2025 articles

Fish; Agnatha, Thelodonti, Placoderm, Acanthodians, Chondrichthyes, Fish, Crossopterygians, Lungfish, Coelocanths, Fish Ichnology, Fish burrows, Fish Coprolites

Amphibians; Temnospondyli ("Labyrinthodons", Early Amphibians), Reptilosauromorph, Lepospondyli, Amphibians

Reptilia; Lower Reptiles (“Anapsids”), Turtles, Diapsida (Lower Lepidosauromorphs), Lizards and snakes, Sphenodonts, Ichthyosaurs, Sauropterygians and Placodontians, Lower Archosauromorpha, “Thecodontia, Pseudosuchia", Crocodilia (Mesosuchia, Eusuchia), Pterosaurs

Dinosaurs; Dinosauromorpha Theropoda, Sauropodomorpha (Sauropoda, Prosauropoda), Ornithischia, Armored dinosaurs, Dinosaurs in general, Aves (Mesozoic)

Synapsids; Pelycosaurs, Theriodontia, Deinocephalia, Mammals (Mesozoic)

Eggs, Ichnology, Palaeopathologies, Gastroliths, Stomach contents, Coprolites,Cannibalism, Regurgitalite, Fire (Mesozoic, Paleozoic), Beetle Borrings, Toothmarks, Histology, Soft tissue, Bonebed, Taphonomy, Burrows, DNA (and Blood), (suppose) Tertiary Dinosaurs, Venomous, Extinction

Integuments; Feathers, Skin, Hair

Interesting articles


Agnatha

Crump, J. G., 2025, Evolutionary origin of lubricated joints at the dawn of jawed vertebrates: PLOS Biology, v. 23, n. 2, 3pp. Link to pdf

Haridy, Y., Norris, S. C.P., Fabbri, M., Nangul, K., Sharma, N., Miller J. F., Rivers, M., La Riviere Patrick, Vargas, P., Ortega-Hernandez, J., and Shubin, N. H., 2025, The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons: Natrue, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Hughes, L. C., Bloom, D. D., Piller, K. R., Lang, N., and Mayden, R. L., 2025, Phylogenomic resolution of lambreys reveals the recent evolution of an ancient vertebrate leneage: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, v. 292: 20242101, 11pp. Link to pdf

Marss, T., 2025, On the Silurian and lowermost Devonian vertebrates from the Ufa Amphitheatre, the Cental Urals, with emphasis on agnathans and correlations with the East Baltic: Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 74, n. 2, p. 96-119. Link to pdf

Schnetz, L., Lanzetti, A., Jones, A. S., Dearden, R. P., Lautenschlager, S., Giles, S., Hohanson, Z., and Sansom, I. J., 2025, From head to tail: 3D imaging the whole-body morphology of teh stem gnathostome Anglaspis heintzi: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 5, e2475441, 11pp.

Sharma, N., Haridy, Y., and Shubin, N., 2025, Synovial joings were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish: PLOS Biology, v. 23, n. 2: e3002990, 23pp. Link to pdf


Thelodonti

Cowan, M. B., de Rafelis, M,. Segalen, L., Kear, B. P., Dumont, M., and Zigaite, Z., 2025, Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains: PeerJ 13:e18763 DOI 10.7717/poeerj.18763, 24pp. Link to pdf

Marss, T., 2025, On the Silurian and lowermost Devonina vertebrates from the Ufa Amphitheatre, the Cental Urals, with emphasis on agnathans and correlations with the East Baltic: Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences,


Placoderm

Genus: Nova (2)

Albarutheniaspis NEWMAN & PLAX, 2025

Tongdulepis LUO, PAN & ZHU, 2025

Species: Nova (4)

Albarutheniaspis bessonovae NEWMAN & PLAX, 2025

Bothrioleps zhujiangyuanensis XIAN, PAN, WANG, JIA, ZHAO, LUO & ZHU, 2025

Microbrachius longi MARK-KURIK, NEWMAN, den BLAAUWEN & JONES, 2025

Romundina gagnieri OLIVE, KOTOULAS, GOUJERT, CONOGHUE, MARONE & RUCKLIN, 2025

Tongdulepis concavus LUO, PAN & ZHU, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Cleveland's famous sea monster gets a scietific update: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Dworczak, P. G., Szrek, P., and Wilk, O., 2025, Bioerosion in the Late Devonian placoderm remains from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 629-639. Link to pdf

Engelman, R. K., Carr, R. K., Trinajstic, K., Johanson, Z., and Lebedev, O. A., 2025, Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleostes terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira): The Anatomical Record, published online, 62pp. Link to pdf

Luo, Y., Pan, Z., and Zhu, M., 2025, A new tubalepid fish (antiarcha, Palacodermi) from the Middle Devonian of Huize, Yunnan, China: Swiss journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:11, 15pp. (Tongdulepis concavus) Link to pdf

Mark-Kurik, E., Newman, M. J., den Blaauwen, J. L., and Jones, R., 2025, A new species of the antiarch Microbrachius from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of Estonia: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28,n . 2: a35, 18pp. (Microbrachius longi) Link to pdf

Newman, M. J., and Plax, D. P., 2025, A new articulated Upper Devonian (Upper Famennian) Groenlandaspidid fish (Arthrodira) from Belarus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2529916, 11pp. (Albarutheniaspis bessonovae)

Olive, S., Kotoulas, I., Goujet, D., Conoghue, P. C. J., Marone, F., and Rucklin, M., 2025, A new 'acanthothoracid' placoderm from the Arctic Canada (Early Devonian) and its bearing on the evolution of jaws and teeth: Royals Society Open Science, v. 12:250837, 21pp. (Romundina gagnieri) Link to pdf

Pears, J. B,. Johanson, Z., Boisvert, C. A., and Trinajstic, K. M., 2025, Reconstructing the paired fin skeletons and musculature in arthrodires from the Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia: implications of arthrodire appendicular anatomy for the serial homology of vertebrate limbs: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2486071, 15pp. Link to pdf

Pears, J. B,. Johanson, Z., Boisvert, C. A., and Trinajstic, K. M., 2025, Reconstructing the paired fin skeletons and musculature in arthrodires from the Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia: implications of arthrodire appendicular anatomy for the serial homology of vertebrate limbs: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 6, e2486071, 15pp.

Rogoff, C. L., and Ullmann, P. V., 2025, Age is just a number: examining the preservation of cells and soft tissues in Bothriolepis and other Devonian fish: PLos One, v. 20, n. 12:e-335783, 14pp. Link to pdf

Trinajstic, K., Johanson, Z., Burrow, C., Smith, M. M., Long, J., Clement, A., Choo, B., Maksimenko, A., and Dupret, V., 2025, New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipent site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition adn resorption: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, published online, 17pp.

Xian, Z., Pan, Z., Wang, J, Jia, L., Zhao, Y., Luo, Y., and Zhu, M., 2025, A new antiarch, Bothrioleps zhujiangyuanensis sp. nov., from the Eifelian (Middle Devonian) of Qujing Yunnan, SW China: Acta Geologica Sinca (English Edition, v. 99, n. 1, p. 1-14. (Bothrioleps zhujiangyuanensis) Link to pdf


Acanthodians

Genus: Nova (1)

Angelacanthus GESS & BURROW, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Angelacanthus acus (GESS, 2001) GESS & BURROW, 2025

= Diplicanthus acus GESS, 2001

Andreev, P. S., Zhu, M, Brakenhoff, L., Li, Q., Zhao, Q., Peng, L., Marone, F., Dearden, R. P., and Rucklin, M., 2025, The shoulder girdle of early chondrichthyans grew by skeletal remodeling: Biology Leters, v. 21:20250411, 8pp. Link to pdf

Gess, R. W., and Burrow, C. J., 2025, Acanthodian fauna of the Upper Devonian Waterloo Farm Lagerstatte, South Africa:  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e256538, 13pp. (Angelacanthus acus, = Diplicanthus acus)


Chondrichthyes

Genus: Nova (8)

Archaeoscyllium
BEGAT, VILLALOBOS-SEGURA, JAMBURA, STAGGL, KLUG & KRIWET, 2025
Apolithabatis
TURTSCHER, JAMBURA, SPINDLER & KRIWET, 2025

Batillodus
DUFFIN, LAUER & LAUER, 2025

Clavusodens
HODNETT, EGIL, TOOMEY, OLSON, TOLLESON, BOLDON, TWEET & SANTUCCI , 2025
Eorapax
SAUGEN, ROBERTS, ENGELSCHION & HURUM, 2025
Jurascyllium
BEGAT, VILLALOBOS-SEGURA, JAMBURA, STAGGL, KLUG & KRIWET, 2025
Wimanodon
SAUGEN, ROBERTS, ENGELSCHION & HURUM, 2025

Species: Nova (11)

Apolithabatis seioma TURTSCHER, JAMBURA, SPINDLER & KRIWET, 2025

Batillodus beaveri
DUFFIN, LAUER & LAUER, 2025

Callorhinchus orientalis OTA, NISHIMURA, KOBAYASHI & MORIKI, 2025
Clavusodens mcginnisi
HODNETT, EGIL, TOOMEY, OLSON, TOLLESON, BOLDON, TWEET & SANTUCCI , 2025
Eorapax serrasis SAUGEN, ROBERTS, ENGELSCHION & HURUM, 2025
Palaeospondylus australis
BURROW, YOUNG & LU, 2025
Pararhincodon torquis DEARDEN, JOHANSON, O'NEILL, MILES, BERNARD, CLARK, UNDERWOOD & RUCKLIN, 2025
Scapanorhynchus patagonensis
BEGAT, KRIWET, GELFO, GOUIRIC-CAVALLI, SCHULTS & MARTIN, 2025
Strophodus timoluebkei
CARRILLO-BRICENO, STOSSEL, KINDLIMANN & KLUG, 2025
Synchodus rotheliusi
SAUGEN, ROBERTS, ENGELSCHION & HURUM, 2025
Wimanodon marmieri
SAUGEN, ROBERTS, ENGELSCHION & HURUM, 2025

Synonyum: Nova (2)

Archaeoscyllium muftius
(THEIS, 1982) BEGAT, VILLALOBOS-SEGURA, JAMBURA, STAGGL, KLUG & KRIWET, 2025
= Protospinax? muftius
THEIS, 1982
Jurascyllium magnus
(UNDERWOOD & WARD, 2004) BEGAT, VILLALOBOS-SEGURA, JAMBURA, STAGGL, KLUG & KRIWET, 2025
= Protospinax magnus
UNDERWOOD & WARD, 2004

Amandori, M, Japundzic, S., Amalfitano, J,. Giusberti, L,. Fornacian, E., Jambura, P. E. and Kriwet, J., 2025, New insights on the shell-crusher shark Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) based on the first known articulted dentition from the Upper Cretaceous of Croatia: Swiss Journal of Paleontology, v. 144:2, 22pp.
Link to pdf


Andrews, J. V., Shirley, E. A., Figueroa, R. T., 2025, Vertebrates of the Blue Ridge Esker (Mississippian, Marshal Sandstone) of Michigan: Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michgian, v. 36, n. 3, p.43-58. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Island life 200 million years ago: Ancient neptunian dike reveals rare mixed marine and terretrial fossil assemblage: Phys Org, published online, 7 pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, An old fish fossil tells a new story about lamniform shark evolution: Phys Org, 5pp. Link to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, New fossil shartk named from ancient skeleton discovered in southern England: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Babcock, L. E., 2025, Rediscovery of the Type specimens of the Sarcopterygian fishes Onychodus sigmoides and Onychodus hopkinsi from the Devonian of Ohio, USA: Diversity, v. 17: 375, 20pp. Link to pdf

Bazzi, M., Siversson, M., Wintner, S., Newbrey, M., Bayne, J. L., Campione, N. E., Robrerts, A. J., Natanson, L. J., Hall, S., blake, T., and Kear, P. K., 2025, Early gigantic lamniform marks teh onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution: Comminicatiosn Biology, v. 8:1499, 11pp. Link to pdf

Begat, A., Kriwet, J., Gelfo, J. N., Gouiric-Cavalli, S., Schultz, J. A., and Martin, T., 2025, Novel perspectivs on Late Cretaceous elasmobranch diversity in Southern Hemisphere high latitudes: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, published online, 22pp. (Scapanorhynchus patagonensis) Link to pdf

Begat, A., Villalobos-Segura, E., Jambura, P. L., Staggl, M. A., Klug, S., and Kriewet, J., 2025, Review of the dental pattern in the squalomorph shark Protospinax annectans, and a description of two new Jurassic Shark genera: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 731-748. (Jurascyllium magnus = Protospinax magnus, Archaeoscyllium muftius = Protospinax? muftius) Link to pdf

Brinkman, D. B., Lopez, J. A., Erickson, G. M., Eberle, J. J., Munoz, X., Wilson, L. N., Perry, Z. R., Murray, A. M., Van Loon, L., Banerjee, N. R., and Druckenmiller, P. S., 2025, Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and thier paleobiogeographical significance: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 3, 29pp.  Link to pdf

Bronson, A., Pradel, A., Gueriau, P., Landman, N., Mapes, R., Otoo, B., and Maisey, J. G., 2025, Vertebrate assemblage and depositional environment of the Fayetteville Shale (Upper Mississippian, middle Chesterian): Geobios, published online, 18pp. Link to pdf

Burrow, C. J., Young, G. C., and Lu, J., 2025, A 3D braincase of the early jawed vertebrate Palaeospondylus from Australia: National Science Review, v. 12:nwae444, 9pp. (Palaeospondylus australis) Link to pdf

Canete-Canete, N. G. ,Willafana, J. A., Farias, l., Gayo, E. m., and Rivadeneira, M. M., 2025, The fossil record of chondrithyans (Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) from the Cretaceous-Eocene in Chile: diversity and palaeobiographic implications: Historical Biology, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Carrillo-Briceno, J., Stossel, I., Kindlimann, R., and Klug, C., 2025, A new hybodontiform shark (Strophodus Agassiz, 1838) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:36, 10pp. (Strophodus timoluebkei) Link to pdf

Clancy, D., 2025, Ghost Sharks, rare chimaeroid fossils from Richmond's ancient sea: In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 29-30.

Cowan, M. B., de Rafelis, M,. Segalen, L., Kear, B. P., Dumont, M., and Zigaite, Z., 2025, Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains: PeerJ 13:e18763 DOI 10.7717/poeerj.18763, 24pp. Link to pdf

Dearden, R. P., Johanson, Z., O'Neill, H L., Miles, K., Bernard, E. L., Clark, B., Underwood, C. J., and Rücklin, M., 2025, Three-dimensional fossils of a Cretaceous collared carpet shark (Parascylliidae, Orectolobiformes) shed light on skeletal evolution in galeomorphs: Royal SocieteOpen Science, v. 12: 242011, 15pp. (Pararhincodon torquis) Link to pdf 

Duffin, C. J., Lauer, B., and Lauer, R., 2025, New Janassid Petalodontiform (Chondrichthyes) teeth from the Late Carbonfierous of Kansas, USA: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 313, n. 2, p. 215-232. (Batillodus beaveri)

Duffin, C. J., and Ward, D. J., 2025, A holomorphic chimaeroid (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco and a review of the genus Elasmodectes Woodward, 1888: In: Fossil Record 10, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 100, 49-59. Link to pdf

Eltink, E., da Silva, K R., de Franca, M. A. G., de Morais, D. M. F., Soto, M,. and Fuffin, C. J., 2025, Morphology and paleoecology of a hybodontiform with serrated teeth, Priohybodus arambourgi, from the Late Jurassic of northeastern Brazil: The Anatomical Record, published online, 28pp. Link to pdf

Gayford, J. H., and Jambura, P. L., 2025, Drivers of diversifitation in sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii): Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf


Gayford, J. H., 2025, Sharks now roam the open ocean. But from 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Gayford, J. H., Jambura, P. L., Turtscher, J., Sternes, P. C., Seamone, S. G., and Shimada, K., 2025, Habitit availability, Jurassic and Cretaceous origins of the Deep-bodied shark maorphotype and the rise of pelagic sharks: Ecology and Evolution, published online, 13pp. Link to pdf


Goncalves, D., Luccisano, V., Rebillard, A., Logghe, A., Stamberg, S., and Steyer, j.-S., 2025, New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins: Comptes Rendus Palevol, v. 24, n. 11, p. 191-217. Link to pdf


Goolaerts, S., 2025, Predator-prey dynamics in a latest Cretaceosu marine ecosystem: mosasaur and shark attacks on the echinoid Hemipneustes striatoradiatus from the Maastrichtina type area (the Netherlands, Belgium): Geologica Belgica, v. 28, n. 3-4, p. 133-146. Link to pdf

Griffin, B. W., Keating, J. N., Carmona, P. S. M., Johanson, Z., Dearden, R. P., Conoghue, P. C. J., and Rayfield, E. J., 2025, Evolution of chondrichthyan jaw morpholgy, from ecological generalists to specialists: Paleobiology, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Greif, M., Calandra, I., Lautenschlager, S., Kaiser, T. M., Mezan, M., and Klug, C., 2025, Reconsturctiono of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 249036, 22pp.
Link to pdf


Hodnett, J.-P. M., Egli, H. C., Toomey, R., Olson, R., Tolleson, K., Boldon, R., Tweet, J. S., and Santucci, V. L., 2025, Obruchevodid petalodonts (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Obruchevodidae) from the Middle Mississippian (Visean) Joppa Memeber of the Ste. Genevieve Formation at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky U.S.A: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 11pp. (Clavusodens mcginnisi)
Link to pdf

Hodnett, J.-P. M., Mateo, M., Timko, S. B., Bovis, J. M., Mateo, R., Sues, H.-D., and Santucci, V. L., 2025, Review of the palaeoichthyological records from the Permian Phosphoria, Park City and Shedhorn Formations at Forellen Peak, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming In: Fossil Record 20, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 100, p. 77-86pp. Link to pdf

Hodnett, J.-P. M., Miller, A. E., Bovis, J. M., and Santucci, V. L., 2025, The first record of the holocephalan Crassidonta stuckenbergi Branson, 1916 (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali, Cochliodontiformes) from the Lower-Middle Permian Kaibab Formation, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Fossil Record 10, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 100, p. 71-75pp. Link to pdf

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf


Kocakova, K., Silvestro, D., Mathes, G. H., Villafana, J. A., and Primiento, C., 2025, Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B., v. 292:20252272, 12pp. Link to pdf

Kogan, I., Fischer, J., Schneider, J. W., and R
ößkerm 2025, Die fossile haieikapserl Fayolia sterezeliana aus dem unterkarbon von Chemnitz - das fosil des Jahres 2025: Veröffentlichungen Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, v. 48, p. 5-26. Link to pdf

Li, J., Sun, Z., Cuny, G., Zhao, S., Yao, M., and Song, L., 2025, New ichthyofaunal microfossils from the Late Periman at Chaotian, Sichuan, Southwest China: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:29, 17pp. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

McLean, G., 2025, Sydney Basin in the Triassic-a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and eocosystems. The Wianamatta Group: Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, n. 42, 29pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Ota, A., Nishimura, T., Kobayashi, Y., and Moriki, K., 2025, Callorhinchus orientalis sp. nov., a new callorhinichid from the Upper Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Hokkaido, Japan: Paleontological Research, v. 29, p. 54-63. ( Callorhinchus orientalis) Link to pdf

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J., Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

Saugen, S. M., Roberts, A. J., Engelschion, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2024 (published 2025), a new assemblage of Lower Triassic Neoselachians (Chondrichthyes) from the Grippia Bonebed of Spitsbergen, Nortway: Journal of Vertebrtae Paleontology, v. 44, n. 3, e2426544, 11pp. (Synchodus rotheliusi, Wimanodon marmieri, Eorapax serrasis)

Scharling, T. H., Roberts, A. J., Foffa, D, Engelschion, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Dental and dietary disparity among marine vertebrats from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard-life bites the dust, or a new hope? Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 205, 303504, 45pp. Link to pdf

Shimada, K., Gonzales, P. B., Everhart, M. J., Liggett, G. A., Martin, D. J., and Schumacher, B .A., 2025, A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, southeastern Colorado, USA, with comments on the vertebrate assemblages at or near the contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, V. 128, n. 3-4, p. 180-200. Link to pdf

Staggl, M. A., De Gracia, C., Lopez-Romero, F. A., Stumpf, S., Villalobos-Segura, E., Benton, M J., and Kriwet, J., 2025, The drivers of Mesozoic neoselachian success and resilience: Biology, v. 14, 142, 19pp. Link to pdf


Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. Link to pdf

Türtscher, J., Jambura, p. L., Spindler, F., and Kriwet, J., 2025, insights into stem batomorphii: a new holomorphic ray (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) form the upper Jurassic of Germany: Plos One, v. 20, n. 1: e0310174, 32pp. (Apolithabatis seioma) Link to pdf


Vazhenin, G. A., Bogatenko, /j. E., Gorodchikov, S. V., and Mychko, E. V., 2025, First fiding of tooth of Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes) in Moraine of the Kaliningrad Region: Vestnik of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Series: Natural and Medical Sciences, n. 2, p. 130-141. Link to pdf


Vida, T. P., Kriwet, J., and Martin, T., 2025, A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Boneburg (NRW) Germany: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, published online, 26pp. Link to pdf

Villalobos-Segura, E., Amadori, M., Stumpf, S., Jambura, P. L., Begat, A., Lopez-Romero, F. A., Schweigert, G., Maxwell, E. E., and Kriwet, J., 2025, Articulated specimens provide new insights into the iconic Mesozoic shark genus Sphenodus: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23:1, 2507014, 36pp. Link to pdf

Villalobos-Segura, E., Stumpf, S., Turtscher, J,. Jambura, P. L., Begat, A., Lopez-romero, F. a., Fischer, J., and Kriwet, J., 2025, A synoptic review of the cartilagonus fishes (Chondrichtyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstatten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, diveristy, and faunal relationships: Diversity, v. 15, 386, 70pp.

Volosky, D., Moisan, P., lsara, M. B., Schneider, J. W., Scholze, F., Espinoza, M., Schmitz, O., Aguilar, M., Morales, D., Flores, M., Contreras, J,. and frenzel, P., 2025, A Late Triassic biota from a rift-lake system in southwestern Gondwana (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 679, 112228, 22pp. Link to pdf

 Weeks, O. J., Cooper, R. B., Whiteside, D. I., Duffin, C. J., Copp, C., Hildebrandt, C,. Hutchinson, D., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Young, G. C., 2025, A 380-million-year-old fossil 'fish' form Scotland has been discovered in Australia: Phys Org, published online, 6pp.
Link to pdf


Zhao, Y., Bestwick, J., Fischer, J., Bastiaans, D., Freif, M., and Klug, C., 2025, The first record of a shortnose chimaera-like egg capsule from the Mesozoic (Late Jurassic, Switzerland): Swiss Journal fo Paleontology, 144:8, 23pp. Link to pdf


Fish

Genus: Nova (11)

Archaeosiilik BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Beukidercetis HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Cacatualepis BEAN, 2025

Juraelops PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Naunikuluk BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Paraplesiopoma TRIF, PIRNEA, CERNANSKY, SCHWARZHANS, BALC, JAIN, KAIM, BAKAYEVA & HRYNIEWICZ, 2025

Petrodercetis HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Phoebeannaia CARON, VENKATARAMAN, TIETJEN & COATES FLS, 2025

Sivulliusalmo BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Sphyragnathus WILSON, MANSKY & ANDERSON, 2025

Tenupiscis STACK, GOTTFRIED & STOCKER, 2025

Species: Nova (30)

Armigatus simonettoi AMALIFITANO, MARRAMA, BANNIKOV, DALLA VECCHIA & CARNEVALE, 2025

Archaeosiilik gilmulli BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Archaeotolithus solidus PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025 

Beukidercetis lissus HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Caturus enkopicaudalis EBERT & LOPEZ-ARBARELLO, 2025

Caudadercetis taverni HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Cyranichthys sideralis HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Habroichthys nietorum CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys bosi CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys veronikae CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys celarci CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys flaviae CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys zuitaensis CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Habroichthys dincae CONEDERA, ITIJI, MONARI, GATTO, ANDREETTI & TINTORI, 2025

Juraelops prodigiosum PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Kalops loganenensis SHEN, 2025

Moythomasia lebedevi PLAX, BAKAEV & NAUGOLNYKH, 2025

Naunikuluk gracilis BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Palealbula ventai PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Palealbula crenulata PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Paraplesiopoma transylvanica TRIF, PIRNEA, CERNANSKY, SCHWARZHANS, BALC, JAIN, KAIM, BAKAYEVA & HRYNIEWICZ, 2025

Petrodercetis bidirectus HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

Phoebeannaia mossae CARON, VENKATARAMAN, TIETJEN & COATES FLS, 2025

Polazzodus mihalyfii SZABO & CAWLEY, 2025

Protalbula dorsetensis PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Pteralbual jurassica PINDAKIEWICZ, HRYNIEWICZ, RINKEVICIUTE, SZTAJNER, JANISZEWSKA & KAIM, 2025

Saurichthys justitas STACK, NESBITT, STRICKLIN & STOCEKR, 2025

Sivulliusalmo alaskensis BRINKMAN, LOPEZ, ERICKSON, EBERLE, MUNOZ, WILSON, PERRY, MURRAY, VAN LOON, BANERJEE & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025

Simocormus seyboldi MAXWELL, COOPER, SERAFINI & SCHWEIGERT, 2025

Sphyragnathus tyche WILSON, MANSKY & ANDERSON, 2025

Tenupiscis dakotaensis STACK, GOTTFRIED & STOCKER, 2025

Synonym: Nova (3)

Beukidercetis grandis (WALLAARD, FRAAIJE, DIEPENDAAL, AND JAGT, 2019) HEERE, WALLAARD, RIJKE & JAGT, 2025

= Pelargorhynchus grandis WALLAARD, FRAAIJE, DIEPENDAAL, AND JAGT, 2019

Cacatualepis australis (WOODWARD, 1895) BEAN, 2025

= Coccolepis australis WOODWARD, 1895

Rhadinichtys bearsdeni (COATES, 1998) MO, CARON & COATES, 2025

= Woodichthys bearsdeni COATES 1998

Alvarado-Ortega, J., Pacheco-Ordaz, S., Than-Marchese, B. A., Lupercio-Espericueta, N., de Jesus Capistran-Romero, B. R., adn Diasz-Cruz, J. A., 2025, The Sumidero Quarry, an Albian fossil fish site in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, southeasern Mexico: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2: a23, 33pp. Link to pdf

Amalfitano, J., Marrama, G., Bannikov, A. F., Dalla Vecchia, F. M., and Carnevale, G., 2025, A new armigatid fish (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Italy:   Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2514113, 20pp. (Armigatus simonettoi)

Andrews, J. V., Shirley, E. A., Figueroa, R. T., 2025, Vertebrates of the Blue Ridge Esker (Mississippian, Marshal Sandstone) of Michigan: Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michgian, v. 36, n. 3, p.43-58. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Island life 200 million years ago: Ancient neptunian dike reveals rare mixed marine and terretrial fossil ssemblage: Phys Org, published online, 7 pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Fossil fish sheds new light on extra teeth evolutino to devour prey: Phy Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Fossilizedear bones rewirte the history of freshwter fish: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Oldest oceanic reptile ecosystems from the age of dinosaurs found on Arctic island: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Bakaev, A. S., and Karaseva, U. I., 2025, On the evolution of the Ray-finned fish fauna of the Permian and Triassic of the Kuznetsk Basin: Palaeontological Journal, v. 59, n. 5, p. 529-539. Link to pdf

Bean, L. B., 2025, Cacatualepis: a new genus name for coccolepids from the Australian Mesozoic: Alcheringa: An Australiasian Journal of Palaeontology, Published online, 31pp. (Cacatualepis australis = Coccolepis australis) Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Brinkman, D. B., Kundrat, M., Ward, D. J., Murray, A. M., Aimbetov, I. K., Van Loon, L., and Banerjee, N. R., 2026 (published 2025), Fish faunas from the Bissekty Formation (Turonian), Uzbekistan: insights into biogeographic connectivity and climate-driven faunal turnover: Cretaceous Research, 179: 106252, 36pp.

