur andevidence of a Late Cretaceous faunal disturbance event in South-West Gondwana. Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105754
  
  
• Gabriel G. Barbosa, Julian C. G. Silva Junior and Felipe C. Montefeltro (2024). “Digital reconstruction of the skull of Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, a titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina.” MorphoMuseuM: e248. doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.248 https://morphomuseum.com/articles/view/248
  
  
• Federico Agnolin, Matías Motta, Jordi García Marsá, Mauro Aranciaga Rolando, Gerardo Alvarez Herrera, Nicolás Chimento, Sebastián Rozadilla, Federico Brizzon-Egli, Mauricio Cerroni, Karen Panzeri, Sergio Bogan, Silvio Casadio, Juliana Sterli, Sergio Miquel, Sergio Martínez, Leandro Perez, Diego Pol & Fernando Novas (2024)[2025]. “New fossiliferous locality from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) from northern Patagonia, with the description of a new titanosaur.” Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales nueva serie 26(2): 217-259 doi:10.22179/REVMACN.26.885 http://revista.macn.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevMus/article/view/885/715
  
  
• Han, F.; Yang, L.; Lou, F.; Sullivan, C.; Xu, X.; Qiu, W.; Liu, H.; Yu, J.; Wu, R.; Ke, Y.; Xu, M.; Hu, J.; Lu, P. (2024). "A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2293038. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038.
  
  
• Kasidit Eiamlaor, Suravech Suteethorn, Phornphen Chanthasit, Varavudh Suteethorn & Kantapon Suraprasit (2025). “Pneumatic structures of sauropod cervical vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous Sao Khua Formation of northeastern Thailand.” Cretaceous Research 106189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106189 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001120
  
  
• Mocho, P., F. Escaso, J.M. Gasulla, À. Galobart, B. Poza, A. Santos-Cubedo, J.L. Sanz, and F. Ortega. 2023. New sauropod dinosaur from the LowerCretaceous of Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary historyof Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad124
  
  
• Verónica Díez Díaz, Philip D. Mannion, Zoltán Csiki-Sava & Paul Upchurch (2025). “Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography.” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2441516 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516
  
  
• Zoran Marković, Miloš Milivojević, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, Simon Wills, Andrew A. van de Weerd, Wilma Wessels & Predrag Radović (2025). “First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo.” Cretaceous Research 106177. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001004
  
  
• Beeston, S.L., S.F. Poropat, P.D. Mannion, A.H. Pentland, M.J. Enchelmaier, T. Sloan, and D.A. Elliott. 2024. Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper CretaceousWinton Formation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and descriptionof new specimens. PeerJ 12: e17180. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17180
  
  
• Hocknull​, S.A., M. Wilkinson, R.A. Lawrence, V. Konstantinov, S. Mackenzie, and R. Mackenzie. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9: e11317. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11317
  
  
• André Saleiro & Emanuel Tschopp (2025). “New sauropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and their implications for sauropod dental evolution.” Papers in Palaeontology 11(1): e70001. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70001 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70001
  
  
• Ashu Khosla, Karen Chin, Omkar Verma, Spencer G. Lucas, Adrian P. Hunt, Dangpeng Xi, Debi Dutta & Habib Alimohammadian (2025). “Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological inferences from inclusions in vertebrate omnivore coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of central India.” Cretaceous Research 106110 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106110 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000333
  
  
• Stephen F. Poropat, Anne-Marie P. Tosolini, Samantha L. Beeston, Mackenzie J. Enchelmaier, Adele H. Pentland, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Karen Chin, Vera A. Korasidis, Phil R. Bell, Nathan J. Enriquez, Alex I. Holman, Luke M. Brosnan, Amy L. Elson, Madison Tripp, Alan G. Scarlett, Belinda Godel, Robert H.C. Madden, William D.A. Rickard, Joseph J. Bevitt, Travis R. Tischler, Tayla L.M. Croxford, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott & Kliti Grice (2025). “Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs.” Current Biology 35(11): 2597—2613. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.053Highlights https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00550-0
  
  
• Phil R Bell, D Cary Woodruff, Khoi Nguyen, Buuvei Mainbayar & Philip J Currie (2025). “Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(3): zlaf053. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf053 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/3/zlaf053/8205517
  
  
• Seongyeong Kim, Yuong-Nam Lee, Noe-Heon Kim & Yong Sik Gihm (2025). “Sauropod nesting sites on mid-channel bars: Taphonomic evidence of environmental adaptation in the Lower Cretaceous Sihwa Formation, Korea.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113147 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018225004328

• Letícia Lacerda, Kamila L.N. Bandeira, Bruno A. Navarro, Maria L.P. Bertolossi, Valéria Gallo, Rafael C. da Silva, Diogenes de A. Campos & Alexander W.A. Kellner (2025). “New lithostrotian specimens (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Mato Grosso State (Western Brazil) and comments about tail injuries in sauropod dinosaurs.” Journal of South American Earth Sciences 105336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105336 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981124005583

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