Episode 6 - Small-bodied Ornithopods (Fall 2025)

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

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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.70016 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70016

• Juan García-Palou, Erik Isasmendi, and Angélica Torices (2025). “An analysis of the first fossil remains of styracosternan ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain) and its paleobiogeographical implications.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a34. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1364 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5599-styracosternan-of-la-rioja

• Bruno A. Navarro, Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, Marcelo A. Fernandes, Alberto B. Carvalho, Hussam Zaher(2024). “First dinosaur ichnofauna from the Bauru Group indicates Cenomanian–Turonian events led to an ‘Ornithischian Hiatus’ in the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil.” Cretaceous Research, Volume 168, December 2024, Article Number 106075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106075

• Phil R. Bell, Matthew C. Herne, Sienna A. Birch, Ralph E. Molnar & Elizabeth T. Smith (2025). “Articulated hindlimb of a small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia.” Alcheringa (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2537025 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2537025

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