Brinkman, D. B., Lopez, J. A., Erickson, G. M., Eberle, J. J., Munoz, X., Wilson, L. N., Perry, Z. R., Murray, A. M., Van Loon, L., Banerjee, N. R., and Druckenmiller, P. S., 2025, Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and thier paleobiogeographical significance: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 3, 29pp. (Archaeosiilik gilmulli, Naunikuluk gracilis, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis) Link to pdf

Bronson, A., Pradel, A., Gueriau, P., Landman, N., Mapes, R., Otoo, B., and Maisey, J. G., 2025, Vertebrate assemblage and depositional environment of the Fayetteville Shale (Upper Mississippian, middle Chesterian): Geobios, published online, 18pp. Link to pdf

Capasso, L., and Witzmann, F., 2025, Atavisms in Pycnodontomorpha (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii): Palaeodivrsity, v. 18, p. 35-49. Link to pdf

Caron, A., Venkataraman, V,. Tietjen, K., and Coates Fls, M., 2025, A fish for Phoebe: a new actinopterygian from the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures of Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, UK, and a revision of Kansasiella eatoni: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, published online, 25pp. (Phoebeannaia mossae)

Cavicchini, I., Argyriou, T., Fernandez, V., Dollman, K, and Giles, S., 2025, Redesrciption of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Traissic of East Greenland, with implications for the ontogeny of early actinopterygians: Journal of Systematic Paleontology, publihsed online, 46pp. Link to pdf

Chen, D., 2025, Lungfish-like antero-labial tooth addition and amphibian-like enameloid-enamel transition in the coronoid of a Devonian stem actinopterygian: Journal of Anatomy, publisehd online, 24pp. Link to pdf

Conedera, D., Hitii, T., Monari, S., Gatto, R., Andreetti, M., and Tintori, A., 2025, The minature fish Habroichthys (Actinopterygii; Peltopleuriformes): seven new species from the Middle Triassic of Italy and Slovenia reveal insights on its paleobiology, palaeobiogeography, and Palaeoecology: Gebois, published online, 29 pp. (Habroichthys nietorum, Habroichthys bosi, Habroichthys veronikae, Habroichthys celarci, Habroichthys flaviae, Habroichthys zuitaensis, Habroichthys dincae) Link to pdf

Cooper, S. L. A., 2025, First occurrence of anacipenseriform (Chondrostei: Acipenseriformes) from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 2, e24071717, 13pp.

Cooper, S. L. A., 2025, First hypsocormine pachycormid in the Early Jurassic and its evolutionary implications for Pachycormidae (Actinopterygii: Teleosteomorpha): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., Amalfitano, J,. Kustatscher, E., and Simonetto, L., 2025, "Locality 84", a new Cretaceous Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Julian Prealps (NE Italy): Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratiraphy, v. 131, n. 2, p. 383-413. Link to pdf

Ebert, M., 2025, New species of the genus Thrissops (Teleostei, ichthodectiformes) in the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen-Archipelago (Germany) and Kimmeridge Clay (England): Zitteliana, v. 99, 32pp. (Thrissops kimmeridgensis) Link to pdf

Ebert, M, and Kolbl-Eert, M., 2025, Jurassic fish choking on floating belemnites: Scientific Reports, v. 15;16095, 9pp. Link to pdf

Ebert, M, and Kolbl-Ebert, M., 2025, Hunted hunters-prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal traks from the Late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago: Fossil Record, v. 29, n. 2, p. 347-357. Link to pdf

Ebert, M., and Lopez-Arbarello, A., 2025, A new species of the genus Caturus (Caturidae, Amiiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany): Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 155:50, 22pp. (Caturus enkopicaudalis) Link to pdf

Gardner, J. D., Brinkman, D. B., and Murray, A. M., 2025, Reidentification of the holtype of 'Ceratodus' hieroglyphus Cope form the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Montana, USA, as the scale of a holostean fish: Palaeobiodiveristy and Palaeonenvironemnts, v. 105, p. 545-572.

Giles, S., Kolman, M., and Friedman, M., 2025, Tongue-bite apparatus highlights functional innovation in a 310-million-yar-old ray-finned fish: Biology Letters, v. 21: 3050270, 8pp. Link to pdf

Goncalves, D., and Luccisano, V., 2025, Taxonomic status of 'Palaeoniscum delessei' (Early Permian, Bourbon-L'Archambault Basin, Allier, France): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e 2523972, 6pp. Link to pdf

Goncalves, D., and Luccisano, V., 2025, Taxonomic status of 'Palaeoniscum delessei' (Early Permian, Bourbon-L'Archambault Basin, Allier, France): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n . 1, e 2523972, 6pp. Link to pdf

Griffiths, C. V., Witts, J. D., Brown, J. C. S., Bernard, E., and Twitchett, R. J., 2025, Slimehead size throught time: testing the temperature-size relationships in Late Cretaceous Trachichthyidae: Ecology and Evolution, pubished online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Heere, J. J. A., Wallaard, J. J. W., de Rijke, M., and Jagt, J. W. M., 2025, Dercetid fishes from the Maastrichtian type area (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and the Netherlands: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 661-697. (Beukidercetis grandis = Pelargorhynchus grandis,  Beukidercetis lissus, Petrodercetis bidirectus, Caudadercetis taverni, Cyranichthys sideralis) Link to pdf

Hodnett, J.-P. M., Mateo, M., Timko, S. B., Bovis, J. M., Mateo, R., Sues, H.-D., and Santucci, V. L., 2025, Review of the palaeoichthyological records from the Permina Phosphoria, Park City and Shedhorn Fmroations at Forellen Peak, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming In: Fossil Record 20, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 100, p. 77-86pp. Link to pdf

Igielman, B., Figueroa, R. T., Higgins, R. R., Pierce, S. E., Coates, M. I., Troyer, E. M,. Fernandez, V., Dollman, K., Lu, J., Zhu, M., Friedman, M, and Giles, S., 2025, The lower jaw of Devonian ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): anatomy, relationships, and functional morphology: The Anatomical Record, published online, 53pp. Link to pdf

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Li, J., Sun, Z., Cuny, G., Zhao, S., Yao, M., and Song, L., 2025, New ichthyofaunal microfossils from the Late Periman at Chaotian, Sichuan, Southwest China: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:29, 17pp. Link to pdf

Liu, J,. Brinkman, D B., Murray, A. M., Newbrey, M. G., Zhou, Z., Van Loon, L. L., and Banerjee, N. R., 2025, Marne origins and freshwater radiations of the otophysan fishes: Science, publihsed online, p. 65-69. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

Maxwell, E. E., and Cooper, S. L. A., 2025, Scale histology in the Early Jurasic fish Pachycormus (Actinopterygii, Pachycormidae): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44,n. 6, e2492164, 6pp.

Maxwell, E. E., Cooper, S. L. A., Serafini, G., and Schweigert, G., 2025, A new hypsocoromine pachycormid from the Upper Jurassic Nusplinger Plattenkalk (Kimmeridgian, Germany) provides new insights into body plan evolution and scale reduction in pachycormidae (Actinotperygii): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 5, e24900123, 21pp. (Simocormus seyboldi)

McLean, G., 2025, Sydney Basin in the Triassic-a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and eocosystems. The Wianamatta Group: Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, n. 42, 29pp. Link to pdf

Miyazato, M., Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Brinkman, D. B., and Murray, A. M., 2025, Cranial anatomy of a Late Cretaceous aspidorhynchid fish (Neopterygii: Aspidorhynchiformes) from Alberta, Canada: The Antomical Record, published online, 14pp.

Mo, Y., Caron, A. M., and Coates, M. I., 2025, The eraly actinopterygian genus Rhadinichthys redifiened, the type species ornatissimus redescribed, and the species bearsdeni introduced: Earth and Environmental Science Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 115, p. 112-129. (Rhadinichtys bearsdeni = Woodichthys bearsdeni) Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Numberger-Thuy, L. D., Delsate, D., Poschmann, M. J., Schindler, T., and Thuy, B., 2025, A new phytosaur-dominated vertebrate assemblage from the Late Triassic of the South Eifel region (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, Jurassic fish choked to death on squid-like cephalopods, fossil sudy reveals: Phys Org, published online, 5 pp. Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, Decapitated fossil fish with guts still intact reveal ancient predatory habits: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, Newly identified fossil fish from England's Jurassic Coast reveals insights into an extinct group: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Pacheo Ordax, S., Reyes-Lopez, A., and Alvarado-Ortega, J, 2025, A Turonian pycnodontiform fish from the San Jouse de Gracia Quarry, Puebla, Mexico: Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, v. 77, n. 1, 22pp. Link to pdf

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J., Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Pindakiewicz, M. K., Hryniewicz, K., Rinkeviciute, S., Sztajner, P., Janiszewska, K., and Kaim, A., 2025, Jurassic teleost diversity and abundance changes, recorded by otolith and cephalopod statolith assemblages: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2613091, v. 45, n. 2, 27pp. (Pteralbula jurassica, Palealbula ventai, Palealbula crenulata, Protalbula dorsetensis, Juraelops prodigiosum, Archaeotolithus solidus

Plax, D. P., Bakaev, A. S., and Naugolnykh, S. V., 2025, A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus: Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 25-38. (Moythomasia lebedevi )  Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

San Roman, C., Marugan-Lobon, J,. and Martin-Abad, H., 2025, Sof tissue preservation reveals gastrointestional variation among the teleosts form Las Hoyas: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, v 40, n. 2, 11pp. Link to pdf

Scharling, T. H., Roberts, A. J., Foffa, D, Engelschiøn, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Dental and dietary disparity among marine vertebrats from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard-life bites the dust, or a new hope? Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 205, 303504, 45pp. Link to pdf

Serafini, G., Kriwet, J,. Tolodo, T., Fornaciari, E., Amalfitano, J., and Carnevale, G., 2025, Almost billfish:convergent longirostry, micro-dentition, and possible glandular sinuses in a large teleost fish from the Upper Cretaceous of Northern Italy: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Shen, C., 2025, A new early actinopterygian from the Mid-Pennsylvanian Logan Quarry Shale member of Indiana: PLOS one, v. 20, n. 5, 26pp. (Kalops loganenensis) Link to pdf

Shimada, K., Gonzales, P. B., Everhart, M. J., Liggett, G. A., Martin, D. J., and Schumacher, B .A., 2025, A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, southeastern Colorado, USA, with comments on the vertebrate assemblages at or near the contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, V. 128, n. 3-4, p. 180-200. Link to pdf

Stack, J., 2025, An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): The Anatomical Record, published online, 31pp. Link to pdf

Stack, J. R., Gottfried, M. D., and Stocker, M. R., 2025, A new Lower Permian Ray-Finned Fish (Actinopterygii) from South Dakota and the use of tree space to find rouge taxa in phylogentic analysis of morphologicla data: Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, published online, 29pp. (Tenupiscis dakotaensis) Link to pdf

Stack, J., Nesbitt, S. J,. Stricklin, M. L., and Stocker, M. R., 2025, A new species of the ray-finned fish Saurichthys (Actinopterygii) from the Dockum Group of Texas (Upper Triassic, Norian) highlights the late appearance of elongate jaws in neopterygians: Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, v. 44, n. 5, e2470026, 16pp. (Saurichthys justitas)

Steiner, G., 2025, Jaw versatility enabled the ecological success of amniotes, paleontolgists find: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Sutherland, J. F., Henderson, S, Fasey, S., and Giles, S., 2025, Diversification dynamics of the Palaeozoic actinopterygian radiation: Proceedings of the Royal Socitey, Series B., v. 292:20262732, 12pp. Link to pdf

Szabo, M,. and Cawley, J. J., 2025, A new pycnodontid fish from a freshwater habitat in the Upper Cretaceous Iharkut vertebrate locality, Bakony Mountains, Hungary: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 765-773. (Polazzodus mihalyfii) Link to pdf

Tintori, A., 2025, A flying fish across the Tethys: Thoracopterus wushaensis Tintori et al., 2012, from the Pelsa/Vazzoler Fossil-Lagerstätte (Late Ladinian, Middle Triassic) in the Dolomites (Italy): Diversity, v. 17, 847, 20pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. (Paraplesiopoma transylvanica) Link to pdf

Tyborowski, D., and Wierny, W., 2025, Dental microtomorphic evidence for functional heterodonty in the upper jaw of a Late jurassic pycnodont actinopterygian fish: Geological quarterly, v. 69, n. 13, 6pp. Link to pdf

Volosky, D., Moisan, P., lsara, M. B., Schneider, J. W., Scholze, F., Espinoza, M., Schmitz, O., Aguilar, M., Morales, D., Flores, M., Contreras, J,. and frenzel, P., 2025, A Late Triassic biota from a rift-lake system in southwestern Gondwana (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 679, 112228, 22pp. Link to pdf

Xu, G.-H., Ma, X.-Y., Lu, L.-Q., Liao, J.-L., Tan, F.-T., and Sun, C.-K., 2025, Taxonomic revision of Guizhoubrachysomus minor (Semionotiformes, Ginglymodi) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Xingyi biota in Guizhou and Yunnan, China: Conrtibutions from the Museum of Paleontology, Univeristy of Michigan, v. 37, n. 4, p. 79-92. Link to pdf

Xu, G.-H., Yuan, Z.-W., Ren, Y., Liao, J.-L., Zhao, L-J., and Song, H.-J., 2024, Teffichthys wui sp. nov., a new perleidid fish from the Early Triassic of Jiangsu and Anhui, China: Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 62, n. 3, p. 165-185. (Teffichthys wui) Link to pdf

Wilson, C. D. M., 2025, A chance discovery of a 350 million-year-old fossil reveals a new type of ray-finned fish: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Wilson, C. D., Mansky, C. F., and Anderson, J S., 2025, Anew predatory actinopterygian from the Turnaisian of Nova Scotia provides insight into the evolution of Actinopterygian feeding: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 6, e2498453, 14pp. (Sphyragnathus tyche)


Crossopterygians & Finned Tetrapods

Species: Nova (1)

Onychodus mikijuk GOODCHILD, CICCARIELLO, SHUBIN & DAESCHLER, 2025

Babcock, L. E., 2025, Rediscovery of the type specimens of the sarcopterygian fishes Onychodus sigmoides and Onychodus hopkinsi from the Devoian of Ohio, USA: Diversity, v 17, 375, 20pp. Link to pdf

Batt, J. P., Challands, T. J., Long, J. A., Burke, C,. and Clement, A. M., 2025, New rhizodontid (Tetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii) material from Romer's Gap (Tournaisian) of the Ballagan Formaton (Scotland, U.K.): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2614116, 7pp. Link to pdf

Batt, J. P., Challands, T. J., Long, J. A., Burke, C,. and Clement, A. M., 2025, New rhizodontid (Tetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii) material from Romer's Gap (Tournaisian) of the Ballagan Formaton (Scotland, U.K.): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2614116, 7pp.

Bronson, A., Pradel, A., Gueriau, P., Landman, N., Mapes, R., Otoo, B., and Maisey, J. G., 2025, Vertebrate assemblage and depositional environment of the Fayetteville Shale (Upper Mississippian, middle Chesterian): Geobios, published online, 18pp. Link to pdf

Downs, J. P., 2025, New description and diagnosis of Eusthenodon wangsjoi (Tetrapodomorpha, Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian Britta Dal Formation of East Greenland: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, published online, 28 pp. Link to pdf

Friedman, M, Mondejar Fernandez, J, Henderson, S. C,. challards, T,. and Giles, S., 2025, Braincae and endocast anatomy in porolepiforms (Sarcopterygii: Dipnomorpha): evidence from the Early Devonian (Emsian) 'porolepidid' Durialepis edentatus: Earth and Envirometna, Science Transcatiosn of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 115, p. 130-146. Link to pdf

Goodchild, O. A., Ciccariello, A. R., Shubin, N H., and Daeschler, E. B. 2025, A new onychodontid (Osteichtyes, Sarcopterygii) from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) of Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44,n . 6, e2498448, 9pp. (Onychodus mikijuk)


Lungfish

Genus: Nova (1)

Paleolopus QIAO, CUI, ZHAO, LIU, LI, LU, CHOO & ZHU, 2025

Species: Nova (1)

Paleolopus yunnanensis QIAO, CUI, ZHAO, LIU, LI, LU, CHOO & ZHU, 2025

Andrews, J. V., Shirley, E. A., Figueroa, R. T., 2025, Vertebrates of the Blue Ridge Esker (Mississippian, Marshal Sandstone) of Michigan: Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michgian, v. 36, n. 3, p.43-58. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, 380-million-year-old lungfish jawbones reveal ancient eating habits of Earth's first land animals: Phys Org, published online, 5pp.
 

Bland, J., Dutel, H, Long, J. A., Fabbri, M., Bevitt, J., Trinajstic, K., Panagiotopoulou, O., and Clement, A. M., 2025, Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes: iScience, v. 28, 112970, 12pp. Link to pdf

Cowan, M. B., de Rafelis, M,. Segalen, L., Kear, B. P., Dumont, M., and Zigaite, Z., 2025, Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains: PeerJ 13:e18763 DOI 10.7717/poeerj.18763, 24pp. Link to pdf

El Fehri, A. E., Clement, A. M., Fernandez, J. M., Frief, M., and Klug, C., 2025, A new origin of the 'modern' lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans: PeerJ, v. 13:e19389, 21pp. Link to pdf

Enchelmaier, M., 2025, Tiny find, big picture, reconstructing the ecology of a bygone era:  In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 88-89.

Gardner, J. D., Brinkman, D. B., and Murray, A. M., 2025, Reidentification of the holtype of 'Ceratodus' hieroglyphus Cope form the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Montana, USA, as the scale of a holostean fish: Palaeobiodiveristy and Palaeonenvironemnts, v. 105, p. 545-572.

Li, Y., 2025, New fossil lungfish from Yunnan sheds light on critical stage of early vertebrate evolution: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf


McLean, G., 2025, Sydney Basin in the Triassic-a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and eocosystems. The Wianamatta Group: Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, n. 42, 29pp. Link to pdf

Qiao, T., Cui, X., Zhoa, W., Liu, C., Li, M.. Lu, J., Choo, B., and Zhu, M., 2025, A new fossil fish sheds light on the rapid evolution of early lungfishes: Current Biology, publisehd online, 9 pp. (Paleolopus yunnanensis)

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

Rose, L. J., Heckert, A. B., Hancox, P. J., and Hageman, S. J., 2025, Fossil lungfishes (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) of the Lower Triassic Driefontein localty in the Burgersdorp Formation, Beaufort Group, of South Africa and thier implications for ceratodontiform diversity after the end Permian mass extinciton: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2522785, 14pp.

Coelocanths

Species: Nova (1)

Whiteia anniae DAI, XU, TAN, YUAN, SUN, LIAO, GENG & SONG, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Multiple new species of 'living fossil' fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years: Phys Org, published online, 4pp.
Link to pdf

Antczak, M., and Kowalski, J., 2025, The first description of coelacanth remains from the Upper Triassic of Krasiejow, Poland: Geological Quarterly, v. 69, n. 2, p. 1-10. Link to pdf


Dai, Q.-H., Xu, G.-H., Tan, F.-T., Yuan, Z.-W., Sun, C.-K,. Liao, J.-L., Geng, B.-H., and Song, H.-J., 2025, A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarocopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China: Scientific Reports, v. 15:36320, 12pp. (Whiteia anniae) Link to pdf

Ferrante, C., and Cavin, L,. 2025, A deep dive into the coelacanth phylogeny: PLos One, v. 20, n. 6: e0320321, 142 pp.
Link to pdf

Gottfried, M. D., 2025, An Early Cretaceous record of the MAwsoniid Coelacanth Axelrodichthys from Niger: Fossil Studies, v. 3, n 16, 5pp. Link to pdf

Quinn, J. G., Whiteside, D. J, Torino, P., Matheau-Raven, E. R., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Coelacanthiform fishes of the British Rhaetian: Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, e2529821, 21pp.
Link to pdf

Quinn, J. G., Whiteside, D. J, Torino, P., Matheau-Raven, E. R., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Coelacanthiform fishes of the British Rhaetian: Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, e2529821, v. 45,n. 2, 21pp.

Yuan, Z., Cavin, L., and Song, H., 2025, On the incompleteness of the Coelacanth fossil record: Fossil Studies, v. 3, n. 10, 22pp.
Link to pdf


Fish Ichnology

Jackson, J., 2025, Fish tracks show earliest adaptations for moving on land: Phys Org, publihsed online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Moreau, J.-D., Lopez, M., Lapeyrie, J, Fouche, S., Gand, G., and Aubert, N., 2025, Swimming trails of fishes from the Permian playa-lake ecosystem of the Salagou Formation (Lodeve Basin, Southern France): Paleobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf


Fish Burrows


Fish Coprolites

 


Temnospondyli ("Labyrinthodons", Early Amphibians

Species: Nova (3)

Rhineceps karibaensis STEYER & SIDOR, 2025

Sclerocephalus megalorhinus SCHOCH, 2025

Sclerocephalus odernheimensis SCHOCH, 2025

Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E., Porro, L. B., Alksnitis, V., and Robinson, J., 2024 (published 2025), New light on the braincases of Ventastega curonica and Acanthostega gunnari: Earth and Environmental science Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburg, v. 115, p. 154-163. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Ancient amphibians bounced back from Earth's greatest mass extinction by exploriting freshwater prey, study suggests: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Anietn amphibians as big as alligators died in mass mortality event in Triassic Wyoming: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Oldest oceanic reptile ecosystems from the age of dinosaurs found on Arctic island: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Bennett, C. E., Davies, S. J., Kearsey, T. I., Reeves, E. J., and Langford, C., 2024 (published 2025), Paleoenvironment and palaeoecology of the Early Mississippian tetrapod locality Willie's Hole: Earth and Environmental Science Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 115, p. 94-98. Link to pdf

Devincenzi, S. M., and Cerdeno, E., 2025, Carlos Rusconi, a pioneer in paleontologicla knowledge and heritage protection in Mendoza Province, Argentina: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina,v.25, n. 1, p. 239-247. Link to pdf

Feng, J.-J., Zhou, Z.-D., Zhang, R.-J., and Liu, J., 2025, A fossil tooth from the upper Permian Longtan Formation of Chongqing and its significance: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 64, n, 4, p. 295-308. Link to pdf

Garza, H. K., Catlos, E. J, Lapen, T. J., Clarke, J. A., and Brookfield, M. E., 2025, New U-Pb constraints and geochemistry of the East Kirkton Quarry, Scotland: implications for early tetrapod evolution in the Carbonfierous: PLOS one, v. 20, n . 4: e0321714, 28pp. Link to pdf

Gee, B. M., 2025, Revision of 'Aspidosaurus' novomecicanus, a Permo-Carboniferous dissorphoid from New Mexico: Open Palaeontology, v. 2, n. 1, 19pp. Link to pdf

Gee, B. M., and Sidor, C. A., 2025, Diminutive temnospondyls from the Lower and Middle Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 2, e2407183, 20pp.

