Episode 5 - Allosauroidea (Summer 2025)

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Episode 5 - Allosauroidea (Summer 2025).

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Allosauroid news: 

• Chan-Gyu Yun (2024). “Evaluating the paleoecology of the Megaraptora (Dinosauria: Theropoda) through biomechanical approaches.” Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 39: xxx (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.29797 https://sepaleontologia.es/early-view-yun/
  
  

• Jorge O. Calvo, Juan D. Porfiri, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Fernando E. Novas, Domenica D. Dos Santos, Derek E. Wessel & Matthew C. Lamanna (2025). “Morphological and Phylogenetic Significance of the First Adult Humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous Theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998. Annals of Carnegie Museum 90(3): 161-181. doi: https://doi.org/10.2992/007.090.0301 https://bioone.org/journals/annals-of-carnegie-museum/volume-90/issue-3/007.090.0301/Morphological-and-Phylogenetic-Significance-of-the-First-Adult-Humerus-of/10.2992/007.090.0301.short
  
  
• Alexander O. Averianov & Hans-Dieter Sues (2024). “New evidence for the presence of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan.” Historical Biology (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2423675 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2423675
  
  
• Alexander O. Averianov, Ivan T. Kuzmin, Pavel P. Skutschas & Hans-Dieter Sues (2025). “First record of Carcharodontosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan.” Journal of Paleontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/first-record-of-carcharodontosauridae-dinosauria-theropoda-in-the-upper-cretaceous-khodzhakul-formation-of-uzbekistan/7068DD313B954E2DB7EC507F956EFE73
  
  
• Maximilian Kellermann, Elena Cuesta & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2025). “Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny.” PLoS ONE 20(1): e0311096 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311096 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311096
  
  
• Andrew Danison, Mathew Wedel, Daniel Barta, Holly Woodward, Holley Flora, Andrew Lee & Eric Snively (2024). “Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda).” Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12(1): 81-114 doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29404 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29404 
  
  
• André Burigo and Octávio Mateus (2025) [2024]. “Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) Revisited and Taxonomy of the Genus.” Diversity 17(1): 29 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010029 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/1/29
  
  
• Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Dantas, Fernando Escaso, Pedro Mocho & Francisco Ortega (2025). “Cranial osteology of a new specimen of Allosaurus Marsh, 1877 (Theropoda: Allosauridae) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and a specimen-level phylogenetic analysis of Allosaurus.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(1): zlaf029. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf029 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/1/zlaf029/8151024
  
  
• Taylor Oswald, Colin Boisvert, Domenic D'amore, and Brian Curtice (2025). “Here be Dragons”: Shed Teeth Potentially Indicate the Presence of Multiple Unidentified Allosauroids from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 50(2): 55-129. doi: https://doi.org/10.2181/036.050.0204 https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-the-arizona-nevada-academy-of-science/volume-50/issue-2/036.050.0204/Here-be-Dragons--Shed-Teeth-Potentially-Indicate-the-Presence/10.2181/036.050.0204.short
  
  
• Zou Y, Chen L, Wang T, Wang G, Zhang W, Zhang X, Wang Z, Wu X, You H. 2025. A new metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China. PeerJ 13:e19218 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19218

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Intro: Shelter Dog, and the Outro: Centipede.

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