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf

Konietzko-Meier, D,. Prino, A., and Teschner, E. M., 2025, Hips do not lie...histology of the pelvic girdle elements of Metoposaurus from the Lae Triassic of Poland: Fossil Record, v. 28,n. 1, p. 165-178. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kufner, A. M., Deckman, M. E., Miller, H. R., So, C., Price, B. R., and Lovelace, D. M., 2025, A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Traissic) and an asessment of skeletal sorting: Plos One, v. 20, n. 4:e0317325, 30pp. Link to pdf

Logghe, A., Rebillard, A., Houee, G., Sanchez Gimeno, A., Courville, E., Elba, L., Taraba, P.-M., Paso, R., Herde, M, and Stamberg, S., 2025, Palaeoecology and palaeonvironment of Discosauriscus Kuhn, 1944 with exceptional preservation of skin and intestine molds from the early Permina of Franchesse (Allier, France): Comptes Rendus Palevol, v. 24,n . 24, p. 489-504. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

Marshall, J. E. A., Reeves, E. J, Bennett, C. E., Davies, S., Kearsey, T. I., and Millward, D., 2025, Placing the Scottish Romer's Gap tetrapods with a Tournaisian time frame: Earth adn Environmental Science Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 115, p. 99-112. Link to pdf

McLean, G., 2025, Sydney Basin in the Triassic-a review of the geology, flora and fauna, and eocosystems. The Wianamatta Group: Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, n. 42, 29pp. Link to pdf

Mehmood, A., Singh, S. A., Elsler, A., and Benton, M. J., 2025, The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12:241200, 21pp. Link to pdf

Pan, H., Guo, G., Wang, J., He, G., Guo, S., Zhang, P., Hou, R., Fang, G., Li, Y., Pan, R., Huang, K., and Li, B., 2025, Amphibian biodiversity and distribution changes form the Paleozoic in China: Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Resrach, v. 2025, article ID 1176395, 11 pp. Link to pdf

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J., Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Perez, A., 2025, The world's best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago: but there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J,. Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

Rech, M,. 2025, Triassic life: an overview of ancient amphibians, crocodile relatives, early dinosaurs and mammalian ancestors: Phys Org, puboished online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Riccetto, M., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., de Jaime-Soguero, C., de Esteban-Trivigno, S., and Fortuny, J., 2025, Tooth morphotypes shed light on the paleobiodiversity of Middle Triassic terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems from NE Iberian Peninsula (Southwestern Europe): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 39-62.  Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

Rossignol, C., logghe, A., Luccisano, V., Shi, X., Cogne, N, Poujol, M., Pradel, A., Bourquin, S., Pillola, G. L., Botella, H., Cocco, F., Loi, A., Fois, D., Stara, P., and Sanciu, L., 2025, New age constraints from the Perdasdefogu Basin, Italy: implications for vertebrate paleobiogeography during the early Permian: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 674, 113085, 14pp. Link to pdf

Scharling, T. H., Roberts, A. J., Foffa, D, Engelschion, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Dental and dietary disparity among marine vertebrats from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard-life bites the dust, or a new hope? Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 205, 303504, 45pp. Link to pdf

Schiffbauer, J., Barid, G. C., huntley, J W., Selly, T., Shabica, C. W., Laflamme, M., and Muscent, A. D., 2025, 238..721 concretaions, how do you measure the Maxon Creek? Assessing the paleonvironmental and taphonomic nature of the Braidwood and Essex assemblages: Paleobiology, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Schoch, R. R., 2025, Morphological disparity, stratigraphic distribution and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl Sclerocephalus from the late Palaeozoic of Germany: Palaeodiversity, v 18, p. 151-196. (Sclerocephalus megalorhinus, Sclerocephalus odernheimensis) Link to pdf

Schoch, R. R., Gastou, S., Steyer, J-S., Mujal, E., Moreno, R., and Witzmann, F., 2025, Morphology and ontogeny of the plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosternum granulosum from the Middle Triassic of Germany: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Schoch, R. R., Witzmann, F., Werneburg, I., Werneburg, R., Mujal, E., and Moreno, R., 2025, The morphology and evolutionary history of the Temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, published online, 20 pp. Link to pdf

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Smith, R. M. H., Sidor, C. A., Angielczyk, K. D., Nesbitt, S. J., Steyer, J.-S., and Tabor, N. J., 2025, Origio of conglomerate-hosted bonebeds at the bae of the UpperPermian Usili Formation, Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 10-23.

Stann, E., 2025, 200-million-year-old ecosystem in northern illinois includes three paleonenvironments: Phys Org, published onlien 7pp. Link to pdf

Steiner, G., 2025, Jaw versatility enabled the ecological success of amniotes, paleontolgists find: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Steyer, J.-S., and Sidor, C A., 2025, The first Paleozoic temnospondyl from Zambia: a new species of Rhinecpes from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Mid-Zambezi basin: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 24-32. (Rhineceps karibaensis)

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Uliakhin, A., 2025, Ontogenetic variation of the dissorophid Zygosaurus (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Middle Permian of European Russia: Biology Communications, v. 70, . 2, p. 139-151. Link to pdf

Werenburg, R., 2025, Morphology of the stereospondylomorph Glanochthon lellbachae from the early Permian (Rotliegend) of te eSaar-Nahe Basin, Germany: Semana, Band 40, p. 61-96. Link to pdf


Reptilosauromorphtro

Garza, H. K., Catlos, E. J, Lapen, T. J., Clarke, J. A., and Brookfield, M. E., 2025, New U-Pb constraints and geochemistry of the East Kirkton Quarry, Scotland: implications for early tetrapod evolution in the Carbonfierous: PLOS one, v. 20, n . 4: e0321714, 28pp. Link to pdf

Porro, L. B., Martin-Silverstone, E., and Rayfield, E. J., 2024 (published 2025), descriptive anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the tetrapod Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen, 1975 from the Carboniferous of Scotland: Earth and Enviromental Science Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 115, p. 164-184. Link to pdf


Lepospondyli

Byrnes, B. M., Bolt, J. R., and Mann, A., 2025, First occurrence of the urocordylid Ctenerpeton remex from the Mazon Creek Lagerstatte, Illinois, USA: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13 p. 76-80. Link to pdf.

Garza, H. K., Catlos, E. J, Lapen, T. J., Clarke, J. A., and Brookfield, M. E., 2025, New U-Pb constraints and geochemistry of the East Kirkton Quarry, Scotland: implications for early tetrapod evolution in the Carbonfierous: PLOS one, v. 20, n . 4: e0321714, 28pp. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J,. Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

Reisz, R. R., and Modesto, S. P., 2025, Re-evaluation of the Carboniferous tetrpod Asaphestera platyris with comments on the amniote fauna of the Joggins Formation, Canada: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 5, 11pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Amphibians

Genus: Nova (1)

Martintriton SKUTSCHAS, KOLCHANOV, LANG, SCHULTZ & SCHWERMANN, 2025

Species: Nova (1)

Martintriton septatus SKUTSCHAS, KOLCHANOV, LANG, SCHULTZ & SCHWERMANN, 2025

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., Kolchanov, V. V., Lang, A., Schultz, J. A., & Schwermann, A. H., 2025, Lissamphibian remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany with implications for the evolution of Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous European faunas: Palaeobiodiversity adn Palaeoenvironments, v. 105, p. 831-846. (Martintriton septatus) Link to pdf

Lower Reptiles (“Anapsids”)

Genus: Nova (1)

Amenoyenga JENKINS, BROWNING, CHOINIERE & PEECOOK, 2025

Species: Nova (2)

Amenoyenga mpunduensis JENKINS, BROWNING, CHOINIERE & PEECOOK, 2025

Kapes signus RICCETTO, MUJAL, BOLET, de JAIME-SOGUERO, de ESTEBAN-TRIVIGNO & FORTUNY, 2025

Boyarinova, E. I., and Golubev, V. K., 2025, Postcranial osteoderms of Late Permian pareiasarus from Eastern Europe. II. Genera Deltavjatia, Proelginia, Senectosaruus, Scutosaurus, and Obirkovia: Palaeontological Journal, v 59, n 3, p. 319-336.

Boyarinova, E. I., and Golubev, V. K,. 2025, Postcranial osteoderms of Late Permian Pareiasaurs from Eastern Europe. III. Late Severodvinian Pareiasaurs: Palaeontological Journal, v. 59, n. 4, p. 433-455. Link to pdf

Jenkens, K. M., Behlke, A. D. B., and Sues, H.-D., 2025, New anatonical details concerning the cranial structure of the early Permian stem reptile Protorothyris archeri revealed by uCT, with implications for the evolution of olfaction in reptiles: Palaeontology, v. 68, part 6, e70038, 26pp. Link to pdf

Jenkins, X. A., Benson, R. B. J., Ford, D. P., Browning, C., Fernandez, V., Dollman, K., Gomes, T., Griffiths, E., Choiniere, J. N., and Peecook, B. R., 2025, Evolutionary assembly of crown reptilie anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida: Peer Coumnity Journal, Section: Paleontology, published online, 34pp. Link to pdf

Jenkens, X. A., Benson, R. B. J., Elliott, M,. Jeppson, G., Dollman, K,. Fernandez, V., Browning, C., Ford, D. P., Choiniere, J., and Peecook, B. R., 2025, New information on the anatomically derived millerettid Milleretta rubidgei from the latest Permina based on uCT data Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 203, 35pp.

Jenkins, X. A. Benson, R. B. J., Ford, D. P., Browning, C., Fernandez, V., Griffiths, E., Choiniere, J., and Peecook, B. R., 2025, Cranial osteology and neuroanatomy of the late Permain reptile Milleropsis pricei and implications for early reptile evolution: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 241298. 57pp. Link to pdf

Jenkins, X. A., Browning, C., Choiniere, J, and Peecook, B R., 2025, A new moradisaurine captorhinid from the Upper Permian (Lopingian) Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Luangwa Basin) of Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 33-42. (Amenoyenga mpunduensis)

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Ichthyosaur ancestors - the case against a diapsid origin of ichthyosaur revisited: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 31pp.

Maisch, M. W., and Stöhr, H,. 2025, Eine permisches ungeheuer aus Afrika. Die fundgeschichte des Schadels von Pareiasuchus nasicornis (Reptilia: Pareiasauria) in der Tuberinger Sammlung: Chelyops, band 2, p. 203-212. Link to pdf 

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

Martinez, S. A., and Jenkins, K. M., 2025, Procolophonids display unique tooth morphologies in relation to reptilian herbivory: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

 Novak, F., Ide, O. A., and Sidor, C. A., 2025, The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger --XII. The osteoderms of Bunostos akokanensis (Parareptliia: Pareiasauria): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e252707, 12pp.

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J., Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Pineiro, G., Ferigolo, J., de Farias, B. D. M., Nunez Demarco, P., and Laurin, M., 2025, Caudal autotomy in Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervias, 1865 under scrutiny and a surprising new pattern of vertebral organization in the mesosaur tail: Geodiversitas, v. 47,n . 2, p. 17-38. Link to pdf

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J., Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

Riccetto, M., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., de Jaime-Soguero, C., de Esteban-Trivigno, S., and Fortuny, J., 2025, Tooth morphotypes shed light on the paleobiodiversity of Middle Triassic terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems from NE Iberian Peninsula (Southwestern Europe): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 39-62. (Kapes signus) Link to pdf

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

Shimada, K., Gonzales, P. B., Everhart, M. J., Liggett, G. A., Martin, D. J., and Schumacher, B .A., 2025, A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, southeastern Colorado, USA, with comments on the vertebrate assemblages at or near the contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, V. 128, n. 3-4, p. 180-200. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Smith, R. M. H., 2025, Fossils show colonies of reptiles lived communally 250 million years ago: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Weeks, O. J., Cooper, R. B., Whiteside, D. I., Duffin, C. J., Copp, C., Hildebrandt, C,. Hutchinson, D., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf


Turtle

Genus: Nova (2)

Byeolijubuchelys KIM, JUNG, JOYCE, PARK, JUNG, JO & HUH, 2025

Thaichelys SZCZYGIELSKI, DROZDT, CHANTHASIT, MANIKOON & DITBANJONG, 2025

Species: Nova (3)

Asmodochelys parhami SMITH, ADRIAN & KLINE, 2025

Byeolijubuchelys yeosuensis KIM, JUNG, JOYCE, PARK, JUNG, JO & HUH, 2025

Elkanemys caelesti SARDA & MANIEL, 2025

Synonoym: Nova (2)

Algorachelys parva (HAAS, 1987) PEREZ-GARCIA, 2025

= Podocnemis parva HAAS, 1978

= Podocnemis judea HAAS 1978

Thaichelys ruchae (BROIN, 1984) SZCZYGIELSKI, DROZDT, CHANTHASIT, MANIKOON & DITBANJONG, 2025

= Proganochelys ruchae BROIN, 1984

Adrian, B., Smith, H. F., and McDonald, A. T., 2025, A revised turtle assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation (New Mexico, Nroth America) with evolutionary and paleobiostratigraphic implications: PeerJ 13:e19340 DOI 10.7717/peerj.19340, 39pp. Link to pdf

Bojado, J. P., Pinheiro, A. E. P., and Romano, P. S. R., 2025, A reassessment of the speices "Podocnemis" brasiliensis (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group: Swiss Journal of Paleontology, v. 144:77, 31pp. Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Cadena, E.-A., Carrillo-Briceno, J D., Bastiaans, D., Fairbanks-Freund, T., Dosteur, L., and Scheyer, T. M., 2025, The first occurrence of "Plesiochelyidae" marine turtles in the early Cretaceous of South America: Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 144:52, 12pp. (Craspedochelys renzi) Link to pdf

Clark, B., Prall, J., Hannebaum, Z. J,. Orme, D. A., Panasci, G., and Varricchio, D. J., 2025, The earliest dated Basilemys (Testudines, Nanhsiungchelyidae) in North America informs polar dispersal during middle Cretaceous Hothouse conditions: Historical Biology, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Ferreira, G. S., and Evers, S. W., 2025, Neuroanatomy of Kayentachelys aprix and Eileanchelys waldmani provide insights into the early evolution of turtle brain: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:71, 17pp. Link to pdf

Gordon, C. M., Freisem, L. S., Griffin, C. T., Gauthier, J. A., and Bhullar, B.-A. S., 2025, Limg proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes; Current Biology, v. 35, 17pp. Link to pdf

Guerrero, A., Cobos, A., and Perez-Garcia, A., 2025, First study of a shell pathology in the lineage of basal turtles Helochelydridae: Swiss Journal of Paleontology, 144:49, 9pp. Link to pdf

Karal, H.-V., Tichy, G., and Safi, A., 2025, New insight into the paleobiology and systematics of the Mesozoic turtles of Central Europe (Chelonipus triuguis Karl & Tichy, 2000: Priscochelys hegnarbrunnensis Karl, 2005) and thier morphological relationships with teh toothed turtle (Odontochelys stmitestacea Li et al., 2008) of China: Mesozoic v. 2, n. 2, p. 143-154. Link to pdf

Ke, Y., Han, F., and Joye, W. G., 2025, The first pan-trionychid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China, with a summary of the turtle succession in the Ganzhou Basin: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 3, p. 607-612. Link to pdf

Ke, Y., Shi, Z., Tong, H., Li, B., Zhang, Y., Han, F., and Joyce, W. J., 2025, Taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny of a nearly complete nanhsiungchelyid specimen from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, China: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144.48, 11pp. Link to pdf

Kim, M,. Jung, J., Joyce, W. G., Park, J.-I., Jung, H.-Y., Jo, H., and Huh, M., 2025, A new, Early Cretaceous carettochelyid turtle from South Korea providesinsights into softshell evolution and aquatic ecology: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, . v 144:75, 23pp. (Byeolijubuchelys yeosuensis) Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Perez-Garcia, A., 2025, A taxonomic revision of the Cenomanian bothremydid turtle Algorachelus parva from Iseral and morphological variation within its genus: Palaeontologia Eectronica,v . 28,n . 1: a2, 15pp.(Algorachelys parva = Podocnemis parva, = Podocnemis judea)

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Sarda, M., and Maniel, I. J., 2025, A new species of Elkanemys (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Portezuelo Formation (Turonian-Coniacian) of Patagonia, Argentina: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 19pp. (Elkanemys caelestis)

(Smith, H. F., Adrian, B., and Kline, P., 2025, A novel marine turtle (Pan-Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae) from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of north central Texas, U.S.A: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144: 23, 17pp. (Asmodochelys parhami) Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Szczygielski, T., Drozdt, D., Chanthasit, P., Manitkoon, S., Ditbanjong, P, 2025, The Triassic turtle of Thailand - revision of 'Proganochelys' ruchae: PLOS One,  v. 20, n. 3: e0316338, 52 pp. (Thaichelys ruchae = Proganochelys ruchae) Link to pdf

 Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Tyborowski, D., and Sienkiewicz, G., 2025, Palaeopathologies in Upper Jurassic turtle shells - thier origin and significance for the evolution of biotic interactions: Lethaia, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf


 Diapsida (Lower Lepidosauromorphs)

Genus: Nova (2)

Akkedops MOONEY, SCOTT & REISZ, 2025

Mirasaura SPIEKMAN, FOTH, ROSSI, MARTIN, SLATER, ENRIGHT, DOLLMAN, SERAFINI, SEEGIS, GRAUVOGEL-STAMM, McNAMARA, SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

Species: Nova (3)

Akkedops bremneri MOONEY, SCOTT & REISZ, 2025

Marmoretta drescherae GULLAUME, PUERTOALS-PASCUAL & MORENO-AZANZA, 2025

Mirasaura grauvogeli SPIEKMAN, FOTH, ROSSI, MARTIN, SLATER, ENRIGHT, DOLLMAN, SERAFINI, SEEGIS, GRAUVOGEL-STAMM, McNAMARA, SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

Ashworth, J., 2025, Early British lizard relative among the first known to climb trees: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Buffa, V., Jalil, N.-E., Falconnet, J., and Vincent, P., 2025, The neodiapsid Thadeosaurus colcanapi from the upper Permina of Madagascar: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, Part 2, e70008, 74pp. Link to pdf

Buffa, V., Gonet, J., van de Kamp, T., Zuber, M, Gironodont, M., Frey, E., Steyer, J.-S., and Laurin, M., 2025, Morphology and osteo-histology of the weigeltisaurid wing: implications for aerial locomotion in the world's first gliding reptiles: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 30pp. Link to pdf

Buffa, V., Jenkins, X. A., and Benoit, J., 2025, Galesphyrus capenisis from he Permian of South Africa adn the origin of Neodiapsida: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 2563582, 36pp. Link to pdf

Caldwell, M. W., Brownstein, C. D., Meyer, D. L, Scarpettea, S. G., Lee, M. S. Y., and Simoes, T. R., 2025, Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate: eLife, publisehd online, 23pp. Link to pdf

Fontanarrosa, G,. Dos Santos, D. A., and Rasskin-Gutman, D., 2025, Phalangeal formula, topological insights, and symmetry in the manus of Lepidosauria: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, v. 40, n. 1, p. 115-124. Link to pdf

Guillaume, A. R. D., Puertolas-Pascual, E., and Moreno-Azanza, M., 2025, Revisiting the choristodere and stem-lepidosaur specimens of the Guimarota Beds (Kimmeridgian, Portugal): taxonomic implications: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n . 1, p 77-96. (Marmoretta drescherae) Link to pdf

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Mooney, E. D., Scott, D., and Reisz, R. R., 2025, A new stem saurian reptile from the late Permian of South Africa and insights into saurian evolution: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:10, 27pp. (Akkedops bremneri) Link to pdf

Riccetto, M., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., de Jaime-Soguero, C., de Esteban-Trivigno, S., and Fortuny, J., 2025, Tooth morphotypes shed light on the paleobiodiversity of Middle Triassic terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems from NE Iberian Peninsula (Southwestern Europe): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 39-62.  Link to pdf

Scharling, T. H., Roberts, A. J., Foffa, D, Engelschion, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Dental and dietary disparity among marine vertebrats from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard-life bites the dust, or a new hope? Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 205, 303504, 45pp. Link to pdf

Sodano, M P., Kligman, B. T., Marsh A. D., Pritchard, A. C., Stocker, M. R., Parker, W. G., Goncalves, G. S., and Nesbitt, S. J., 2025, Gross anatomy and histological analysis of manual unguals of Drepanosauromorpha (Sauropsida: Diapsida) adn description of a new taxon from the Sonsel Member of the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic) of the southwestern United States: The Anatomical Record, publsiehd online , 35pp. (Fabanychus monos)

Spiekman, S. N. F., Foth, C., Rossi, V., Martin, C. G., Slater, T. S., Enright, O. G. B., Dollman, K. N., Serafini, G,. Seegis, D., Grouvogel-Stamm, L., McNamara, M. E., Sues, H.-D., and Soch, R. R., 2025, Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles: Nature, published online, 8pp. (Mirasaura grauvogeli) Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Weeks, O. J., Cooper, R. B., Whiteside, D. I., Duffin, C. J., Copp, C., Hildebrandt, C,. Hutchinson, D., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf


Lizards and Snakes

Genus: Nova (4)

Bolg WOOLLEY, SERTICH, MELSTROM, IRMIS & SMITH, 2025

Breugnathair BENSON, WALSH, GRIFFITHS, KULIK, BOTHA, FERNANDEZ, HEAD & EVANS, 2025

Garamaudo BARDET, ALEXANDRA, PELISIER, DUTOUR, TURINI & TORTOSA, 2025

Oneirosaurus PARAMO-FONESCA, NARVAEZ-RINCON & BENAVIDES-CABRA, 2025

Species: Nova (4)

Breugnathair elgolensis BENSON, WALSH, GRIFFITHS, KULIK, BOTHA, FERNANDEZ, HEAD & EVANS, 2025

Bolg amondol WOOLLEY, SERTICH, MELSTROM, IRMIS & SMITH, 2025

Garamaudo bauciensis BARDET, ALEXANDRA, PELISIER, DUTOUR, TURINI & TORTOSA, 2025

Oneirosaurus caballeroi PARAMO-FONESCA, NARVAEZ-RINCON & BENAVIDES-CABRA, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Bolg amondol: new monstersaur revels complex evolutionary history of giant Gila monser relatives: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

 Anonymous, 2025, Jurassic reptile fossil discovry blurs the line between snake and lizard: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Sea reptile's tooth shows that mosasaurs could live in freshwater: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Bardet, N., Houssaye, A., Pelissier, F.L., Dutour, Y., Turini, E., and Tortosa, T., 2025, Garamaudo bauciensis, a new freshwater mosasauridae (Reptilia, Squamata) from teh Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Provence, southeatern France: BioRxiv preprint, published online, 40pp. (Garamaudo bauciensis) Link to pdf

Benson, R. B. J., Walsh, S. A., Griffiths, E. F., Kulik, Z. T., Botha, J., Fernandez, V., Head, J. J., and Evans, S. E., 2025, Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate: Nature, publihsed online, 7pp. (Breugnathair elgolensis) Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

During, M. A. D., Van Vranken, N., Boyd, C. A., Ahlberg, P. E., Warmerdam-Verdegaal, S. J. A., and Van der Lubbe, J. H. J. L., 2025, "King of the Riverside", a multi-proxy approach offers a new perspective on mosasurs before thier extinction: BMC Zoology, 10:24, 11pp. Link to pdf

Goolaerts, S., 2025, Predator-prey dynamics in a latest Cretaceosu marine ecosystem: mosasaur and shark attacks on the echinoid Hemipneustes striatoradiatus from the Maastrichtina type area (the Netherlands, Belgium): Geologica Belgica, v. 28, n. 3-4, p. 133-146. Link to pdf

Holwerda, F. M., Mitchell, M. T., van de Kerk, M., and Schulp, A. S., 2024, Mosasaur feeding ecology from the Campanian Bearpaw Formation, Alberta, Canada: A preliminary multi-proxy approach: Diversity, v. 17, 205, 14pp. Link to pdf

Fischer, V., Roge, A., Cottereau, R., Dalla Giustina, F., Laboury, A., Scavezzoni, I, and MacLare, J. A. 2025, Predicting body length and assessing the shape of tail-propelled Mesozoic marine reptiels: Biology Letters, v. 21:2050374, 10pp.

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K., Bown, P., and Twitchett, R. J., 2025, The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom: Plos One, v. 20, n. 4: e0320945, 20pp. Link to pdf

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K,. Bown, P, adn Twitchett, R. J., 2025, Correction: The evoution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceosu Chalk Group of teh United Kingdom: Plos One, v. 20, n. 5: e-326451, 10pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, J., Bi, S.-d., Dai, R.-m., and Dong, L.-p., 2025 Taxonomy and phylogeny of Polyglyphanodontia (Squamata): a comprehensive review: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 64, n. 1, p. 84-99. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Longrich, N. R., Bardet, N, Jalil, N.-E., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Schulp, A., and Ghamizi, M., 2025, New information on the morphology and tooth replacement of Xenodens calminechari (Squamata: Mosasauridae), a unique mosasaurid from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco: Divrsity, v. 17, 819, 17pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Paramo-Fonesca, M. E., Navarez-Rincon, A., and Benavides-Cabra, C. D., 2025, Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., a new mosasaur from Colombia: Earth Sciences Reserch journal, v. 29,n . 3, p. 231-247. (Oneirosaurus caballeroi) Link to pdf

Petermann, H., and Lyson, T. R., 2025, Squamate fauna from the Denver Basin shows major ecosystem disruption across K/Pg boundary: Proceedings of the Royal Socity, Series B., v. 292: 20251234, 11pp.

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Rempert, T. H., and Martines, B. P., 2025, On the supposed presence of Prognathodon solvayi in the Demopholis Chalk: Mesozoic, v. 2, n. 2, p. 139-141. Link to pdf

Sambuichi, T., Tsunogai, U., and Nakagawa, F., 2025, Reconstructing the body temperature of extinct marine reptiles: Progress in Earth and Plantary Science, 12:87, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Shelton, J., 2025, Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water? Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Simoes, T. R., Tollis, M., and Burbrink, F. T., 2025, Origion and early evolution of squamates and their kin: from fossils to genomens: Annual Review of Eacology, Evolution, and Systematics, v. 56, p. 265-290. Link to pdf

Song, Y., and Lindgren, J, 2025, Convergence in aquatic locomotion: reconstructing mosasaurian (Squamata: Mosasauria) tail fins from osteological correlates and covariation with extatn sharks: Paleobiology, published online, 10pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2530718, 16pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e2530718, 16pp.

Woolley, C. H., Bottjer, D. J., and Smith, N. D., 2025, Taphonomic megabiases contrain phylogenetic information in the squamat fossil record: Paleobiology, published online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Woolley, M. R., Caldwell, M W., Rey, K., Amiot, R., and Chinsamy, A., 2025, A multi-method approach to deciphering the paleobiology of a mosasaur from South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44,n . 6, e2486069, 15pp.

Woolley, C. H,. Serticl, J. J. W., Melstrom, K. M., Irmis, R. B., and Smith, N. D., 2025, New monstersaur specimens from Kaiparowits Formation of Utah reveal unexpected richness of large-bodied lizards in Late Cretaceous North America: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 250435, 61pp. (Bolg amondol) Link to pdf


Sphenodonts

Genus: Nova (1)

Sphenodraco BECCARI, GUILLAUME, JONES, VILLA, COOPER, REGNAULT & RAUHUT, 2025

Species: Nova (1)

Sphenodraco scandentis BECCARI, GUILLAUME, JONES, VILLA, COOPER, REGNAULT & RAUHUT, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Diggin into the origin of lizards: ancient fossil shows only one of three predicted ancestal traits: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Beccari, V., Guillaume, A. R. D., Jones, M. E. H., Villa, A., Cooper, N., Regnault, S. and Rauhut, O. W. M., 2025, An arboreal rhynchocephalian form the Late Jurassic of Germany, and the importance of the appendicular skeleton for ecomorphology in lepidosaurs: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204, published onlien, 39pp. (Sphenodraco scandentis) Link to pdf

Beccari, V., Villa, A., Jones, M. E. H., Ferreira, G. S., Glaw, F., and Rauhut, O. W. M., 2025, A juvenile pleurosaurid (Lepidosuria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Tithonian of the Mornsheim Formation, Germany: The Anatomical Record, v. 308, p. 844-867. Link to pdf

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Marke, D., Whiteside, D. I., Setapanichsaakul, T., Coram, R. A., Fernandez, V., Liptak, A., Newham, E., and Benton, M. J., 2025, The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adapations: Nature, published online, 13pp.  (Ariodontosaurus helsbypetrae) Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf


Ichthyosaurs

Genus: Nova (5)

Eternauta CAMPOS, FERNANDEZ, HERRERA & TALEVI, 2025

Fernatator MASSARE, EDMUNDS, MORRIS, POULTON, PAN & MALLON, 2025

Gadusaurus SOUSA, ROLDAO, RIOS & PUERTOLAS-PASCULA, 2025

Lentamanusuchus QIAO, IIJIMA & LIU, 2025

Xiphodracon LOMAX, MASSARE & MAXWELL, 2025

Species: Nova (6)

Eternauta patagonica CAMPOS, FERNANDEZ, HERRERA & TALEVI, 2025

Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis SPICHER, MIEDEMA, HEIJNE & KLEIN, 2025

Fernatator prenticei MASSARE, EDMUNDS, MORRIS, POULTON, PAN & MALLON, 2025

Gadusaurus aqualigneus SOUSA, ROSOUSA, ROLDAO, RIOS & PUERTOLAS-PASCULA, 2025

Lentamanusuchus hubeiensis QIAO, IIJIMA & LIU, 2025

Xiphodracon goldencapensis LOMAX, MASSARE & MAXWELL, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, New ichthyosaur species with robust ribs discovered in Jurassic clay pit: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Oldest oceanic reptile ecosystems from the age of dinosaurs found on Arctic island: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, Ancietn bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Campos, L., Fernandez, M. S., Herrera, Y., and Talevi, M., 2025, Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov." a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur form the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implicaitons: Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 24pp. (Eternauta patagonica)

Delsett, L. L., Faure-Brac, M,. Engelschion, V. S., Houssaye, A., Chinsamy, A., hurum, J. H., and Kear, B. P., 2025, Vertebral microstructure marks the emergernce of pelagic ichthyosaurs soon after the end Permian mass extinction: Scientific Reports, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Fischer, V., Roge, A., Cottereau, R., Dalla Giustina, F., Laboury, A., Scavezzoni, I, and MacLare, J. A. 2025, Predicting body length and assessing the shape of tail-propelled Mesozoic marine reptiels: Biology Letters, v. 21:2050374, 10pp.

Fischer, V., Weis, R., Delsate, D. F., Giustina, F. D., Wintgens, P., Fuchs, D., and Thuy, B., 2025, Vampyromorph coleoid predation by an ichthyosaurian from the Early Jurassic Lagerstatte of Bascharage, Luxenbourg: PeerJ 13:e19786 http://doi.org/107717/peerj.19786, 19pp. Link to pdf

Jain, S., Salamon, M. A., Klug, C, Lomax, D. R., Plachno, B. J., and Duda, P., 2025, An unusual predator-prey relationshp inferred from a Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) natulid from soutehrn Poland: Lethaia, publihsed online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K., Bown, P., and Twitchett, R. J., 2025, The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom: Plos One, v. 20, n. 4: e0320945, 20pp. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320945">Link to pLink to pdf

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K,. Bown, P, adn Twitchett, R. J., 2025, Correction: The evoution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceosu Chalk Group of the United Kingdom: Plos One, v. 20, n. 5: e-326451, 10pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Klein, N., Lehmann, J., Heijne, J,. Li, Q., Blouet, J.-P., Winkelhorst, H,. and Sander, M. P., 2025, Primary coarse cancellous bone in Grippia longirostris and another ichthyosaurifrom from the Lower Triassic of Svalbard: Lethaia, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Lindgren, J., Lomax, D. R., Szasz, R.-Z., Marx, M., Revstedt, J., Goltz, G., Sachs, S., De La Garza, R. G., Heingard, M., Jarenmakr, M, Ydstrom, K., Sjovall, P., Osbaeck, F, Hall, S A., de Beeck, M. O., Eriksson, M. E., Alwmark, C., Marone, F., Lipstak, A,. Atwood, R., Burca, G, Uvdal, P., Persson, P., and Nilsson, D.-E., 2025, Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur: Nature, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Lomax, D. R., Massare, J. A., and MAxwell, E. E., 2025, A new long and narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 22, part 5, e70038, 23pp. (Xiphodracon goldencapensis) Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Ichthyosaur ancestors - the case against a diapsid origin of ichthyosaur revisited: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 31pp.

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Marsh, J., 2025, Fossil discovery reveals ancient giant marine reptile relied on stealth while hunting in darkness: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Marsh, J., 2025, Rare Jurassic 'sword dragon' prehistoric reptile discovered in the UK: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Martinez-Motta, M. F., Cortes, D., Maxwell, E. E., Noe, L. F., Alfonso-Rojas, A., Parra-Ruge, F. H., and Cadena, E.-A., 2025, Soft-tissue preservation in an ichthyosaur from the lower Cretaceous (Barremian - Aptian) of Colombia: Cretaceous Research, published online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Massare, J. A., Edmunds, M., Morris, R. J., Poulton, T. P., Pan, S. E., and Mallon, J. C., 2025, The most complete early Jurassic ichthyosaur from North America: Paludicola, v. 15, n. 2, p. 86-99. (Fernatator prenticei) Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Motani, R., Pyenson, N. D., and Jiang, D.-y., 2025, Was Hupehsuchus a baleen whale-style filter feeder in the Early Triassic? A re-examination of the evidence: PeerJ 13:e19666 DOI 10.7717/peerj.19666, 29pp. Link to pdf

Pardo-Perez, J. M., Malkowski, M., Zambrano, P., Lomx, D. R., Martin, C. G., Kaluza, J., Ortiz, H,. Marin, A. P., Villa-Martinez, R,. Yurrac, M, Caceres, M., Zegers, A., Delgado, J., Scapini, F., Astete, C., and Maxwell, E. E., 2025, The first gravid ichthyosaur from the Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous): a complete Myobradypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927 excavated from the border of the Tyndall Glacier, Torres del Paine National Park, southernmost Chile: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2445705, 5pp. Link to pdf

Pardo-Perez, J. M., Malkowski, M., Zambrano, P., Lomx, D. R., Martin, C. G., Kaluza, J., Ortiz, H,. Marin, A. P., Villa-Martinez, R,. Yurrac, M, Caceres, M., Zegers, A., Delgado, J., Scapini, F., Astete, C., and Maxwell, E. E., 2025, The first gravid ichthyosaur from the Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous): a complete Myobradypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927 excavated from the border of the Tyndall Glacier, Torres del Paine National Park, southernmost Chile: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2445705, 5pp.

Qiao, Y., Iijima, M., and Liu, J., 2025, A new hupehsuchian (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) with widely sidely spaced autopodium from the marine Lower Triassic of South China: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 2560884, 8pp. (Lentamanusuchus hubeiensis) Link to pdf

Rix, A,. 2025, Mr Longman's hunter and collector: J. Edgar Young and the Queensland Museum: Memories of the Qeensland Museum, Nature, v. 66, p. 45-62. Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

Scharling, T. H., Roberts, A. J., Foffa, D, Engelschion, V. S., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Dental and dietary disparity among marine vertebrats from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard-life bites the dust, or a new hope? Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 205, 303504, 45pp. Link to pdf

Scofield, P., Young, G., and de Pietri, V., 2025, Discovery of rare new fossil sheds light on New Zealand's extinct dolphin-like reptiles: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Seon, N., Vincent, P., Delsett, L L., Poulallion, E., Suan, G., Lecuyer, C., Roberts, A. J., Fourel, F., Charbonnier, S., and Amiot, R., 2025, Reassessment of body temperature adn thermoregulation stategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles: Paleobiology, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Shelton, J., 2025, Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water? Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Sousa, J. P. E., Roldao, I. M., Rios, M., and Puertolas-Pascual, E., 2025, A new ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Portugal (Iberian Peninsula): Acta Palaeontologica Poloncia, v. 70, n. 1, p. 179-192. (Gadusaurus aqualigneus) Link to pdf

Spicher, G. E., Miedema, F., Heijne, J., and Klein, N., 2025, A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosaurian) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany): Fossil Record, v. 28,n. 2, p. 249-291. (Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis) Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Weeks, O. J., Cooper, R. B., Whiteside, D. I., Duffin, C. J., Copp, C., Hildebrandt, C,. Hutchinson, D., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset: Dating the fissures: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Werynski, L., Blazejowski, B., Szczgielski, T., and Kajdas, B., 2025, A highly articulated Early Jurassic ichthyosaur, Stenopterygius, from the historical collection of the Jagiellonian University, Poland: Geological Quarterly, v. 69, n. 24, 11pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2530718, 16pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e2530718, 16pp.

Young, G. R. A., Scofield, P., Reid, C M., Mannering, A., and Crampton, J. S., 2025, A platypterygiid ichthyosaur from the Cenomanian of central New Zealand; Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 2, e2408391, 16pp.

Zhao, B., You, Y., li, J., Chen, G., Wan, S., Yuan, J., and Wu, K., 2025, A new cranium material of the Early Triassic Hupehsuchus nanchangensis (Diapsida: Hupehsuchia) with a further study: Acta Geologica Sinica, v. 99, n. 2, p. 337-351. Link to pdf


Sauropterygians and Placodontians

Genus: Nova 4)

Boyacasaurus sumercei BENAVIDES-CABRA, GARAVITO-CAMACHO, PARAMO-FONSECA & POMAR, 2025

Carinthiasaurus KLEIN, FURRER, DOJEN, LUKENEDER & SCHEYER, 2025

Lijiangosaurus WANG, SHANG, WANG, ZI & LI, 2025

Traskasaura O'KEEFE, SMITH, CLARK, OTERO, PERELLA & TRASK, 2025

Species: Nova 4)

Boyacasaurus sumercei BENAVIDES-CABRA, GARAVITO-CAMACHO, PARAMO-FONSECA & POMAR, 2025

Carinthiasaurus kandutschi KLEIN, FURRER, DOJEN, LUKENEDER & SCHEYER, 2025

Lijiangosaurus yougshengensis WANG, SHANG, WANG, ZI & LI, 2025

Traskasaura sandrae O'KEEFE, SMITH, CLARK, OTERO, PERELLA & TRASK, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Plesiosaur discovery sheds light on early Jurassic evolution and plausible endemism: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: one of North America's most famous fossils identified as new species: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pLink to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, Ancietn bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Aspromonte, F. R., and O'Gorman, J. P., 2025, Assessing the effect of sampling proxies on plesiosaur taxic diveristy with comments on implicaitons for Mesozoic samping design: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 397-410. Link to pdf

Benavides-Cabra, C. D., Garavito-Camacho, R. A., Paramo-Fonseca, M. E., and Pomar, D. E., 2025, Anew brachaucheniine pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) from the upper Aptian of villa de Leyva, Boyaca, Colombia: Historicla Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 27pp. (Boyacasaurus sumercei)

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Cabezuelo-Hernandez, A., de Miguel Chaves, C., Ortega, F., and Perez-Garcia, A., 2025, Pathological vertbrae in the holotype of idraco multidentatus (Sauropterygia, Simosauridae) from the Upper Traissic of El Atance (Central Spain): Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 1, p. 133-145. Link to pdf

Cowan, M. B., de Rafelis, M,. Segalen, L., Kear, B. P., Dumont, M., and Zigaite, Z., 2025, Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains: PeerJ 13:e18763 DOI 10.7717/poeerj.18763, 24pp. Link to pdf

During, M A. D., Matelsky, J. K., Gustafsson, F. K., Voeten, D. F. A. E., Chen, D., Wester, B. A., Kording, K. P., Ahlberg, P. E., and Schon, T. B., 2025, Automated segmetation of synchrotron-scanned fossils: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 1, p. 103-114. Link to pLink to pdf

Garcia-Guerrero, J., Ruge, F. P., Prieto, G. A., and Cadena, E.-A., 2025, Evidence of large pliosaurids in the late Valanginian of Colombia: Cretaceous Reserach, v. 178: 106235, 10pp. Link to pdf

Gordon, C. M., Freisem, L. S., Griffin, C. T., Gauthier, J. A., and Bhullar, B.-A. S., 2025, Limg proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes; Current Biology, v. 35, 17pp. Link to pdf

Jain, S., Salamon, M. A., Klug, C, Lomax, D. R., Plachno, B. J., and Duda, P., 2025, An unusual predator-prey relationshp inferred from a Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) natulid from soutehrn Poland: Lethaia, publihsed online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Jamison-Todd, S., Witts, J. D., Jones, M. E. H., Tangunan, D., Chandler, K,. Bown, P, adn Twitchett, R. J., 2025, Correction: The evoution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceosu Chalk Group of teh United Kingdom: Plos One, v. 20, n. 5: e-326451, 10pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Klein, N., Furrer, H., Dojen, C., Lukeneder, A, and Schyer, T. M., 2025, A new nothosaurid taxon from the Middle Triassic of Carinthia, Austria: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, v, 118, p. 141-155. (thiasaurus kandutschi) Link to pdf

Kinzella, Z. C., Cotton, L. J., and Delsett, L. L., 2025, New plesiosaur fossils from the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Bornholm, including the first juvenile specimen form Denmark: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, v. 74, p. 197-208. Link to pdf

Kirkland, J. I., King, M. R., and Bylund, K. G., 2025, Revisiting the Cretaceous Mancos Group in Utah - problems, previous methods, and new perspectives on a world-class Cretaceous marine section: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 75-154. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Liu, Q., Cheng, L., Stubbs, T. L., Fang, Z., Tian, L., Yan, C., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Traissic sauropterygian implications from a new juvenile specimen of Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis (Reptilia: Diapsida): Zoological Journal of the Linnean Soiety, v. 205, n. 1, dlaf126, 13pp. Link to pdf

London, E. H., Voeten, D. F. A. E., Blom, H., and Scheyer, T. M., 2025, The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography: PeerJ 13:e19932 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19932,35pp. Link to pdf

Ma, X.-h., Qin, Y.-j., He, X., Yu, M.-y., Luo, Y.-m,Tain, L., and Yang, Y.-n., 2026, Ontogenetic character analysis of the Middle Triassic Lariosaurus youngi (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Guizhou: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 64, n. 4, p. 399-410.

Marx, M,. Sachs, S., Kear, B. P., Eriksson, M. E., Nilkens, K., and Lindgren, J., 2025, A new specimen of Pleisopteryx wildi reveals the diversification of cryptoclidian precursors and possible endemism within European Early Jurassic plesiosaur assemblages: PeerJ 13:e18960 DOI 10.7717/peerj.18960, 33pp. Link to pdf

Marx, M., Sjovall, P., Kear, B. P., Jarenmark, M., Eriksson, M. E., Sachs, S., Nikens, K., De Beeck, M. O., and Lindgren, J., 2025, Skin, scalse, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur: Current Biology, v. 35, 8pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nosotti, S., Confortini, F., and Maganuco, S., 2025, A new specimen of Macroplacus raeticus Schubert-Klempnauer, 1975 (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Italy, with remarks on placodont phylogeny: Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 3, p. 687-721. Link to pdf

O'Gorman, J. P., and Benson, R. B. J., 2025, A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian-lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 613-628. Link to pdf

O'Keefe, F. R., Smith, E. A., Clark, R. O,. Otero, R. A., Perella, A., and Trask, P., 2025, A name for the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia: a strange new elasmosaur taxon from the Santoian of Vancouver Island: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 22, n. 1, 23pp. (Traskasaura sandrae) Link to pdf

Pereyra, M. E., O'Gorman, J., and Chinsamy, A., 2025, Osteohistology of the Maastrichtian, small-bodied elasmosaurid Kawanectes lafquenianum (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria): Journal of Anatomy, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Reguero, M. A., Hospitaleche, C A., O'Gorman, J. P., and Moly, J. J., 2025, The Antarctic fossil vertebrate collection of the Museo de la Plata: historical perspective of four decades of earth sciences investigations in Antarctica: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 248-277. Link to pdf

Renesto, S., and Magnani, F., 2025, Tetrapod remains from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) sceltric beds of Monte San Giorgio Unesco Site: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 201-212. Link to pdf

Renseto, S., Ragni, C., and Magnani, F., 2025, The first specimen with skin preserved of Lariosaurus (Eusauropterygia) from the Middle Triassci of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) allows inferences about its swimming method: Swiss Journal of Palaeontolgy, v. 144:56, 18pp. Link to pdf

Rix, A,. 2025, Mr Longman's hunter and collector: J. Edgar Young and the Queensland Museum: Memories of the Qeensland Museum, Nature, v. 66, p. 45-62. Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Etches, S., Horton, N., Marshall, J. E. A., Harding I., Rankin, K., and Gostling, N. J., 2025, Description of new Kimmerosaurus langhami (Cryptoclididae, Plesiosauria) material recovered from the Kimmeridge Clay Formaiton, Dorset, U.K.,: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2505520, 16pp. Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Etches, S., Horton, N., Marshall, J. E. A., Harding I., Rankin, K., and Gostling, N. J., 2025, Description of new Kimmerosaurus langhami (Cryptoclididae, Plesiosauria) material recovered from the Kimmeridge Clay Formaiton, Dorset, U.K.,: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2505520, 16pp.

Rucinski, M., Campos, H., Mateus, O., and Werneburg, I., 2025, Novel record of placodont remains including a Henodus cranium from the Upper Triassic Silves Group of the Algarve, southern Portugal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2460665, 23pp. Link to pdf

Rucinski, M., Campos, H., Mateus, O., and Werneburg, I., 2025, Novel record of placodont remains including a Henodus cranium from the Upper Triassic Silves Group of the Algarve, southern Portugal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 5, e2460665, 23pp.

Sachs, S., Madzia, D., Marz, M., Roberts, A. J., Hamep, O., and Kear, B .P., 2025, The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic placement of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris (Plesiosauroide, Microcelididae) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany: The Anatomical Record, published online, 64pp.

Seon, N., Vincent, P., Delsett, L L., Poulallion, E., Suan, G., Lecuyer, C., Roberts, A. J., Fourel, F., Charbonnier, S., and Amiot, R., 2025, Reassessment of body temperature and thermoregulation stategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles: Paleobiology, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Shelton, J., 2025, Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water? Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Shimada, K., Gonzales, P. B., Everhart, M. J., Liggett, G. A., Martin, D. J., and Schumacher, B .A., 2025, A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, southeastern Colorado, USA, with comments on the vertebrate assemblages at or near the contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, V. 128, n. 3-4, p. 180-200. Link to pdf

Su, C. X., Gu, S.-L., Jiang, D.-Y., Motani, R., Rieppel, O., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., and Sun, Z.-Y., 2024 (published 2025), Two new specimens of Glyphoderma kangi (Placodontia, Sauropterygia, Reptilia) from the Middle Triassic of China: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 3, e2539630, 11pp.

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Wang, W., Shang, Q., Wang, J., Zi, H., and Li, C., 2025, earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yougshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles: Commuications Biology, v. 8:1551, 11pp.  (Lijiangosaurus yougshengensis) Link to pdf

Wang, Y.n., Jiang, D.-y., Motani, R., Yao, M.-t., Ji, C., Sun, Z.-y., and Zhou, M., 2025, Skeletal ossification of Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur Keichousaurus hui (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) revealed by zinc distribution: PeerJ, 13:e19475, 24pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2530718, 16pp. Link to pdf

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e2530718, 16pp.

Xu, J., Guo, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, W., Cheng, L., and Han, F., 2025, New digital anatomical data of Keichousaurus hui (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) and its phylogenetic implication: PeerJ 13:e19012 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19012, 23pp. Link to pdf

Zverkov, N. G., and Meleshin, I. A., 2025, Enigmatic large-toothed Campanina polycotylid plesiosaurs with specific dietary preferences and potentially wide distribution: Journal of Palaeogeography, published on line, 15pp. Link to pdf


Lower Archosauromorpha

Genus: Nova (1)

Manistropheus EZCURRA, SUES & FROBISCH, 2025

Species: Nova (1)

Manistropheus kulicki EZCURRA, SUES & FROBISCH, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Triassic reptiles took, 10,000 mile trips through 'hellish' conditions, study suggests: Phys Org, pubslished online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Ezcurra, M. D., Sues, H.-D., and Fröbisch, J., 2025, A new late Permian archosauromorph reptile from Germany enhances our understanding of the early diversity of the clade: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 19pp. (Manistropheus kulicki) Link to pdf

Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Elsler, A., Fansworth, A., Lunt, D. J., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archoauromorph reptiles; Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Guillaume, A. R. D., Puertolas-Pascual, E., adn Moreno-Azanza, M., 2025, Revisiting the choristodere and stem-lepidosaur specimens of the Guimarota Beds (Kimmeridgian, Portugal): taxonomic implications: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n . 1, p 77-96. Link to pdf

Jackson, J., 2025, Triassic freshwater deposits at Petrified Forest preserve diverse tanystrophids: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kuzmin, I. T., and Vitenko, D. D., 2025, Middle ear anatomy and position of stapes in choristoderes (Reptlia: Neodiapsida): Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, v. 329, n. 4, p. 489-501. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Nesbitt, S. J., Marsola, J C. A., Evans, D. C., Sidor, C. A, Langer, M. C., and LeBlanc, A. R. H., 2025, The histology of rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) ankylothecodonty: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 15pp. Link to pdf

Morais, J. R., Müller, R. T., Kerber, L., and Pretto, F. A., 2025, A post-hatcling rhynchosaur from the Brazilian Triassic and the ontogenetic development of key characters within hyperodapedontinae: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, published online, 14pp.

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Renesto, S., and Magnani, F., 2025, Tetrapod remains from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) sceltric beds of Monte San Giorgio Unesco Site: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 201-212. Link to pdf

Riccetto, M., Mujal, E., Bolet, A., de Jaime-Soguero, C., de Esteban-Trivigno, S., and Fortuny, J., 2025, Tooth morphotypes shed light on the paleobiodiversity of Middle Triassic terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems from NE Iberian Peninsula (Southwestern Europe): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 39-62.  Link to pdf

Roberts, A. J., Rucinski, M., Kear, B. P., Hammer, Q., Engelschion, V. E., Scharling, T. H., Laresn, R. B., and Hurum, J. H., 2025, Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities: Science, 13 November, 2025, p. 722-727.

Schoch, R. R., Sues, H.-D., Sobral, G., Kurz, C., Gottmann-Quesada, A., and Spiekman, S. n. F., 2025, New data on the skull of Protorosaurus speneri (Reptilia: Archosauromoprha) and thier phylogenetic significance: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 20pp.

Steiner, G., 2025, Fossil vertebra reveals hidden diversity of ancient reptiles before Earth's largest mass extinction: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf


“Thecodontia, Pseudosuchia"

Genus: Nova (7)

Calamosuchus SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

Kuttysuchus HALDAR, RAY & BANDYOPADHYAY, 2024 (published 2025)

Retymaijychampsa MȔLLER, 2025

Taihangosuchus WU, KANG, SHI, YOU & DONG, 2025

Tainrakuasuchus MȔLLER, GARCIA, DAMKE, de BEM, de OLIVERIA FONSECA, DOERING, SCHIEFELBEIN & LASTE, 2025

Telkaralura von BACZKO, EZCURRA, LECUONA, VEGA & DESOJO, 2025

Thuringopelta SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

Species: Nova (6)

Kuttysuchus minori HALDAR, RAY & BANDYOPADHYAY, 2024 (published 2025)

Retymaijychampsa beckerorum MȔLLER, 2025

Taihangosuchus wuxiangensis WU, KANG, SHI, YOU & DONG, 2025

Tainrakuasuchus bellator MȔLLER, GARCIA, DAMKE, de BEM, de OLIVERIA FONSECA, DOERING, SCHIEFELBEIN & LASTE, 2025

Telkaralura coniceti von BACZKO, EZCURRA, LECUONA, VEGA & DESOJO, 2025

Thuringopelta werneburgi SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Calamosuchus arenaceus (FRAAS, 1896) SUES & SCHOCH, 2025

= Zanclodon arenaceus FRAAS, 1896

Anonymous, 2025, Earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile from Egypt reveals the African origins of seagoing crocs: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Predator was a precursor of the crocodile-and although it lived before the early dinosaurs, it looked just like one: Phys Org, publisehd online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Blaszczec, P., and Antczak, M., 2025, The histology and function of the dermal armour of the aetosaur Stagonolepis olenkae Sulej, 2010 (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from Krasiejow (SW Poland): Acta Geologica Polonica, v. 75, n. 1, e38, 18pp. Link to pdf

von Baczko, M. B., Ezcurra, M. D., Lecuona, A., Vega, N., and Desojo, J. B., 2025, A new large gracilisuchid from the Upper Triassic levels of Chanares Formation, northwestern Argentina: Ameghiniana, published online, 19pp. (Telkaralura coniceti) Link to pdf

Cotuli-Cereda, A., Agnolin, F. L., Garcia-Marsa J. A., and Novas, F. E., 2025, New insights on the tarsus of Chanaresuchus bonapartei Romer, 1971 (Archosauriformes) and its evolutionary implications: The Antomical Record, published online, 16pp.

Fitch, A. J., Akmmerer, C. F., and Nesbitt, S. J., 2025, First occurrences of Poposauroidea (Archosauria: Paracrocodylomorpha) from North Carolina expand thier geographic range in the Late Triassic: Palaeodiversity, v. 18, n. 2, 9pp. Link to pdf

Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Elsler, A., Fansworth, A., Lunt, D. J., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archoauromorph reptiles; Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Goldsmith, E. R., and Stocker, M. R., 2025, A detailed redescription of a skeletally immature "Redondasaurus' suggests ontogenetic transformations in the taxon mirror phytosaurian morphlogical evolution: The Anatomical Record, published online, 42pp. Link to pdf

Haldar, A., and Ray, S., 2025, First report of desmatosuchine aetosaur (Pseudosuchia, Aetosauriformes) osteoderms from the Upper Triassic Tiki Formaiton of India: thier complex internal vascular system, functional significance adn biosratigraphy: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 27p.

Haldar, A., Ray, S., and Bandyopadhyay, S., 2024 (published 2025), A new paratypothoracin aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic Dharmaram Formation of India and its biostratigraphic implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 3, e439533, 18pp. (Kuttysuchus minori)

Jesus, V. J. P., Mateus, O., Milna, J., and Clemmensen, l. B., 2025, Late Triassic small and medium-sized vertebrates from the Fleming Fjord Group of the Jameson Land Basin, central East Greenland: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a18, 29pp. Link to pdf

Jiang, D.-y., Tintori, A., Zhou, M., Motani, R., Ji, C., Rieppel, O., Fraser, N. C., Conedera, D., Yao, M.-t, Wang, Y.-n., and Sun, Z.-y., 2025, Vertbrate diversity of the Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Diversity, v. 17, 453, 26pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kufner, A. M., Deckman, M. E., Miller, H. R., So, C., Price, B. R., and Lovelace, D. M., 2025, A new metoposaurid (Temnospondyli) bonebed from the lower Popo Agie Formation (Carnian, Traissic) and an asessment of skeletal sorting: Plos One, v. 20, n. 4:e0317325, 30pp. Link to pdf

Lecunova, A., Keeble, E., Lin, Y., and Hutchinson, J. R., 2025, Hindlimb functinoal morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae): Journal of Anatomy, pubslihed online, 38pp. Link to pdf

Lopez-Rojas, V., Moreno-Azanza, M,. and Puertolas-Pascula, E., 2025, Systematic utility of the phytosaur post-dentary mandibular region: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 22, part 6, e79945, 23pp. Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., 2025, Stratigraphic position and age of the Upper Triassic Placerias Quarry, East-Central Arizona, USA: Fossil Studies, v. 4, n. 8, 22pp. Link to pdf

Mamani, C. A., Torttyn, M. J,. Novas, F. E., Desojo, J. B., and Ezcurra, M. D., 2025, Osteology of the skull of Tropidosuchus romeri (Arhosauriformes: Proterochampsidae): Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 250248, 48pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Müller, R. T., 2025, A new proterochampsid archosauriform from the Middle-Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70 n. 1, p. 7-16. (Retymaijychampsa beckerorum) Link to pdf

Müller, R. T., Garcia, M. S., Damke, L. v. S., de Bem, F. P., de Oliveria Fonseca, A., Doering, Schiefelbein, J. H., and Lste, V. Z. D., 2025, Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, publsihed online, 31pp. (Tainrakuasuchus bellator)

Numberger-Thuy, L. D., Delsate, D., Poschmann, M. J., Schindler, T., and Thuy, B., 2025, A new phytosaur-dominated vertebrate assemblage from the Late Triassic of the South Eifel region (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Reyes, W. A., Parker, W. G., Marsh, A. D., and Kligman, B. T., 2025, Cranial anatomy, intraspecific variation, and positional variation within Clayptosuchus wellesi (Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) based on new spcimens from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Adamanian, early middle Norian) of Peterified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA: Journal of Palenotology, published online, 39pp. Link to pdf

Sellers, K. C., Wilken, A. T., Cranor, C. R., Middleton, K. M., and Holliday, C. M., 2025, Quadrate orientation and joint reaction force underwent correlated evolution during suchian evolution: The Anatomical Record, published online, 12 pp. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, A doswellid archoauriform from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) Stuttgart Formation of Thuringia (Germany): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2455949, 8pp. (Thuringopelta werneburgi)

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. (Calamosuchus arenaceus = Zanclodon arenaceus) Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Wu, X.-C., Kang, Z.,Shi, J., You, H.-L., and Dong, L., 2025, Taihangosuchus wuxiangensis, a new gracilisuchid (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Middle Triassic of Shanxi Province, China: Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 36pp. (Taihangosuchus wuxiangensis)


Crocodilia (Mesosuchia, Eusuchia)

Genus: Nova (11)

Kostensuchus NOVAS, POL, AGNOLIN, de SOUA CARVALHO, MANABE, TSUIHIJI, ROZADILLA, LIO & ISASI, 2025

Paarthurnax holliensis PLATT, ADAMS & BROUCHU, 2025

Paranacaiman BONA, BARRIOS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025

Paranasuchus BONA, BARRIOS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025

Pattisaura WU, WITMER, CHATTERJEE & CUNNINGHAM, 2025

Pseudogavialis COURVILLE, METAIS, ANTOINE, MARIVAUX & JOUVE, 2025

Sissokosuchus WILBERG, HILL, PASCUCCI, ROBERTS, BOUARE & O'LEARY, 2025

Tewkensuchus BRAVO, POL, LEARDI, KRAUSE, NICHOLL, ROUGIER & MANNION, 2025

Thikarisuchus ALLEN, WILBERG, TURNER & VARRICCHIO, 2025

Thilastikosuchus de CARVALHO, dos SANTOS, PINTO & SANTUCCI, 2025

Varanosuchus POCHAT-COTTILLOUX, LAUPRASERT, CHANTHASIT, MANITKOON, ADRIEN, LACHAMBRE, AMIOT & MARTIN, 2025

Species: Nova (9)

Kostensuchus atrox NOVAS, POL, AGNOLIN, de SOUA CARVALHO, MANABE, TSUIHIJI, ROZADILLA, LIO & ISASI, 2025

Paarthurnax holliensis PLATT, ADAMS & BROUCHU, 2025

Paranacaiman bravardi BONA, BARRIOS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025

Pattisaura gracilis WU, WITMER, CHATTERJEE & CUNNINGHAM, 2025

Sissokosuchus maliensis WILBERG, HILL, PASCUCCI, ROBERTS, BOUARE & O'LEARY, 2025

Tewkensuchus salamanquensis BRAVO, POL, LEARDI, KRAUSE, NICHOLL, ROUGIER & MANNION, 2025

Thikarisuchus xenodentes ALLEN, WILBERG, TURNER & VARRICCHIO, 2025

Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis de CARVALHO, dos SANTOS, PINTO & SANTUCCI, 2025

Varanosuchus sakonnakhonensis POCHAT-COTTILLOUX, LAUPRASERT, CHANTHASIT, MANITKOON, ADRIEN, LACHAMBRE, AMIOT & MARTIN, 2025

Synonym: Nova (3)

Paranasuchus gasparinae (BONA & PAULINA-CARABAJAL, 2013) BONA, BARRIOS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025

= Caiman gasparinae BONA & PAULINA-CARABAJAL, 2013

Pseudogavialis curvirostris (LYDEKKER, 1886) COURVILLE, METAIS, ANTOINE, MARIVAUX & JOUVE, 2025

 = Gharialis curvirostris LYDEKKER, 1886

Rhamphosuchus pachyrhynchus  (LYDEKKER, 1886) COURVILLE, METAIS, ANTOINE, MARIVAUX & JOUVE, 2025

= Gharialis pachyrhynchus LYDEKKER, 1886

 

Albuquerque, A. S., Pinheiro, A. E. P., Ribeiro, T. B., Bergquvist, L. P., an Pereira, P. V. L. G. C., 2025, Crocoyliform diversity of the Acu Formation (Albian-Cenomanian), Potiguar Basin, Brazil: Geographical distribution and paleobiolgical implications: Papes in Paleontology,v 11, part 4, 17pp. Link to pd

Allen, H. J., Wilberg, E. W., Turner, A. H., and Varricchio, D. J., 2025, A new, diminutive, heterodont neosuchian from the Vaughn Member of the Blackleat Formation (Cenomanian), southwest Montana, and implications for the paleoecology of heterodont neosuchains: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, published online, e2542185, 44pp. (Thikarisuchus xenodentes)

Allen, H. J., Wilberg, E. W., Turner, A. H., and Varricchio, D. J., 2025, A new, diminutive, heterodont neosuchian from the Vaughn Member of the Blackleat Formation (Cenomanian), southwest Montana, and implications for the paleoecology of heterodont neosuchains: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, published online, e2542185, n. 45, n. 2, 44pp. (Thikarisuchus xenodentes)

Allen, R C., Chin, K., Zawaski, M,. Bevitt, J. J., and Smiglewski, W., 2025, Determining whether a phosphatic concretation containing a Cretaceous juvenile crocodylian is a coprolite or a non-fecal concretation: Scientific Reports, v. 15: 6436, 31pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Rare pterosaur fossil reveals crocodilian bite 76 million years ago: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Ancestors of today's crocodilians survived two mass extinction events: Study uncovers secret to thier longevity: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Giant croc-like carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, How changing limb posture helped ancient reptiles grow: Phys Org, publihed online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Aureliano, T., Maciel, V., Buck, P. V., Montefeltro, F. C., da S. Marinho, T., and Ghilardi, A. M., 2025, Histovariablity and fossil diagensis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil: The Anatomical Record, published online 13pp. Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Blas, X. P. I., Galobart, A., Archer, M., Stein, M., HAnd, Z., and Selles, A., 2025, Australia's oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2560010, 10pp.

Bona, P., Barrios, F., Ezcurra, M. D., Blanco, M. V. F., and Cidade, G. M., 2025, New taxa of giant caimans from the southernmost hyperdiverse wetlands of the South American late Miocene: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 22, n. 1, 27pp. (Paranacaiman bravardi, Paranasuchus gasparinae = Caiman gasparinae)

Bravo, G. G., Pol, D., Leardi, J. M,. Krause, J. M., Nicholl, C. S. C., Rougier, G., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, A new notosuchian crocodyliform from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia and the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K-pg mass extinction: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, n. 292: 20241980, 12pp. (Tewkensuchus salamanquensis) Link to pdf

Brown, C. M., Bell, P. R., Owers, H., and Pickles, B. J., 2025, A juvenile pterosaur vertebra with putative crocodilian bite from the Campanina of Alberta, Canada: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 10 pp. Link to pdf

de Carvalho, J. C., dos Santos, D. M., Pinto, R. L., and Santucci, R. M., 2025, Anatomical descritpion and systematics of a new notosuchian (Mesoeucrocodylia; Crocodyliformes) from the Quirico Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2452947, 17 pp. (Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis) Link to pdf

de Carvalho, J. C., dos Santos, D. M., Pinto, R. L., and Santucci, R. M., 2025, Anatomical descritpion and systematics of a new notosuchian (Mesoeucrocodylia; Crocodyliformes) from the Quirico Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2452947, 17 pp. (Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis)

Cornille, A., Beguesse, K., Wolff, E., Zinner, C., Asbach, P., Clarac, F., and Witzmann, F., 2025, Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs: Anatomical Record, published online, 27pp. Link to pdf

Courville, E., Metais, G., Antoine, P.-O., Marivaux, L., and Jouve, S., 2025, Giant longirostrine crocodylians from the Lower Miocene of Pakistan: new material and taxonomic review: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 3, e70010, 40 pp. (Rhamphosuchus pachyrhynchus = Gharialis pachyrhynchus, Pseudogavialis curvirostris = Gharialis curvirostris) Link to pdf

El-Degwi, E. S., AbdelGawad, M. K., Radwaan, S E., Sliem, R. E., Sileem, A., and Elhady, S. I. A., 2025, Evolutonary trend of the broad-snouted crocodile from the Eocene, Early Miocene and recent ones from Egypt: Scientific Reports, v. 15:9159, 26pp. Link to pdf

Enchelmaier, M., 2025, Tiny find, big picture, reconstructing the ecology of a bygone era:  In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 88-89.

Fischer, V., Roge, A., Cottereau, R., Dalla Giustina, F., Laboury, A., Scavezzoni, I, and MacLare, J. A. 2025, Predicting body length and assessing the shape of tail-propelled Mesozoic marine reptiels: Biology Letters, v. 21:2050374, 10pp.

Foret, T., Aubier, P., Jouve, S., and Cubo, J., 2025, Analysing thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity thorugh the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods: Palaeontology, published online, 32pp. Link to pdf

Gordon, C. M., Freisem, L. S., Griffin, C. T., Gauthier, J. A., and Bhullar, B.-A. S., 2025, Limg proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes; Current Biology, v. 35, 17pp. Link to pdf

Gorka, M., Brenzina, J., Chroust, M., Kowalski, R., Lopez-Torres, S., and Talanda, M., 2025, Crocodylian remains from the Miocene of the Fore-Carpathian Basin and its foreland--including the world's northernmost Neogene crocodylian: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 2, p. 225-251. Link to pdf

Hart, W. J., Atterholt, J., and Wedel, M. J., 2025, First occurrences of neural ridges in Crocodylia: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 749-753. Link to pdf

Hoffman, D. K., Goldsmith, E. R., houssaye, A., Maidment, S. C. R., Felice, R. N., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, Evolution of growth strategy in alligators and caimans informed by osteohistology ot the late Eocene early-diverging alligatoroid crocoydylian Diplocynodon hantoniensis: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Ilijma, M., Blob, R. W., and Hutchinson, J. R., 2025, Biomechanical simulations of hindlimb function in Alligator provide insights ito postural shifts and boyd size evolution: Science Advances, v. 11, eadx2911, 12pp. Link to pdf

Jain, S., Salamon, M. A., Klug, C, Lomax, D. R., Plachno, B. J., and Duda, P., 2025, An unusual predator-prey relationshp inferred from a Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) natulid from soutehrn Poland: Lethaia, publihsed online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Johnson, M. M., Mujal, E,. Cooper, S. L. A., and Maxwell, E. E., 2025, Criteria for inferring seafloor arrival position in teleosauroid carcasses (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) and comparison with other marine vertebrates: Geological Magazine, v. 162, e19, 18 pp. Link to pdf

Kasal, K., 2025, Ancient caiman may have preyed on another apex predator-the giant 'terror bird': Phys Org, published online, 3 pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kubota, K., and Tanaka, K., 2025, Newly discovered archosaur remains and charophyte gyrogonites from the Lower Cretaceous (lower to middle Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation at Tambasasayama and Taba cites, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan: Fossils, the Palaeontological Socity of Japan, v. 118, p. 35-50. Link to pdf

Kuzmin, I. T., Skutchas, P. P., and Sues, H.-D., 2025, Braincase of the earliest known alligatoroid (Crocodylomorpha; Crocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan: Proceedings of the Zoological institute RAS, v. 329, n. 4, p. 502-517. Link to pdf

De Lapparent de Broin, F., 2025, Description of a new specimen of the Late Cretaceous allodaposuchid crocodile Massaliasuchus affuvelensis (Matheron, 1869), with stratigraphic and palaeogeographic comments: Revue de Paleobiologie, Grneve, v. 44,n . 7, p. 1-43. Link to pdf

Lessner, E. J., Petermann, H., and Lyson, T. R., 2025, First record of Borealosuchus sternbergii from the Lower Paleocene Denver Formation (Lower Danian), Colorado (Denver Basin): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e243214, 21pp. Link to pdf

Lessner, E. J., Petermann, H., and Lyson, T. R., 2024 (published 2025), First record of Borealosuchus sternbergii from the Lower Paleocene Denver Formation (Lower Danian), Colorado (Denver Basin): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n . 3, e243214, 21pp.

Lopez, L. W. V., Velez-Juarbe, J., Munch, P., Milan, J. N. A., Antoine, P.-O., Marivaux, L., Jimenez-Vasquez, O., and Bloch, J., 2025, A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West indies ecosystem: Proceedings of the Roysla Society, Series, B., v. 292:20242891, 9pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Marechal, A., Rotatori, F., Merella, M., Puertolas-Pascual, E., Sequero, C,. Pereira, R., Nsungani, P., and Mateus, O., 2025, A new Maastrichtian hyposaurine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha) from Namibe province, Angolia: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204,n . 4, zlaf092, 19pp.

Marquina-Blasco, R., Morales-Flores, D., Bartolome-Bombin, A. D., and Montoya, P., 2025, Herptofaunal remains (Anura, Crocodylia, Testudines, Squamata) from the Late Miocene of the Crevillente area (SE Spain): palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications: Rivista Italinaa di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n .1, p. 85-115. Link to pdf

Martin, J. E., and Jattiot, R., 2025, First report of neosuchian remains in Aptian-Albian marine deposites of southeastern France: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influenceof tow centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Muscioni, M.,  Chiarenza, A. A., Nicholl, C. S. C., Perentin, T., Dreossi, D., and Fanti, F., 2025, A ziphodont crocodylomorph from Villaggio del Pescatore Lagerstatte (Campanian, Italy): Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 205, n. 4, zlaf171, 17pp. Link to pdf

Navarro, T. G., Cerda, I. A., Filippi, L. S., and Pol, D., 2025, Life history and growth dynamics of a peirosaurid crocodylomorph (Mesoeucrocodylia; Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina inferred from its bone histology: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nicholl, C. S. C., Burke, P. M. J., Marwood, E. M., Martin J. E., Mahboubi, M., Tabuce, R., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, A re-evaluation of the notosuchian crocodyliform Eremosuchus elkoholicsu from the lower Eocene of Algeria and the evolutionary and biogeographic history of sebecids: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e267964, 39pp. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Novas, F. E., Pol, D., Agnolin, F L,. de Souza Carvalho, I., Manabe, m., Tsuihiji, T., Rozadilla, S., Lio, G. L., and Isasi, M. P., 2025, A new large hypercarnivorous crocodyliform from the Maasrichtian of Southern Patagonia, Argentina: PLOS One, v. 20, n. 8: e0328561, 27pp. (Kostensuchus atrox) Link to pdf

Palazuelos, A., Narvaez, I., Hernandez, J. M., and Murelaga, X., 2025, Crocodylian remains the Early Miocene site of Monte la Pila, Ebro Basin, Spain: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, v. 40, n .2, 16pp. Link to pdf

Pellarin, R., Sena, M, Clarac, F., adn Cubo, J., 2025, Elucidating the thermometabolism of Thalattosuchus superciliousus (de Blainville) Young, Brigon, Sachs, Hornung, Foffa, Kitson, Johnson & Steel, 2021 (Archosauria: Metriorhynchidae): a paleohistological study: Comptes rendus Palevol, v. 24 n. 17, 333-344. Link to pdf

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Pinheiro, A. E. P., Pereira, P. V. L. G. C., Vasconcellos, F. M., Brum, A. S., de Souza, L. G., Costa, F. R., Castro, L. O. R., da Silva, K. F., and Bandeira,K. L. N., 2025, New Itasuchidae (Sebecia, Ziphosuchia) remains and the radiation of an elusive mesoeucrocodylia clade: Historical Biology, published online, 26pp.

Platt, N. C., Adams, T. L., and Brochu, C. A., 2025, A new neosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian, Albian) Holly Creek Formation of southwest Arkanasas and its impications on the relationships of Goniopholididae: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e2525843, 18pp. (Paarthurnax holliensis)

Pochat-Cottilloux, Y., Lauprasert, K., Chanthati, P., Manitkoon, S., Adrien, J., Lachambere, J,. Amoit, R., adn Martin, J. E., 2025, NEw Cretaceous neosuchians (Crocodylomorpha) from Thalian bridge the evolutionary histroy of atoposaurids and paralligatorids: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 202, 27pp. (Varanosuchus sakonnakhonensis)

Puertolas-Pascual, E., 2025, New dwarf crocodylomorph from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and the first neuroanatomical data for Atopodsauridae: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 321-346. Link to pdf

Rech, M,. 2025, Triassic life: an overview of ancient amphibians, crocodile relatives, early dinosaurs and mammalian ancestors: Phys Org, puboished online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Sellers, K. C., Wilken, A. T., Cranor, C. R., Middleton, K. M., and Holliday, C. M., 2025, Quadrate orientation and joint reaction force underwent correlated evolution during suchian evolution: The Anatomical Record, published online, 12 pp. Link to pdf

Sena, M. V. A., Montefeltro, F. C., Marinho, T. S., Langer, M. C., Fachini, T. S., Linheiro, A. E P., Machado, A. S., Lopes, R. T., Pellarin, R., Sayao, J. M., Oliveira, G.R., and Cubo, J., 2025, Revisition the aerobic capacity of Notosuchia (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia): Lethaia, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Seon, N., Vincent, P., Delsett, L L., Poulallion, E., Suan, G., Lecuyer, C., Roberts, A. J., Fourel, F., Charbonnier, S., and Amiot, R., 2025, Reassessment of body temperature adn thermoregulation stategies in Mesozoic marine reptiles: Paleobiology, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Serrano-Martinez, A., Lujan, A. H., Garcia-Perez, A., and Fortuny, J., 2025, New data on the inner skull cavities of Diplocynoodn tormis (Crocodylia, Diplocynodontinae) from the Duero Basin (Iberian Peninsula, Spain): Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 1, p. 67-77. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Spindler, F., and Kimmig, J, 2025, Kleine Schnaux, viel dahinter: fragment eines meereskrokodilis aus der Oberpfalz: Archaeopteryx, v. 40, p. 38-46. Link to pdf

Srinivas, A., Bright, J. A., Cunningham, J. A., Aparecida, S., Tavares, S., Ricardi-Branco, F., de Souza Carvalho, I., Iori, F. V., and Rayfield, E. J., 2025, Constaints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 292, 12pp. Link to pdf

Stein, M. D., 2025, 55 million years: Australia's oldest crocodile eggshells found in Queensland: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Stout, J. B., Massonne, T., Samuels, J. X., and Schubert, B. W., 2025, Small, enigmatic alligatorioid from the Middle Eocene Clarno Formation, John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 309-319. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Testin, J. J., and D'Amore, D. C., 2025, Clustering crocodylian dental morphology: Insights into functional adaptations, diet, and ontogeny: Journal of Anatomy, publisehd onlien 17pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. Link to pdf

Tullier, M., 2025, Decades-long quest leads to first scholarly accurate fossil replica of 'dinosaur-killer' croc: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Velez-Rosado, K. I., Zalles-Grebetskaya, O. I, Wilson Mantilla, J. A., Schoene, B., Maloof, A., and Howes, B., 2025, New material of Dolichochampsa minima (Archosauria: Crocodylia) from the Cretaceous-Palaeogene El Molino Formation of Boliva sheds light on the early evolution of Gavialinae: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, publihsed online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Walter, J. D., Massonne, T., Paiva, A. L. S., Martin, J. E., Delfino, M., and Rabi, M., 2025, Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocoydlian osmoregulation and body-size evolution: Communications Biology, v. 7: 611, 12pp. Link to pdf

Wang, L., Clark, J. M., Li, H., Ruebenstahl, A., and Bi, S., 2025, A new specimen of the early branching crocodyliform Platyognathus hsui extends the record of gobiosuchids back 67 million years: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204, zlaf032, 22pp.

White, J. M., Fischer, V., and McCurry, M. R., 2025, Measuring the load-bering capacity of Mesozoic Marine reptile teeth using finite element analysis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2530718, 16pp. Link to pdf

Wilberg, E., Hill, R. V., Pascucci, T. R., Roberts, E. M., Bouare, M. L., and O'Leary, M. A., 2025, A new itasuchid (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia) from the Early Cretaceous of Mali and the ancient paleo-tegama river systes of Gondwana: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 1, e2505520, 25pp.(Sissokosuchus maliensis)

Wu, X.-C., Witmer, L. M., Chatterjee, S., and Cunnigham, D., 2025, A new crocodylomorph (Pseudosuchia, Crocodylomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Texas and its phylogenetic relatinoships: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2446604, 40pp. (Pattisaura gracilis)

Young, M. T., Herrera, Y., Wilbeg, E., Sachs, S., Abel, P., and de Andrade, M. B., 2025, Case 3868 -Cricosaurus Wagner, 1858 (Reptilia, Crocodylomorpha, Metriorhynchidae): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Stenosaurus elegans Wgner, 1852 as the type species: Bulletin Zoological nomenclature, v. 82, p. 73-78. Link to pdf


Pterosaurs

Genus: Nova (10)

Bakiribu PEGAS, AURELIANO, HOLGADO, ALMEIDA, SANTOS & GHILARDI, 2025

Eotephradactylus KLIGMAN, WHATLEY, RAMEZANI, MARSH, LYSON, FITCH, PARKER & BEHRENSMEYER, 2025

Galgadraco GIARETTA, NAVARRO, MARINHO & PEGAS, 2025

Gobiazhdarcho PEGAS, ZHOU & KOBAYSHI, 2025

Infernodrakon THOMAS, HONE, GOMES & PETERSON, 2025

Makrodactylus HONE, LAUER, LAUER & SPINDLER, 2025

Nippanopterus ZHOU, IKEGAMI, PEGAS, YOSHINAGA, SATO, MUKUNOIK, OTANI & KOBAYASHI, 2025

Saratovia AVERIANOV, 2025

Spathagnathus FERNANDES, TISCHLINGER, ROTHGAENGER & RAUHUT, 2025

Tsogtopteryx PEGAS, ZHOU & KOBAYSHI, 2025

Species: Nova (11)

Bakiribu waridza PEGAS, AURELIANO, HOLGADO, ALMEIDA, SANTOS & GHILARDI, 2025

Darwinopterus camposi CHENG, JIANG, BANTIM, SAYAO, SARAIVA, MENG, KELLNER, & WANG, 2025

Eotephradactylus mcintirae KLIGMAN, WHATLEY, RAMEZANI, MARSH, LYSON, FITCH, PARKER & BEHRENSMEYER, 2025

Galgadraco zephyrius GIARETTA, NAVARRO, MARINHO & PEGAS, 2025

Gobiazhdarcho tsogtbatari PEGAS, ZHOU & KOBAYSHI, 2025

Infernodrakon hastacollis THOMAS, HONE, GOMES & PETERSON, 2025

Makrodactylus oligodontus HONE, LAUER, LAUER & SPINDLER, 2025

Nippanopterus mifunensis ZHOU, IKEGAMI, PEGAS, YOSHINAGA, SATO, MUKUNOIK, OTANI & KOBAYASHI, 2025

Saratovia glickmani AVERIANOV, 2025

Spathagnathus roeperi FERNANDES, TISCHLINGER, ROTHGAENGER & RAUHUT, 2025

Tsogtopteryx mongoliensis PEGAS, ZHOU & KOBAYSHI, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Brasileodactylus araripensis KELLNER, 1984

= Cearadactylus atrox LEONARDI & BORGOMANERO, 1985

Gnathosaurus subulatus MEYER, 1834

 = Pterodactylus micronyx MEYER, 1856

= Aurorazhdarcho primordius FREY, MEYER & TISCHLINGER, 2011

 Alhalabi, W. A., Pinheiro, F. L., Jaoude, I. B., Iismail, M J., Pereda Suberbiola, X., Bardet, n., and Lagner, M. C., 2025, Recovering lost time in Syria: a gigantic latest Cretceous azhdarchid pterosaru from the Palmyrides mountain chain: The Science of Nature, v. 112:78, 8pp.

Anonymous, 2025, Rare pterosaur fossil reveals crocodilian bite 76 million years ago: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, 150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Flightless ancestor shows brain evolution in pterosaurs and birds took different paths: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Antonietto, L. S., Hamid, I., Holgado, B., Rocha, A. L., Ferreira, M. A., Saraiva, A. A. F. de Lacrda, L. D., and da Silva, R. C., 2025, Reconstructing paleotrophic relationships on the Brazillian Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) through mercury analysis in fossils: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 13:1551085, 10pp. Link to pdf

 de Araujo, E. V., Cubo, J., de Araujo Sena, M. V., Bantim, R. A. M., Weinschutz, L. C., Kellner, A. W. A., and Sayao, J. M., 2025, Wing bone laminarity in pterosaurs: insights into torsional adaptations for flight evolution: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencas, v. 97, supplement 1, published online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Auerliano, T., Rocha, M. P. S., Lima-Filho, F. P., and Ghilardi, A. M., 2025, Histology and fossil diagensis of a pterosaur tooth from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous of Brazil): The Anatomical Record, published online, 13pp.

Averianov, A. O., 2025, A new ornithocheiran pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Saratov, Russia: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencas, v. 97, supplement 1, published online, 20pp. 13pp. (Saratovia glickmani) Link to pdf

Bantim, R. A. M., de Araujo, E. V., Araujo, A. F. S., de Lima, F. J., Sayao, J M., and de Oliveira, P. V., 2025, Extending the geographic range of pterosaurs in the Araripe Basin: first record from the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in Piaui, Brazil: Anais da Academia Brasieira de Ciencas, v. 97, supplement 1, 15pp.

Bennett, S. C., 2025, A review of the pterosaur Gnathosaurus subulatus from the Tithonian Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones of Germany: Taxonomy and ontogeny: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 22pp. (Gnathosaurus subulatus = Pterodactylus micronyx, = Aurorazhdarcho primordius)

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Bronzati, M., Watanabe, A., Benson, R. B. J., Muller, R. T., Witmer, L. M., Ezcurra, M. D., Montefeltro, F. C., von Beczko, M. B., Bhullar, B.-A. S., Desojo, J. B., Knoll, F., Langer, M. C., Lautenschlager, S., Stocker, M. R., Turner, A. H., Werneburg, I., Nesbitt, S. J., and Fabbri, M., 2025, Neuroanatomical convergence between pterosaurs and non-avian paravians in the evolution of flight: Current Biology, v. 35, 8pp. Link to pdf

Brown, C. M., Bell, P. R., Owers, H., and Pickles, B. J., 2025, A juvenile pterosaur vertebra with putative crocodilian bite from the Campanina of Alberta, Canada: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 10 pp. Link to pdf

Buchmann, R., and Rodrigues, T., 2025, Flesh and bone: the musculature and cervical movements of pterosaurs: Anais da Academia Brasileria do Sciences, v. 97, supplement 1, 45pp. Link to pdf

Buchmann, R., and Rodrigues, T., 2025, Resistance of cervical vertebrae in response to muscular stresses in pterosaurs: implications for foraging habits and skeltal pneumatization: PeerJ 13:e20388 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20388, 29pp. Link to pdf

Cadena, E.-A., Atuesta-Ortiz, D A., and Wilson Mantilla, J. A., 2025, New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 151, 9pp.

Canejo, L., Sayao, J. M., and Kellne,r A. W. A., 2025, Exploring the complex cranial morphology of Tupandactylus imperator (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) based on a new specimen: Anais da Academia Brasiliera de Ciencas, supplement 2, 17pp.

Ceroula, D. F., Pegas, R. V., Nascimento, A. S., Noguiera, A., and Costa, F. R., 2025, Athletic capablity index in pterosaurs: an initial assessment: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement no. 1, 16pp. Link to pdf

Cheng, X., Jiang, S., Bantim, R. A. M., Sayao, J. M., Saraiva, A. A. F., Meng, X., Kellner, A. W. A., and Wang, X., 2025, A new species of Darwinopterus (Wukongopteridae, Pterosauria) from western Liaoning provides some new infomraton on the ontogeny of this clade: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement 2, 11pp. (Darwinopterus camposi) Link to pdf

 Cooper, S. L. A., Smith, R. E., and Martill, D. M., 2025, Dietary tendencies of the Early Jurassic pterosaurs Campylognathoides Strand, 1928, and Dorygnathus Wagner, 1860, with additonal evidence for teuthophagy in pterosauria; Journal of Vertebrate Palaenotology, v. 44n. 2, e24035771, 15pp.

Costa, F. R., Mailho, M. X., Francisco, E. O., and Nunes, I., 2025, Gaining ground on pterosaur biomechanics: a general overview: Anais da Academial Brasiliera de Ciencas, v. 97, supplement 1, 41pp. Link to pdf

Enchelmaier, M., 2025, Tiny find, big picture, reconstructing the ecology of a bygone era:  In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 88-89.

Ezcurra, M. D., Fernandes, A. E., Roig, M,. and Von Backo, M. B., 2025, A revision of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Herbstosaurus pigmaeus Casamiquela, 1976 from the Late Jurassic of Argentina: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Cincas, v. 97, supplement 1, 17pp. Link to pdf

Fernandes, A. E., Tischlinger, H., Rothgaenger, M, and Rauhut, O. W. M., 2025, A new species of the earliest occurrence of the Gnathosaurinae (Pterosauria) from the Late Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Published online, 15pp. (Spathagnathus roeperi) Link to pdf 

Fialho, F. S. F., Santucci, R. M., Gomes, M. S., and do Carmo, D. A., 2025, First reoprt of pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous Quirico Formation, Sao Francisco Basin (Minas Gerais), Brazil: Anais da Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement 1, 17pp.

Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Elsler, A., Fansworth, A., Lunt, D. J., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archoauromorph reptiles; Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Foffa, D., Dunne, E. M., Chiarenza, A. A., Wynd, B. M., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Valdes, P. J., Nesbitt, S. J., Kligman, B. T., Marsh, A. D., Parker, W. G., Butler, R. J., Fraser, N. C., Brusatte, S. L., and Barrett, P. M., 2025, Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs: Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Garcia, M. S., and Müller, R. T., 2025, Triassic pterosaur precursors of Brazil: catalog, evolutionary context, and a new hypothesis for phylogenetic relationships of pterosauromorpha: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Cincas, v. 97, supplement 1, 22pp. Link to pdf

Giaretta, A. A., Navarro, B. A., Marinho, T S., and Pegas, R. V., 2025, The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil: Papers in Palonology, v. 11, part 5, 20pp. (Galgadraco zephyrius)

Hone, D., Lauer, R., and Lauer, B., 2025, Soft tissue anatomy of pterosaur hands and feet --new information from Solnhofen region pterodacytloid specimens: Lethaia, published online, 12pp.

Hone, D. W. E., Lauer, R., Lauer, B., and Spindler, F., 2025, A new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mornsheim Fromation of southern Germany: Palaentologia Electronica, v. 28, n . 3:a43, 21pp. (Makrodactylus oligodontus) Link to pdf

Hone, D., and Prondvai, E., 2025, The shape, structure, function, and evolution of the pterosaurian uropatagium: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement 1, 25 pp. Link to pdf

Jagielska, N., O'Sullivan, M., Butler, I. B., Challands, T. J., Funston, G. F., Ross, D,. Penny, A., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sagiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland: BMC Ecology and Evolution, published online, 25pp. Link to pdf

Kasal, K., 2025, New evidence from pterosaur's fosilized stomach helps settle lnogstanding debate about its diet: Phys Org, publihsed online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Kasal, K., 2025, New pterosaur species discovered in previously overlooked specimen of dinosaur regurgitalite: Phys Org, publihsed online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Kligman, B. T., Whatley, R. L., Ramezani, J,. Marsh, A. D., Lyson, T. R., Fitch, A., Parker, W. G., and Behrensmeyer, A .K., 2025, Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebraete community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end -Triassic extinction: Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, v. 122, n. 29, e205513122, 11pp. (Eotephradactylus mcintirae)

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Lu, X., Teng, F., Chen, Y,. Chen, X., Li, X., and Reisz, R., 2025, Micro-XRF chemical elementary analysis on the holotype of Sinopterus atavismus Lu, Teng, Sun, Shen, Li, Gao, Liu, 2016 (Pterodactylodea, Tapejaridae): Anais da Academia Brasilieira de Ciencas, Supplement 1, puslished online, 10pp.

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Theropods, Ornithischians and Pterosaurs from South Asia-review with new taxa: a look at paleontology, stratigraphy and mineral potential of Pakistan: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 1, p. 22-68.

Marugan-Lobon, J., 2025, Median-based resistant methods in the current framework of Geometric Morphometrics: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, publsihed online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Milan, J., Jakobsen, S. L., and Lindow, B. E. K., 2025, A diminutive pterosaur from the uppermost Maastrichtian chalk of denmark: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 723-730. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Numberger-Thuy, L. D., Delsate, D., Poschmann, M. J., Schindler, T., and Thuy, B., 2025, A new phytosaur-dominated vertebrate assemblage from the Late Triassic of the South Eifel region (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Ortiz-David, L. D., Gonzalez-Riga, B. J, Casal, G., Tomaselli, M. B., and Figueredo-Vieyra, I., 2025, Taphonomic analysis of Thanatosdrakon amaru (Pterodactylodea: Azhdarchoidea) and paleonenvironmental reconstruction of the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Neuquen basin), Mendoza, Argentina: Anais da Academia Brasileiria de Ciencas, v. 97, supplement 1, 32pp. Link to pdf

Pegas, R. V., 2025, On the systematics and phylogenetic nomenclature of the Ornithocheiriformes (Pterosauria, Pteranodontoidea): Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2: a 21pp. Link to pdf

Pegas, R. V., Aureliano, T,. Holgado, B,. Salmeida, W. B S., Santos, L. A., and Ghilardi, A. M., 2025, A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group: Scientific Reports, 15:37336, published online, 13pp. (Bakiribu waridza) Link to pdf

 Pegas, R. V., Nascimento, A. S., Piazentin, L. C., Pinheiro, F. L., Zhare, H., and Costa, F. R., 2025, Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: "Cearadactylus atrox' as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae): Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 11pp. (Brasileodactylus araripensis = Cearadactylus atrox) Link to pdf

Pegas, R. V., Zhou, X., adn Kobayashi, Y., 2025, Azhdarchid pterosaur diversity in the Bayanshiree Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia: PeerJ 13:e19711 DOI 10.7717/p11rj.19711, 33pp. (Gobiazhdarcho tsogtbatari, Tsogtopteryx mongoliensis) Link to pdf

Pili, N., Lowe, T. J., Margetts, L., Pickup, K., Sellers, W. I., Nicholls, E. L., Withers, P. J., and Manning, P. l., 2025, Harnessing 3D microarchitecture of pterosaur bone using multi-scale X-ray CT for aerospace material designh: Scientific Reports, publisehd online, 15pp. Link to pdf

Pinheiro, F. L., Kellner, A. W. A., da Silva, J. L., Duque, R. R. C., Sayao, J. M,. de Araujo, E. V., Costa, F. R., Buchmann, R. Cerqueira, G. M., Canejo, L., Becari, V., Bantim, R. A. M., Holgado, B., and Pegas, R. V., 2025, Cretaceous pterosaurs of Araripe Basin: a comprehensive taxonomic update and paleobiological insights: Anais da Academia Brasileria de Ciencas, supplement 1, 70pp.

Rivera-Sylva, H. E., hone, D. W. E., Aguillon-Martinez, M G., Guzman-Gutirrez, J. R., Morales-Flores, D., Sanchez-Uribe, I. E., Flores-Ventrua, J., and Vivas-Gonzalez, R., 2025, Pterosaurs (Pterosauria) from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Late Campanian) of Coahuila, Mezico: Paleo Vertebrata, pbuslihed online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Sena, M. V. A., Voeten, D. F A. E., Araujo, E., and Cubo, J., 2025, Femoral metadiaphyscal and nutrient foramen perfusion suggests comparable maximal metabolic rates in a pterosaur and in a semi-aquatic maniraptoran dinosaur: PeerJ 13:e19806 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19806, 15pp. Link to pdf

 Smith, R. E., and Martill, D. M., 2025, A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Portland Limestone Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian) of southern England: Proceedings of teh Geologists' Association, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Smyth, R. S. H., Belben, R., Thomas, R., and Unwin, D. M., 2025, Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage: Current Biology, v. 35, 14pp. Link to pdf

Song, J., Jiang, S., and Wang, X., 2025, Postcranial anatomy of Dsungaripterus weii (Pterosaura: Ornithocheiroidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Wuerho, China: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 2, e2402042, 61pp.

Song, J., Zhong, Y., Jiang, S., and Wang, X., 2025, The first ornithocheiromorph humerus from Wuerho (Urho), China, with a new isotopic age of the Tugulu Group: Anais da Academia Brasilieira de Sciences, v. 97, supplement n. 1, 1-18. Link to pdf

Sprague, M., and Mclain, M., 2025, A large Scaphognathine (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchidae) humerus with a pneumatic foramen and enlarged condyls from Morrison Formation, Wyoming, with a discussion of the implications of humeral condyles in pterosaurs: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement no. 1, 14pp. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Thomas, H. N., 2025, Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi Huxley, 1859 is the valid name and authority for a Jurassic pterosaur (Pterosauria, Rhamphorhynchidae) from England, not Pterodactylus bucklandi Meyer, 1832: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 82, p. 185-189. Link to pdf

 Thomas, H. N., Hone, D. W. E., Gomes, T., and Peterson, J. E., 2025, Infernodrakon hastacollis gen. et sp. nov., a new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, and the pterosaur diversity of Maastrichtian North America: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2442476, 15pp. (Infernodrakon hastacollis)

Thomas, H. N., Hone, D. W. E., Gomes, T., and Peterson, J. E., 2025, Infernodrakon hastacollis gen. et sp. nov., a new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, and the pterosaur diversity of Maastrichtian North America: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2442476, 15pp. (Infernodrakon hastacollis)

Thomas, H. N., and McDavid, S. N., 2025, Enter the dragons: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea (Pterosauria: Pterodacyloidea) and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 47pp.

Tunca, S. G., Ozgur, M. A., and Kosar, O., 2025, Experimental investigation of the aerodynamic performance of rhamphorhynchus muensteri-inspired airfoli profiles at low Reynolds numbers: Journal fo Engineering Research, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Xu, Y., Jiang, S., and0 Wang, X., 2025, New insights on the osteology of Istiodactyliforms from the Jehol Biota new material of Honshanopterus lacustris Wang et al., 2008 and restudy of Nurhachius ignaciobritoi Wang et al., 2005: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 6, e2496197, 19pp.

Zhou, C.-F., and Fan, F., 2025, Tooth replacement of the filter-feeding pterosaur Forfexopterus and its implications for ecological adaptation: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Ciencias, v. 97, supplement no. 1, 11pp. Link to pdf

Zhou, X., Ikegami, N, Petas, R. V., Yoshinaga, T., Sato, T., Mukunoki, T., Motani, J., and Kobayashi, Y., 2025, Reassessemnt of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen form the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan: Cretaceous Research, v. 167: 106046, 10pp. (Nippanopterus mifunensis)


Dinosaur

Dinosauromorpha

Genus: Nova (2)

Alvavtum LOVELACE, KUFNER, FITCH, SCHMITZ, SCHWARTS, LeCLAIR-DIAZ, St. CLAIR, MANN & TERAN, 2025

Itaguyra NETO, PRETTO, MARTINELLI, BATTISTA, GARCIA, MÜLLER, SCHMITT, MELO, FRANCISCHINI, SCHULTZE, PINHEIRO, SOARES & KELLNER, 2025

Species: Nova (2)

Alvavtum bahndooiveche LOVELACE, KUFNER, FITCH, SCHMITZ, SCHWARTS, LeCLAIR-DIAZ, St. CLAIR, MANN & TERAN, 2025

Itaguyra occulta NETO, PRETTO, MARTINELLI, BATTISTA, GARCIA, MÜLLER, SCHMITT, MELO, FRANCISCHINI, SCHULTZE, PINHEIRO, SOARES & KELLNER, 2025

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaurs may have roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Flightless ancestor shows brain evolution in pterosaurs and birds took different paths: Phys Org, published online, 9pp. Link to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, The first dinosaurs might have been bigher than expected: Phys Org, Published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Lovegrove, J., Chapelle, K. E. J., Peecook, B. R., Upchurch P., and Barrett, P. M., 2025, A new large 'silesaur' specimen from the ?Late Triassic of Zambia; taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary implications: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 250762, 17pp. Link to pdf

Lovelace, D. M., Kufner, A. M., Fitch, A. J., Rogers, K. C., Schmitz, M., Schwartz, D. M., LeClair-Diaz, A., St. Clair, L., Mann, J., and Teran, R., 2025, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA): Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 203, zlae 153, 25pp. (Alvavtum bahndooiveche) Link to pdf

Marsh, A. D., 2025, A large siMarsh, A. D., 2025, A large silesaurid specimen from Petrified Forest National Park, U.S.A., with comments on large body sizes in latest Triassic ornithodrians: Lithodendron, v. 2, 15pp. Link to pdf"

Neto, V. D. P., Pretto, F. A., Martinelli, A. G., Battista, F., Garcia, M., Müller, R. T., Schmitt, M. R., Melo, T. P., Francischini, H., Schultz, C. L., Pinheiro, F., Soares, M. B., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2025, Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to Late Triassic: Scientific Reports, V. 15:18498, 13pp. (Itaguyra occulta) Link to pdf

Sen, S., and Ray, S., 2025, Taxonomic reassessment of archosaurs with dinosaurian affinities from the lower fauna of the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation of India and thier significance: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e254634, 34pp. (Alickmeron maleriensis)

Tolchard, F. B., Perkins, B. W., and Nesbitt, S. J., 2025, Silesaurid (Archosauria: Dinosauriformes) remains from the base of the Dockum Group (Late Triassic: Otischalkian) of Texas provide new insights to the North American record of dinosauriforms: The Anatomical Record, published online, 21pp. Link to pdf

Theropoda

Genus: Nova (11)

Duonychus KOBAYASHI, ZELENITSKY, FIORILLO & CHINZORIG, 2025

Dzharacursor AVERIANOV & SUES, 2025

Elgansvenator SANCARLO & PAUl, 2025

Gilmorelarsontyrannus SANCARLO & PAUl, 2025

Joaquinraptor IBIRICU, LAMANNA, ALVAREZ, CERDA, CAGLIANONE, CARDOZO, LUNA & MARTINEZ, 2025

Khankhuuluu VORIS, ZELENITSKY, KOBAYASHI, MODESTO, THERRIEN, TSUTSUMI, CHINZORIG & TSOGTBAATAR, 2025

Maleriraptor EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MULLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025

Manipulonyx AVERIANOV, LOPATIN & ATUCHIN, 2025

Tameryraptor KELLERMANN, CUESTA & RAUHUT, 2025

Vitosaura colozancani VELANDIA, EZCURRA, HECHENLEITNER, BASILCI, MARTINELLI & FIORELL, 2025

Yuanmouraptor ZOU, CHEN, WANG, WANG, ZHANG, ZHANG, WANG, WU & YOU, 2025

Species: Nova (9)

Duonychus tsogtbaatari KOBAYASHI, ZELENITSKY, FIORILLO & CHINZORIG, 2025

Elgansvenator zannoae SANCARLO & PAUl, 2025

Joaquinraptor casali IBIRICU, LAMANNA, ALVAREZ, CERDA, CAGLIANONE, CARDOZO, LUNA & MARTINEZ, 2025

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis VORIS, ZELENITSKY, KOBAYASHI, MODESTO, THERRIEN, TSUTSUMI, CHINZORIG & TSOGTBAATAR, 2025

Maleriraptor kuttyi EZCURRA, GARCIA, NOVAS, MULLER, AGNOLIN & CHATTERJEE, 2025

Manipulonyx reshetovi AVERIANOV, LOPATIN & ATUCHIN, 2025

Tameryraptor markgrafi KELLERMAN, CUESTA & RAUHUT, 2025

Vitosaura colozancani VELANDIA, EZCURRA, HECHENLEITNER, BASILCI, MARTINELLI & FIORELL, 2025

Yuanmouraptor jinshajiangensis ZOU, CHEN, WANG, WANG, ZHANG, ZHANG, WANG, WU & YOU, 2025

Synonymus: Nova (2)

Dzharacursor bissektensis (NESSOV, 1995) AVERIANOV & SUES, 2025

= Archaeornithomimus (?) bissektensis NESSOV, 1995

Gilmorelarsontyrannus lethaeus (ZANNO & NAPOLI, 2025) SANCARLO & PAUl, 2025

= Nanotyrannus lethaeus ZANNO & NAPOLI, 2025

 

Anonymous, 2025, New Australian dinosaurs and the oldest megaraptorid fossils in the world: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birds: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, T. rex's direct ancestor crossed from Asia to North America, new study finds: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf"style3">

Anonymous, 2025, Paleontologists identify closest-known ancestor to Tyrannosaurus: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaur wrist bone discovery reshapes understanding of flight evolution: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Nanotyrannus confirmed: Dueling dinosaurs fossils rewrites the story of T. rex: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaur discovery extends known range of ancient species: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Notice of new applications to the commission (Cases 3885-3900): Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 81, p. 2-3.

Anonymous, 2025, Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, new study confirms: Phys Org, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, The dinosaur that forgot how to fly: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Averianov, A. O., Kuzmin, I. T., Skutschas, P. P., and Sues, H.-D., 2025, First record of Carcharodontosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 13pp.

Averianov, A. O., Lopatin, A. V., and Autchin, A. A., 2025, Forelimb structure and function in a new Late Cretaceous parvicursorine theropod dinosaru from Mongolia: Proceedings of the Zoological Insistute, RAS, v. 329, n. 4, p. 382-408. (Manipulonyx reshetovi) Link to pdf

Averianov, A. O., and Sues, H.-D., 2025, A new ornithomimid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation fo Uzbekistan: Journal ov Vertebrate Paleontology, e2433759, 12pp. (Dzharacusor bissektensis = Archaeornithomimus (?) bissektensis

Averianov, A. O., and Sues, H.-D., 2024 (published 2025), A new ornithomimid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation fo Uzbekistan: Journal ov Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 3, e2433759, 12pp. (Dzharacusor bissektensis = Archaeornithomimus (?) bissektensis

Bahn, J, Alferez, G. H., and Snyder, K., 2025, Machine learning classification of fossilized Pectinodon bakkeri teeth images: insights into troodontid theropod dinosaur morphology: Machine learnign Knowled etraction, v. 7, 45, 14pp. Link to pdf

Batista, F., Castro, L., Moita, P., Maggia, B., Ortega, F., and Malafaia, E., 2025, Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andres fossil stie, Pombal, Portugal: Lethaia, published online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Benoit, J., Helm, C., and Bordy, E. M., 2025, Fossil science owes a debt to indigenous knowledge: Lesotho missionary's notes tell the story: Phys org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Benoit, J., Helm, C., and Bordy, E. M., 2025, Paleontological knowledge among the Basotho and San of Lesotho: A review including insights from Paul Ellenberer's archives: Geoheritage, v. 17:166, 20pp. Link to pdf

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Bindellini, G., Moscarella, A., Makovicky, P., Manucci, F., and Romano, M., 2025, Velociraptor: the state of the art 100 years after the discovery of this iconic dinosaur: Italian Journal of Geoscience, Special Section - 200 Years of Dinosaurs: state of the art and future directions, v. 145, n. 1, published online, p. 460-486. Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Bronzati, M., Watanabe, A., Benson, R. B. J., Muller, R. T., Witmer, L. M., Ezcurra, M. D., Montefeltro, F. C., von Beczko, M. B., Bhullar, B.-A. S., Desojo, J. B., Knoll, F., Langer, M. C., Lautenschlager, S., Stocker, M. R., Turner, A. H., Werneburg, I., Nesbitt, S. J., and Fabbri, M., 2025, Neuroanatomical convergence between pterosaurs and non-avian paravians in the evolution of flight: Current Biology, v. 35, 8pp. Link to pdf

Buffetaut, E., 2025, Abelisaurids before Abelisaurus: early reports of Abelisaurid dinosaurs from Europe, Tercera Serie, v. 15,  n. 1, p. 181-194. Link to pdf

Buffetatut, E., 2025, Furileusaurian osteological characters in Genusaurus sisteronis Accarie et al., 1995, an abelisaurid dinosaur from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of south-eastern France: Carnets natures, v. 12, p. 79-88. Link to pdf

Butler, R., 2025, The best dinosaur discoveries of 2025: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Caldwell, H. R., Bedolla, E., and Varicchio, D. J., 2025, Patterns of postcranial fusion in the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2493166, 15pp. Link to pdf

Caldwell, H. R., Bedolla, E., and Varicchio, D. J., 2025, Patterns of postcranial fusion in the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n. 6, e2493166, 15pp.

Calvo, J. O., Porfiri, J. D., Rolando, A. M. A., Novas, F. E., Dos Santos, D. D., Wessel, D. E., and Lamanna, M. C., 2025, Morphological and phylogenetic significance of the first adult humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998: Annales of Carnegie Museum, v. 90, n. 3, p. 161-181. Link to pdf

Crane, A., 2025, New 'miniature T. rex' rewrites the history of the world's largest predator: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Rauhut, O. W. M., Canudo, J. I., and Castanera, D., 2025, Revision of the theropod dinosaur Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Teruel province, Spain: Palaeontological Electronica, v. 28, n. 3:a40, 67pp. Link to pdf

Carr, T. D., 2025, Tyrannosaurus rex: an endangered species: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1: a16, 27pp. Link to pdf

Carr, T. D., 2025, Observations on the skull of the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905: All Earth, v. 37, n. 1, 67pp. Link to pdf

Casper, K. R., Guiterrez-Ibanez, C., George, H., holtz Jr., T. R., Naish, D., and Hurlberg, G. R., 2025, Endothermy, neuron counts, and other issues: further remarks on neurocognitive evolution in the fossil vertebrates: The Anatomical Record, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Cau, A., and Paterna, A., 2025, Beyond the Stromer's riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa: Italian Journal of Geosciences, v. 144, n. 2. 24pp.

Chinzhorig, T., Takasaki, R., Chiba, K., Fiorillo, A. R., Kobayashi, Y., Saneyoshi, M., and Ishigaki, S., 2025, A potential deinocheirid ornithomimosaur from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Montana, U.S.A.) and its paleobiogeographic implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2536844, 13pp.

Chinzhorig, T., Takasaki, R., Chiba, K., Fiorillo, A. R., Kobayashi, Y., Saneyoshi, M., and Ishigaki, S., 2025, A potential deinocheirid ornithomimosaur from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Montana, U.S.A.) and its paleobiogeographic implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, n. 45, n. 2, e2536844, 13pp.

Chotard, M., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Kaye, T. G., Grosmougin, M., Barlow, L., Kundrat, M, Dececchi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Zariwala, J,. Hartman, S., Xu, X,. and Pittman, M., 2025, New information on the hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae): BMC Ecology and Evolution, v. 25:27, 29pp. Link to pdf

Chowchuvech, W., Manitkoon, S., Chanthasit, P., Chokchaloemwon, D., Kosulawatha, W., Ketwesuriya, C., 2025, Isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous Khorat Group: implications for theropod diversity in Thailand: Cretaceous Research, v. 175, 106147, 21pp.

Cooper, J. A., 2025, An exceptional and unique birdlike dinosaur fossil with a troubled history: Historical Biology, an international Journal of Paleobiology, Published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Coppock, C. C., Powers, M. J., Voris, j. T., and Currie, P. J., 2025, First occurrence of Daspletosaurus horneri (Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurinae) in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Dinosaur Provincal Park, Alberta (Treaty 7 Territory): Historical biology, published online, 13pp.

Delcorut, R., Grillo, O. N., Hendrickx, C., Kellermann, M., and Langer M. C., 2025, The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica: The Anatomical Record, published online, 38pp. Link to pdf

Demers-Potvin, A. V., and Larsson, H. C. E., 2025, High local variability in evevation of the Oldman-Dinosaur Park Formation contact revealed by digital outcrop reconstruction, and implications for dinosaur biostatigraphy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada: Palaeontologia Electonica, v. 28,n . 1: A1341pp. Link to pdf

Elliott, D., 2025, Black-Soil Dinosaurs. Significant dinosaur discoveries in western Queenslnd over the past two decades have put Australia on the palaeontological world state. So, why couldn't we find them before: In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 54-65.

Evans, O., Howells, C., Wintle, N., and Benton, M. J., 2025, Re-assessment of a large archosaur dentary from the Late Traissc of South Wales, United Kingdom: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, publshed online, 9pp.

Ezcurra, M. D., Garcia, M. S., Novas, F. E., Müller, R. T., Agnolin, F. L., and Chatterjee, S., 2025, A new herrerasaurian dnosaur from the Upper Traissic Upper Maleri Formation of south-central India: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 250081, 20pp. (Maleriraptor kuttyi) Link to pdf

Feng, D., Tutken T., Beler, E. M., Herwartz, D., and Pack, A., 2025, Mesozoic atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstruted from dinosaur tooth enamel: Proceending of the Natinoal Academy of Science,. v 122, n. 33, e2504324122, 7pp. Link to pdf

Feineman, D., 2025, The Dinosaurs of Broomfield County: The Broomcorn Expres, 5.1, p. 19-26.

Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Elsler, A., Fansworth, A., Lunt, D. J., adn Benton, M. J., 2025, Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archoauromorph reptiles; Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Flynn, A. G., Brusatte, S. L., Chiarenza, A. A., Garcia-Giron, J., Davis, A. J., Fenley IV, C. W., Leslie, C. E., Secord, R., Shelley, S., Weil, A., Heizler, M. T. Williamson, T. E., and Peppe, D. J., 2025, Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: Science, p. 400-404. Link to pdf

Foster, W., Norell, M. A., and Balanoff, A. M., 2025, Two new specimens of Conchoraptor gracilis (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) form the Late of Mongolia: American Museum Novitates, n. 4033, 66pp. Link to pdf

Freimuth, W. J., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, New craniodental materials of Falarius utahensis (Theropoda: Thrizinosauria) reveal patterns of intraspecifica variation and cranial evolution in early coelurosaurians: The Anatomical Record, published onlien 54pp. Link to pdf

Garcia, M. S., Martinez, R. N., and Müller, R. T., 2025, Craniofacial lesions in the earliest predatory dinosaurs indicate intraspecific agonistic behaviour at the dawn of the dinosaur era: The Scienc of nature, 112:30, 12pp.

Garros, C. W., Powers, M. J., Dyer, A. D., and Currie, P. J., 2025, Osteohistological analysis of metatarsals reveals new information on pathology and life history of troodontids from the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 29pp. Link to pdf

Griffin, C. T., Bugos, J,. Poust, A. W., Morris, Z. S., Sombathy, R. S., D'Emic, M. D., O'Connor, P. M., Petermann, H., Fabbri, M., and Colleary, C., 2025, A diminutive tyrannosaur lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex: Science, published online, 13pp.

Grosmougin, M., Wang,Grosmougin, M., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Kaye, T. G., Chotard, M,. Barlow, L. A., Deccechi, T. A., Habib, M. B., Zariwala, J,. Hartman, S. A., Xu, X., and Pttiman, M., 2025, Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor: BMC Ecology and Evolution, published online, 25pp. Link to pdf

Hedge, J., Bender, E., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, Novel quantification of eggshell surfaces in landiae with implications for the fossil eggshells of Oviraptorosauria (Dinosauria): Ecology and Evolution, v. 15:e71260-, 14pp. Link to pdf

Henßel, K., 2025, Paleontologists discover a new species of North African predatory dinosaur in archived images: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Henßel, K., 2025, The European roots of Africa's giant predatory dinosaurs: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Hone, D., 2025, How paleontologists are uncoveing dinosaur behavior, Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Ibiricu, L. M., Lamanna, M. C., Alvarez, B. N., Cerda, I. A., Caglianone, J. L., Cardoza, N. V., Luna, M., and Martinez, R. D., 2025, Latest Cretaceous megaraptorid theropod dinosaur sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology: Nature Communications, 16:8298, 18pp. (Joaquinraptor casali) Link to pdf

Jackson, J., 2025, Fossil discovery in India extends the timeline of early dinosaurs: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Jackson, J., 2025, Early experiment at the dawn of dinosaur evolution discovered: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Jensen, T. R., Jacobs, I., Kverkova, K., Lalic, L., Polonyiova, A., Stehlik, P., Reber, S. A., and Osvath, M., 2025, T. rex cognition was T.rex-like--a critical outlook on diverging views of the neurocognitive evolution in dinosaurs: The Anatomical Record, published online, 10pp. Link to pdf

Kellermann, M., Cuesta, E., and Rauhut, O.V. M., 2025, Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny: Plos One, v. 20, n. 1: e0311096, 56pp. (Tameryraptor markgrafi) Link to pdf

Kiat, Y., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Wang, Y., and O'Connor, J., 2025, Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs: Communications biology, v. 8:1633, 9pp. Link to pdf

Kobayashi, Y., Zelenitsky, D. K., Fiorillo, A. P., and Chinzorig, T., 2025, Didactyl therizionsaur with a presrved kerationus claw from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: iScience, 112141, published online, 12pp. (Duonychus tsogtbaatari) Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kotevski, J., 2025, Polar preadators, the hunt for Victoria's carnivorous dinosaurs: In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 27-28.

Kotevski, J., Duncna, R. J., Ziegler, T., Bevitt, J. J., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T. H., Evans, A. R., and Poropat, S. F., 2025, Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of new carcharodontosaurian, megaraptorid, and unenlagiine theropod remains from the Upper Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, southeast Australia: Journal of Vertebrtae Paleontology, e2551903, published online, 27pp. Link to pdf

Kotevski, J., Duncna, R. J., Ziegler, T., Bevitt, J. J., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T. H., Evans, A. R., and Poropat, S. F., 2025, Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of new carcharodontosaurian, megaraptorid, and unenlagiine theropod remains from the Upper Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, southeast Australia: Journal of Vertebrtae Paleontology, v. 44, n. 4, e2551903, published online, 27pp.

Kubo, K., and Kobayashi, Y., 2025, Cursorial ecomorphology and temporal patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution during the mid-Cretaceous: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 241178, 12pp Link to pdf

Lawler, D., 2025, New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Li, H., Xing, X., Jiang, J., Liu, J., Brusatte, S. L., and Bi, S., 2025, New material of a non-averostran neotheropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, south-western China: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204, zlaf-34, published online, 29pp.

Lo Coco, G. E., Motta, M,. Agnolin, E. L., and Novas, F. E. 2025, Reconstruction of pectoral musculature in non-avialan paravians and basal brids: implicatiosn in the acquisition of flapping flight: BMC Eecology and evolution, v. 25:113, 16pp. Link to pdf

Long, B. J. N., Zheng, W., Schweitzer, M., and Hallen, H. D., 2025, Resonance Raman confirs partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur remains: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A., v. 481: 20250175, 18pp. Link to pdf

Malafaia, E., Batista, F., Maggia, B., Marques, C. S., Escaso, F., Dantas, P., and Ortega, F., 2025, Theropod tooth morphotypes from the Andres fossil stie: Insights into a highly diverse fauna of European Late Jurassic carnivore dinosaurs: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 3: 153, 39pp. Link to pdf

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Theropods, Ornithischians and Pterosaurs from South Asia-review with new taxa: a look at paleontology, stratigraphy and mineral potential of Pakistan: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 1, p. 22-68.

Martinez, R. N., Colombi, C. E., Ezcurra, M. D., Abelin, D. O., Cerda, I., and Alcoer, O. A., 2025, A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation: Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 10pp. (Anteavis curilongus) Link to supplementary material

Mead, A., 2025, Bizarre-looking dinosaur challenges what we know about the evolution of fingers: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Mead, A., Funston, G., and Brusatte, S., 2025, Forelimb reduction and digit loss were evolutionarily decoupled in oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaurs: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 242114, 16pp. Link to pdf

Meso, J. G., Choiniere, J N., Balano, M A., Brusatte, S. L., Canale, J. I., Salgado, L., Pol, D., and Pittman, M., 2025, New information on Bonapartenkyus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Rio Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan: Public Library of Science (PLOS), One, v. 20, n. 1: e0308366,  41 pp. Link to pdf

Meyer, C. A., and Sciscio, L., 2025, Dinosaurierfunde aus dem spaten Jura der Nordwestschwiez (Oxfordium-Tithonium): Regio Basiliensis, v. 66, n. 1, p. 43-54. Link to pdf

Mitchell, J. L., Barbi, M,. McKellar, R. C., Cliveti, M., and Coulson, I. M., 2025, In situ analysis of vascular structures in fractured Tyrannosaurus rex rib: Scientific Reports, v. 15: 20327, 14pp. Link to pdf

Morrison, C., Scherer, C. R., O'Callaghan, E. V., Layton, C., Boisvert, C., Rolando, M. A., Durrant, L., Salas, P., Allain, S. J. R., and Gascoigne, S. J. L., 2025, Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs: Royal Society Open Science, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Motta, M. J., Agnolin, F. L., Egli, F. B., Rozadilla, S., and Novas, F. E., 2025, Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria): Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 29, n. 1, 1519608, 27pp.

Napoli, J. G., Fabbri, M, Ruebenstahl, A. A., O'Connor, J. K., Bhullar, B.-A. S., and Norell, M. A., 2025, Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight: Nature, published online, 7pp.

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Olmedo-Romana, G. J., Wilson mantilla, J. A., Tejada J. V., Antoine, P, O., Burga-Castillo, M. A., Aliaga-Castillo, A. V., Varas-Malca, R., Benites-Palomino, A., and Sals-Gismondi, R., 2025, Theropod and sauropod dinosaurs from the Campanian-Maastrichtian Bagua basin of Peru, including the first possible report of Spinosauridae in western South America: Ameghiniana, v. 62, n. 4, 34pp. Link to pdf

Ortiz, P. E., Gonzalez, R,. Deraco, V., Herrera, C., Abdala, F., Esteban, G., and Martinelli, A., 2025, The coleccion paleontologie de vertebrados Lillo, a pioneering role in the reserach on fossil vertebrates in Argentina: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 211-238. Link to pdf

Osi, A., Kollati, R., and Nagy, A. L., 2025, Morphological and dental wear pattern analysis of Upper Cretaceous theropod teeth from Central Europe: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeonenvironments, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, Paleontologists identify 12 new dinosaur teeth in China's Nenjiang Formation: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Oswald, T., Boisvert, C., D'Amore, D., and Curtice, B., 2025, "Here be Dragons": Shed teeth potentially indicated the presence of multiple unidentified allosauroids from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountian Formation of Utah: Journal of Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, V. 50, n. 2, p. 55-129.

Paul, G. S., 2025, A presentation of the current data on the exceptionally diverse non-tyrannosaurid eutyrannosaur and tyrannosaurini genera and species of western North America during the End Cretaceous North American interchange; Mesozoic, v. 2, n . 2, p. 85-138.

Pereyra, E. E. S., Ezcurra, M. D., Paschetta, C., and Mendez, A. H., 2025, Building a predator: macroevolutonary patterns in the skull of abelisaurid dinosaurs: Proceedings the Royal Society, Series B., 292: 20260943, 9pp. Link to pdf

Pereyra, E. E. S., Perez, D. E., and Mendez, A. H., 2025, Macroevolutionary trends in Ceratosauria body size: insights of phylogenetic comparative methods: BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25:32, 12pp. Link to pdf

Pereyra, E. E. S., Vrdoljak, J., Ezcurra, M D., Gonzalez-Dionis, J., Paschetta, C., and Mendez, A. H., 2025, Morphology of the maxilla informs about the type of predation strategy in the evolution of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda): Scientific Reports, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Pradelli, L. A., Pol, D., and Ezcurra, M. D., 2025, The appendicular osteology of the Early Jurassic theropod Piatnitzkysaurus floresi and its implications on the morphological disparity of non-coelurosaurian tetanurans: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 203, zlae 176, 40pp.

Puntanon, K., and Samathi, A., 2025, The occurrence of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) durring the Cretaceous of Asia: Implications for biogeography and distribution: Thai Geoscience Journal, v. 6, n. 9, p. 13-28. Link to pdf

Puntanon, K., Suteethorn, S., and Samathi, A., 2025, Spinosaurid theropod dinosaur remains from the Hin Lat Yao locality on Phu Wiang Mountian in Khon Kaen, Thailand, with comments on the status of Siamosaurus suteethorni: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Ribeiro, T. B., Vecchietti, L. F., Candeiro, C. R. A., Canale, J. I., Bergqvist, L. P., Brito, P. M., and Pereira, P. V. L. G., C., 2025, Overabundance of abelisaurid teeth in the Acu Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) portiguar basin, northeastern Brazil: Morphometric, cladistic and machine learning approaches: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n .6, e2487366, 26pp.

Qiu, R., Wang, X., Jiang, S., Meng, J., and Zhou, Z., 2025, Two new compsognathid-like theropods show diversified predation stratigies in theropod dinosaurs: National Science, Review, v. 12:nwaf068, 12pp. (Huadanosaurus sinensis, Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis) Link to pdf

Scancario, F., and Paul, G. S., 2025, The taxonomics of the diverse, lithe basal eutyrannosaur genera and species of late Maastrichtian western North America: BioRxiv preprint, published online, 47pp. (Gilmorelarsontyrannus lethaeus = Nanotyrannus lethaeus, Elgansvenator zannoae) Link to pdf

Sen, S., and Ray, S., 2025, Taxonomic reassessment of archosaurs with dinosaurian affinities from the lower fauna of the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation of India and thier significance: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e254634, 34pp. (Alickmeron maleriensis)

Sena, M. V. A., Voeten, D. F A. E., Araujo, E., and Cubo, J., 2025, Femoral metadiaphyscal and nutrient foramen perfusion suggests comparable maximal metabolic rates in a pterosaur and in a semi-aquatic maniraptoran dinosaur: PeerJ 13:e19806 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19806, 15pp. Link to pdf

Serrano-Branas, C. I, EspinosaSerrano-Branas, C. I, Espinosa-Chaves, B., de Leon-Davila, C., Maccraken, S. A., Barrear-Guevara, D., Torres-Rodriguez, E., and Prieto-Marquez, A., 2025, A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico: Cretaceous Research, v. 169, 25pp. (Mexidracon longmanus)1">

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Smith, D. K., 2025, Pectoral girdle and forelimb muscle reconstruction in the basal therizinosaur Falcarius utahensis from central Utah: Journal of Morphology: 296:e70067, 22pp. Link to pdf

Smith, D.Smith, D. K., 2025, Forelimb biomechanics in the derived therizinosaur Nothronychus its relation to the origin of the avian wing: Scientific Reports, v. 15:36551, 14pp. Link to pdf

Smith, D. K., and Gillette, D. D., 2025, Osteology of the derived Therizinosaur Nothronychus with evidence for convergence in dinosaurian evolutino: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 203, zlad 148, 47pp. Link to pdf

Snively, E., 2025, Biomechanics: giant carnivore dinosaurs feeding at the edge: Current Biology, v. 35, R914-R928.

Stembridge-King, J., and Wilkin, J. T. R., 2025, The lifestyle of Spinosaurus, Fossil explained 90: Geology Today, v. 41, n. 3, p. 118-122. Link to pdf

de Souza, G. A., Soares, M. B., Veinschutz, L. C., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2025, Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariablity of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae: Anatomical Record, published online, 18pp.

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Theda, D., Nau, D., Dedrichs, R., and Schwermann, A. H., 2025, The first ornithomimosaur remains from Germany: Acta Palaeontologica, Polonica, v. 70, n. 3, p. 543-555. Link to pdf

Titus, A. L., Irmis, R. B., Sampson, S. D., Zanno, L. E., Albright, L. B., Sertich, J. J. W., Roberts, E. M., and Farke, A. A., 2025, Twenty-five years of paleontlogical researchin Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mounument, Utah: public Lands in service to science and public: Prks, Stewardship Forum, v. 41, n. 3, p. 402-424. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. Link to pdf

Varricchio, D. J., Hogan, J. D., and Gardner, J. D., 2025, Troodontid specimens from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA) and teh validity of Troodon formosus: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Velandia, H. J., Ezcurra, M. D., heichenleitner, E. M., Basilici, G., Martinelli, A. G., and Fiorelli, L. E., 2025, A new Late Cretaceous abelisaurid species from La Rioja Province, Northwestern Argentina: Ameghiana, v. 63, n. 5, 23pp. (Vitosaura colozancani) Link to pdf

Voris, J. T., Therrien, F., Ridgely, R. C., Witmer, L. M., and Zelenitsky, D. K., 2025, Ontogenetic changes in endocranial anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda; Tyrannosauridae) provide insight into the evolution of the tyrannosauroid endocranium: Journal of Comparative Neurology, 5ss:e70056, 18pp. Link to pdf

Voris, J. T., Zelenitsky, D. K, Kobayashi, Y, Modesto, S. P., Therrien, F., Tsutsumi, H, Chinzorig, T., and Tsogtbaatar, K., 2025, A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria: Nature, published online, 7pp. (Khankhuuluu mongoliensis)

Wakabayashi, T., Takata, K., Kawabe, S., Shimada, M,. Mugitani, T., Yachida, T., Maruyama, R., Kanai, S., Takeuchi, K., Kotsuji, T., Tateishi, T., Hyodoh, H,. and Tsujikawa, T., 2025, Photon-Counting detector CT scan of dinosaur fossils: initial experience: Journal of Imaging, v. 11, 180, 7pp. Link to pdf

Wang, M., Wang, X.-L., Zheng, X.-T., and Zhou, Z.-H., 2025, Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) Sheds new light on bird skull evolution: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, published online, 24pp. Link to pdf

Wang, S., Ding, N., Ma, W., You, W., Zheng, T., Choiniere, J., and Xu, X., 2025, Direct evidence of carnivory in the early-diverging Alvarezsaurian Bannykus: The innovation Geosience, v. 3, n. 3: 100143, 11pp. Link to pdf

Warner-Cowgill, E., Storrs, G. W., Rogers, R. R., and Maltese, A E., 2025, Cranial anatomy and stratigraphy of a new specimen of the tyrannosaurine dinosaur Daspletosaurus from the Judith River Formation of Central Montana, USA: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 1, p. 159-174. Link to pdf

Wroblewski, A. F.-J., 2025, Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American Dinosaurs: Lethaia, published online, 10pp.

Link to pdf

Xu, Y., 2025, Dinosaur origin of birds: evidence and research methods of cranium evolution: Dean &  Francis, ISSN 2959-409x, 5pp. Link to pdf

Yin, Y.-L., Li, Y., Hu, J., and Zhang, H.-G., 2025, Dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China: PeerJ 13:e10013 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19013, 16pp. Link to pdf

Yirka, B., 2025, New genus and species within Ornithomimidae dinosaur family identified in Mexico: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Yirka, B., 2025, Giant claw unearthed in Mongolia belongs to a new species of two-fingered dinosaur: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Yu, K., Wu, W., Sun, W., Chen, J., and Wang, X., 2025, New dinosaur teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, northeast China: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), v. 99, n. 2, p. 320-331. Link to pdf

Yun, C. G., 2025, Jaw biomechanics of Troodontidae and thier implicatons for the palaeobiology of this lineage of bird-like theropod dinosaurs: Lethaia, v. 58, n. 12pp. Link to pdf

Yun, C.-G., Delcourt, R., and Currie, P. J., 2025, Allometric growth and intraspecific variation of the craniomandibular bones of Tarbosaurus bataar (Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae): a geometric morphometric approach: Leathia, published online, 28pp. Link to pdf

Zanno, L. E., and Napoli, J. G., 2025, Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous: Nature,  published online, 11p. (Nanotyrannus lethaeus)

Zou, Y., Chen, L., Wang, T., Wang, G.-F., Zhang, S.-G., Zhang, X.-Q., Wang, Z.-J., Wu, X.-C., and You, H.-L., 2025, A new metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China: PeerJ 13:e19218 http://doi.org/10.7717'peerj.19218, 54pp. (Yuanmouraptor jinshajiangensis) Link to pdf

Sauropodomorpha (Sauropoda, Prosauropoda)

Genus: NoGenus: Nova (9)

Akimrantitan MALKANI, 2025

Athenar bermani WHITLOCK, GARDERES, GALLINA & LAMANNA, 2025

Huashanosaurus qini MO, ZHOU, FU, XIONG, HU & XU, 2025

Jinchuanloong LI, ZHANG, REN, LI & YOU, 2025

Petrustitan DIEZ DIAZ, MANNION, CSIKI-SAVA & UPCHURCH, 2025

Safisaur MALKANI, 2025

Tongnanlong WEI, TAN, JIANG, DING, LI, WANG, LIU, WEI, LI, LIU, PENG, ZHANG & LAO, 2025

Utetitan , 2025

Wudingloong WANG, ZHANG, WNG, XU, CHEN, FENG, XU, WANG & YOU, 2025

Species: Nova (9)

Akimrantitan waqarzaki MALKANI, 2025

Athenar bermani WHITLOCK, GARDERES, GALLINA & LAMANNA, 2025

Huashanosaurus qini MO, ZHOU, FU, XIONG, HU & XU, 2025

Jinchuanloong niedu LI, ZHANG, REN, LI & YOU, 2025

Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensisDAI, HU, TAN, REN, MA, WEI & YOU, 2025

Safisaur niazensis MALKANI, 2025

Tongnanlong zhimingi WEI, TAN, JIANG, DING, LI, WANG, LIU, WEI, LI, LIU, PENG, ZHANG & LAO, 2025

Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae , 2025

Wudingloong wui WANG, ZHANG, WNG, XU, CHEN, FENG, XU, WANG & YOU, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Petrustitan DIEZ DIAZ, MANNION, CSIKI-SAVA & UPCHURCH, 2025

P. hungaricus (HUENE, 1932) DIEZ DIAZ, MANNION, CSIKI-SAVA & UPCHURCH, 2025

= Titanosaurus hungaricus HUENE, 1929 (nomen dubium)

= Magyarosaurus hungaricus (HUENE, 1929) KUHN, 1939 (nomen dubium)

Anonymous, 2025, Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur disovered in Morocco: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Fossilized dinosaur gut shows that sauropods barely chewed: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

 Anonymous, 2025, How Giraffatitan moved its massive tail: 3D reconstructions provide biomechanical insight: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, 'Striking sail' may have helped dinosaurs find mates, new fossil suggests: Phys Org, publihsed online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Aureliano, T., Almedia, W., Fernandes, M. A., and Ghilardi, A. M., 2025, Several occurrences of osteomyelitis in dinosaurs from a site in the Bauru Group, Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil: The Anatomical Record, published online, 7pp. Link to pd

Beeston, S. L., Schwarz, D., Upchurch, P, Barrett, P. M., Asbach, P., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 38pp. Link to pdf

Boisvert, C., Bivens, G. T., Curtice, B., Wilhite, R., and Wedel, M., 2025, Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, 23pp. Link to pdf

Bignon, A., 2025, La chasse aux <<sauriens>> jurassiques dans le nord-est de la France aux xviiie et xixe siecles (Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne et Alsace); Geodiversitias, v. 47, n 4, p. 93-297. Link to pdf

Bivens, G., Greenfield, T., and Curtice, B., 2025, The authorshipe of Barosaurus africanus gracilis (currently Tornieria gracilis; Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and designation of a lectotype: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 82, p. 175-180. Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Cooper, J. A., 2025, A sauropod dinosaur with an unusually thin ilium: Historical Biology, an international journal of paleobiology, published online, 2pp. Link to pdf

Craine, K., 2025, Dinosaurs in New Mexico thrived until the very end, study shows: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

 

 Dai, H., Hu, X.-F., Tan, C., Ren, X-X., Ma, Q.-Y., Wei, G.-B., and You, H.-L., 2025, A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the upper jurassic of southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods: Scientific Reports, v. 15:43308, 16pp. (Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis

Diez Diaz, V., Mannion, P. D., Csiki-Sava, Z., and Upchurch, P., 2025, Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Hateg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, v. 23, n. 1, 241516, 126pp. (Petrustitan ('Magyarosaurus') hungaricus = Titanosaurus hungaricus, = Magyarosaurus hungaricus, Uriash kadici) Link to pdf

Dupuis, S. F. J., Bestwick, J., Hansen, D. M., Horn, E., Wiik, S., Frederiksen, R., Zboray, R., Tajbakhsh, K, Bachmann, U., Pabst, B., and Scheyer, T. M., 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, v. 144: 27, 39pp. Link to pdf

Elliott, D., 2025, Black-Soil Dinosaurs. Significant dinosaur discoveries in western Queenslnd over the past two decades have put Australia on the palaeontological world state. So, why couldn't we find them before: In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 54-65.

Feng, D., Tutken T., Beler, E. M., Herwartz, D., and Pack, A., 2025, Mesozoic atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstruted from dinosaur tooth enamel: Proceending of the Natinoal Academy of Science,. v 122, n. 33, e2504324122, 7pp. Link to pdf

Filek, T., Kranner, M., Pabst, B., and Gohlich, U. B., 2025, Tail of defence: an almsot complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12: 250325, 13pp. Link to pdf

Flynn, A. G., Brusatte, S. L., Chiarenza, A. A., Garcia-Giron, J., Davis, A. J., Fenley IV, C. W., Leslie, C. E., Secord, R., Shelley, S., Weil, A., Heizler, M. T. Williamson, T. E., and Peppe, D. J., 2025, Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: Science, p. 400-404. Link to pdf

Fonseca, A. O., Bem, F. P., and Muller, R. T., 2025, Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaurs wrist evolution: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 205,n . 1, salf100, 39pp.

Fronimos, J. A., and Woodward, H. N., 2025, Ontogenetic assessment from dorsal ribs in a mature titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas: Jounal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2559012, 14pp.

Gallagher, T., Folkes, D., Pttman, M., Kaye, T. G., Storrs, G. W., and Schein, J., 2025, Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour pattering of a sauropod dinosaur: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12:261232, 11pp. Link to pdf

Gomez, K. L., 2025, Sauropodan niche partition during the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina: Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 14pp.

Gomez, K. L., Pol, D., Ezcurra, M. D., and Carballido, J. L., 2025, Osteology of the appendicualr skeleton of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Dusauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia and the macroeveolutionary history of early eusauropods: Cladistics, published online, 34pp.

Juliao, A., 2025, Deadly bone disease may have doomed Southeast Brazil's long-necked dinosaurs: Phys org, pubilshed online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Juliao, A., 2025, South American long-necked dinosaur could easily stand on two legs, computational study finds: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Junior, J. C. G. S., Ferreira, G. S., Martinelli, A. G., Marinho, T. S., and Montefeltro, F. C., 2025, Standing giants: a digital biomechanical model for bipedal postures in sauropod dinosaurs: Palaeontology, v. 68, part 4, e70019, 12pp. Link to pdf

Kaikaew, S., Suteethorn, S., and Chinsamy, A., 2025, Novel report of an osteogenic tumor in a Late Jurassic Mamenchisaurid from Thailand: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 13pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kubota, K., and Tanaka, K., 2025, Newly discovered archosaur remains and charophyte gyrogonites from the Lower Cretaceous (lower to middle Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation at Tambasasayama and Taba cites, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan: Fossils, the Palaeontological Socity of Japan, v. 118, p. 35-50. Link to pdf

Lacerda, L,. Bandeira, K. L. N., Navarro, B. A., Bertolossi, M. L. P., Gallo, V., da Silva, R. C., de A. Campos, D., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2025, New lithostrotian specimens (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Mato Grosso State (Western Brazil) and comments about tail inguries in sauropod dinosaurs: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 153, 14pp.

Lania, A., Pabst, B., and Scheyer, T. M., 2025, Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 155:39, 54pp. Link to pdf

Li, N, Zhang, X., Ren, X., Li, D., and You, H.-l., 2025, A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China: Scientific Reports, v. 15:17936, 23pp. (Jinchuanloong niedu) Link to pdf

Link to pdf

Maher, A. E., Cox, P. G., Maddox, T. W., Gardiner, J. D., and Bates, K. T., 2025, New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods: Biological Reviews, published online, 30pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, MMaisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Geology and mineral preources of some districts of Pakistan: recent found palaeontological sites and new titanosaur from Pakistan and first diplodocid dinosaur from Indo-Pakistan and Asia: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 10, p. 671-715. (Akimrantitan waqarzaki, Safisaur niazensis)

Mannion, P. D., and Moore, A. J., 2025, Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutonary relationships and biogeography: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, published online, 59pp. Link to pdf

Matteoni, L., Bellardini, F., and Romano, M., 2026 (published 2025), Uncovering Los Bastos: new titanosaur specimens and palaeoecological insights from the Santonian of Patagonia, Argentina: Italian Journal of Geoscience, v. 145 n. 1, 19pp. Link to pdf

Militello, M., Otero, A., and Carballido, J. L., 2025, The occiput of Amargasaurus (Sauropoda, Dicraeosauridae): reconstruction of the craniocervical muscular insertions with commetns on feeding strategy: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 23pp.

Mo, J., Zhou, X., Fu, Q., Xiong, D., Hu, M,. adn Xu, X., 2025, A new eusauropod dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, South China: Acta Geologica Sinica, (English Edition), v. 99, n. 4, p. 909-924. (anosaurus qini) Link to pdf

Mones, A., 2025, The correct year of publication of Coloradia brevis Bonaparte (currently Coloradisaurus brevis: dinosauria, Prosauropoda, Massospondylidae) is 1979, not 1978: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 82, p. 171-174. Link to pdf

Mooney, E. D., Maho, T., Rowe, D. C. T., Scott, D., and Reisz, R. R., 2025, Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:44, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Nascimento, E. G., Candeiro, C. R. A., Vidal, L., Oliveira, E. F., Dias, T. C., and Brusatte, S., 2025, Titanosauria of the Bauru Group: a summary of records and thier importance for understanding the diversity of the clade in Brazil: Andean Geology, v. 52, n. 3, p. 343-362. Link to pdf

Nau, D., 2025, Biodiversitat in der Trias: Gibt es verschieden Arten von Plateosauriern?: Regio Brasilensis, v. 66, n. 1, p. 79-91.

Navarro, B. A., Wilson Mantilla, J. A., Martin, J. H. A., Iori, F. V., Paschoa, L. S., Carvalho, A. B., Piranha, J. M., and Zaher, H., 2025, An unusual titanosaur axis from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and its significance for sauropod anatomy and Systematics: The Anatomical Record, published online, 32pp. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Norris, l., 2025, Clues for dinosaurs' diets found in the chemistry of thier fossil teeth: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Ortiz, P. E., Gonzalez, R,. Deraco, V., Herrera, C., Abdala, F., Esteban, G., and Martinelli, A., 2025, The coleccion paleontologie de vertebrados Lillo, a pioneering role in the reserach on fossil vertebrates in Argentina: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 211-238. gica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/464/894">Link to pdf

Paramo, A., Mocho, P., Escaso, F., and Ortega, F., 2025, Evolution of hind limb morphology of Titanosauriformes (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) analyzed via 3D geometric morphometrics reveals wide-gauge posture as an exaptation of gigantism: eLife, published online, 57pp. Link to pdf

Paul, G. S., 2025, Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa n the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Southwestern North America: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 201-220. (Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae) Link to pdf

Paulina-Carabajal, A., Mendez, A. H., Ulloa-Guaiquin, K., Irazoqui, F., and Lee, Y.-N., 2025, A Mesozoic dino-feast: multiple teeth marks on a sauropod dinosaur bone from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and evidence on theropod feeding behaviour: Publicacion Electronica, v. 25, n. 1, p. 16-30. Link to pdf

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Poropat, S. F., Tosolini, A.-M. P., Beeston, S. L., Enchelmaier, M. J., Pentland, A. H., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Chin, K., Korasidis, V. A., Bell, F R., Enriquez, N. J., Holman, A. I., Brosnan, L. M., Elson, A. L., Tripp. M., Scarlett, A. G., Godel, B., Madden, R. H. C., Rickard, W. D A., Bevitt, J. J., Tischler, T. r., Crozford, T. L. M., Sloan, S., Elliott, E. A., and Grice, K,. 2025, Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosarus: Current Biology, V. 25, p. 2597-2613. Link to pdf

Ren, X.-x., Wang, X.-R., Liu, Y.-c., and Ju, S.-b., 2025, Late Jurassic tectono-volcanic evolution and sauropod radiation of eastern Jiangnan orogen: evidence from Tunxi Formation, China: China Geology, v. 8, p. 778-796. Link to pdf

Rodriguez, J., 2025, Huge fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs found in Texas national park: Phys Org., published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Rozefelds, A., Dr, 2025, A century of Rhoetosaurus, the discovery, recovery, description and naming of an earth-born giant:  In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 76-87.

Shan, B., 2025, The re-description of Liaoningotitan sinensis Zhou et al., 2018: PeerJ 13:e19154 DO 10.7717/peerj.19154, 29pp. Link to pdf

da Silva, R., Camilo, B., Balbino, A., Barrulas, P., Costa, M., and Ribeiro, C., 2025, Caracterizacao geoquimica da diagenese em dentes de Sauropodes como suporte aos estudos isotopicos: Communicacones Geologicas, v. 112,  Especial I, pp. 109-112. Link to pdf.

Simpson, B., 2025, Oldest known dinosaur bone infection found in 220-million-year-old Plateosaurus: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link to pdf

Steiner, G., 2025, New sauropod species from Romania transforms understanding of dinosaur island life in Europe: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Sues, H.-D., and Schoch, R. R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 2, p. 411-483. Link to pdf

Sundgren, J., Chatterjee, S., Zhang, Q.-N., and You, H.-L., 2025, A description of a new sauropodomorph cranial material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, P.R. China: Historical Biology, an international Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Taylor, M. P., Henrici, A. C., Church L. J., Nieuwland, I., and Lamanna, M. C., 2025, The history and composition of the Carnegie Diplodocus: Annals of Carnegie Museum, v. 91, n. 1, p. 55-91. Link to pdf

Toefy, F.Y., Krupandan, K., and Chinsamy, A., 2025, Palaeobiology and osteohistology of South African sauropodomorph dinosaurs: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

van der Linden, T. T. P., Taylor, M. P., Campbell, A., Curtice, B. D., Dederichs, R., Lerzo, L. N., Whitlock, J. A., Woodruff, D. C., and Tschopp, E., 2025, Introduction to Diplodocoidea: Palaeontologia Eletronica, v. 28, n. 2, a27, 49pp. Link to pdf

Wakabayashi, T., Takata, K., Kawabe, S., Shimada, M,. Mugitani, T., Yachida, T., Maruyama, R., Kanai, S., Takeuchi, K., Kotsuji, T., Tateishi, T., Hyodoh, H,. and Tsujikawa, T., 2025, Photon-Counting detector CT scan of dinosaur fossils: initial experience: Journal of Imaging, v. 11, 180, 7pp. Link to pdf

Wang, Y.-M., Zhang, Q.-N., Wang, Y.-C., Xu, H., Chen, J., Feng, Z., Xu, X., Wang, T., and You, H.-L., 2025, A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia: Acientific Reports, v. 15:26749, p. 10pp. (Wudingloong wui).

Wei, X., Tan, Y., Jiang, S., Ding, J., Li, L., Wang, X., Liu, Y., Wei, G., Li, D., Liu, Y., Peng, G., Zhang, S., and Lao, C., 2025, A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in Cina and its implication on sauropod gigantism: Scientific Reports, published online, 15pp. (Tongnanlong zhimingi) Link to pdf

Wilson Mantilla, J. A., Martins, P. Samant, B., and Mohabey, D. M., 2025, First astragalus of a titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Latest Cretaceous of India and the evolution of the sauropod tarsus: Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigha, V. 38, n. 1, p. 1-15. Link to pdf

Williams, A. R., and Harris, J. D., 2025, Cervical ligament systems in sauropod dionsaurs: what support is there? Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 81-97. Link to pdf

Winkler, D. E., Tschopp, /E., Saleiro, A., Wiesinger, R., and Kaiser, T. M., 2025, Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas: Nature Ecology & Evolution, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Whitlock, J. A., Garderes, J. P., Gallina, P., and Lamanna, M. C., 2025, Athenar bermani, a new species of dicraeosaurid sauropod from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, U.S.A.: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n . 3: 150, 13pp. Link to pdf

Woodruff, D. C., Barrett, P. M., Ouarhache, D., Khanchoufi, A. D., Boumir, K., Ech-Charay, K., Oussou, A., Butler, R. J., Wills, S., Mead, L., Smith, M., and Maidment, S. C. R., 2025, Teeth from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco reveal the oldest turiasaurina sauropods form Africa: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 3, p. 411-420. Link to pdf

Yang, C.-y., Liu, J., Zhang, Y.-g., Yang, W.-G., Hu, F., and Zheng, L.-J., 2025, The osteohistological characteristics of Mamenchisaurus guangyuanensis in Jurassic and thier biological significance: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 64, n 3, p. 342-351.

Yin, Y.-L., Li, Y., Hu, J., and Zhang, H.-G., 2025, Dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China: PeerJ 13:e10013 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19013, 16pp. Link to pdf

Yu, K., Wu, W., Sun, W., Chen, J., and Wang, X., 2025, New dinosaur teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, northeast China: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), v. 99, n. 2, p. 320-331. Link to pdf

Ornithischia

Genus: Nova (6)

Ahshislesaurus DALMAN, JASINSKI, MALINZAK, LUCAS, KUNDRAT & FIORILLO, 2025

Cariocecus BERTOZZO, CAMILO, ARAUJO, MANUCCI, KULLBERG, DERIO, de CARVALHO, MARRECAS, FIGUEIREDO & GODEFORIT, 2025

Istiorachis LOCKWOOD, MATILL & MAIDMENT, 2025

Obelignathus CZEPINSKI & MADZIA, 2025

Paulodon SANCARLO, MANDOROLO & FORD, 2025

Pulaosaurus YANG, KING & XU, 2025

Zavacephale CHINZORIG, TAKASAKI, YOSHIDA, TUCKER, BUYANTEGSH, MAINBAYAR, TSOGTBAATAR & ZANNO, 2025

Species: Nova (5)

Ahshislesaurus wimani DALMAN, JASINSKI, MALINZAK, LUCAS, KUNDRAT & FIORILLO, 2025

Cariocecus bocagei BERTOZZO, CAMILO, ARAUJO, MANUCCI, KULLBERG, DERIO, de CARVALHO, MARRECAS, FIGUEIREDO & GODEFORIT, 2025

Istiorachis macarthurae LOCKWOOD, MATILL & MAIDMENT, 2025

Pulaosaurus qinglong YANG, KING & XU, 2025

Zavacephale rinpoche CHINZORIG, TAKASAKI, YOSHIDA, TUCKER, BUYANTEGSH, MAINBAYAR, TSOGTBAATAR & ZANNO, 2025

Synomym: Nova (2)

Obelignathus septimancius (BUFFETAUT & Le LOUEFF, 1991) CZEPINSKI & MADZIA, 2025

= Rhabdodon septimancus BUFFETAUT & Le LOUEFF, 1991

Paulodon galvensis (VERDU, ROYO-TORRES, COBOS & ALCALA, 2017) SANCARLO, MANDOROLO & FORD, 2025

= Iguanodon galvensis VERDU, ROYO-TORRES, COBOS & ALCALA, 2017

Anonymous, 2025, Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new isnights into dinosaurs: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, 'Teen' pachycephalosaur fossil is oldest and most complete skeleton found to date: Phys Org, publihsed online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaur 'mummies' unlock secrets of thier real-life appearance: Phys Org, published online, 10pp. Link to pdf

Ashworth, J., 2025, New species of 'mystery' dinosaur unveiled at the Natural History Museum: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Aureliano, T., Ghilardi, A. M., Kaluza, J., and Martinelli, A. G., 2025, Inside a duck-billed dinosaur: vertebral bone microsturcture of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia: The Anatomical Record, published online, 11pp.

Becerra, M. G., Pol, D., Cerda, I. A., Porro, L. B., and Rauhut, O. W. M., 2025, Postcranial osteology of Manidens condorensis (Ornithischia: Heterodontosauridae) from teh Lower Jurassic of Argentina: 3D reconstruction, histology, and phylogenetic implications: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 5, 41pp.

Bell, P. R., Herne, M. C., Birch, S. A., Molnar, R. E., and Smith, E. T., 2025, Articulated hindlimb of a small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia: Alcheringa: an Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Berrocal-Casero, M., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Callopez, P. M., Pimentel, R., Alcalde-Fuentes, M. R., and Prieto, I., 2025, New ornithopd remains from the Upper Barremian (Lower Cretceous) of Vadillos-1 (Cuenca, Spain): Fossil Studies, v. 3, n. 5, 12pp. Link to pdf

Bert, H., Woodward, H., Rinder, N., Amiot, R., Horner, J. R., Kecuyer, C., Sena, M., and Cubo, J., 2025, Neonatal state and degree of necessity for parental care in Maiasaura based on inferred neonatal metabolic rates: Scientific Reports, published online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Bertozzo, F., Camilo, B., Araujo, R., Manucci, F., Kullberg, J. C., Cerio, D. G., de Carvalho, V. F., Marrecas, P., Figueiredo, S. D., and Godefroit P., 2025, Cariocecus bocagei, a new basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal: Journal of Systematic Paleontology, published online, 46pp. (Cariocecus bocagei)

Bertozzo, F., Kecheng, N,. Gillette, N. V., and Godefroit, P., 2025, Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China: Plos One, v. 20, n. 1: e0312519, 36pp. Link to pdf

Bertozzo, F., Tanke, D. H., Conti, S., Manucci, F., Arnott, G., Godefroit, P., Ruffell, A., Fowler, D., Fowler, E. A. F., Bolotsky, I. Y., Bolotsky, Y. L., and Murphy, E., 2025, Deciphering causes and behaviors: A recurrent pattern of tail injouries in hadrosaurid dinosaurs: iScience, published online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Magyar, J., Pail-Gergely, B, Koczo, L., Tabara, D., Konecsni, G., and Budai, S., 2025, Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest hightly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Hateg Basin (Western Romania; Densus-Ciula Formation): Plos One, v. 20, n. 11, 77pp. Link to pdf

Chandrasinghe, P. C., Cereser, B., Bertazzo, S., Csiki-Sava, Z., and Stebbing, J., 2025, Preserving fossilized soft tissues: advancing proteomics and unveiling the evolutionary history of cancer in dinosaurs: Biology, v. 14, 270, 8pp. Link to pdf

Chinzorig, T., Takasaki, R., Yoshida, J., Tucker, R. T., Buyantegsh, B., Mainbayar, B., Tsogtbaatar, K., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, A domed pachycephalosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia: Nature, published online, 8pp. (Zavacephale rinpoche)

Craine, K., 2025, Dinosaurs in New Mexico thrived until the very end, study shows: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Czepinski, L., and Madzia, D., 2025, Exploring the diversity and disparity of rhabdodontomorph ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous European archipelago: Scientific Reports, v. 15:15209, 19pp. (Obelignathus septimancius = Rhabdodon septimancus)  Link to pdf

Dalman, S. G., Jasinski, S. E., Marinzak, D. E., Lucas, S. G., Kundrat, M., and Fiorillo, A. R., 2025, A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 101, p. 73-114. (Ahshislesaurus wimani) Link to pdf

Demers-Potvin, A. V., and Larsson, H. C. E., 2025, High local variability in evevation of the Oldman-Dinosaur Park Formation contact revealed by digital outcrop reconstruction, and implications for dinosaur biostatigraphy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada: Palaeontologia Electonica, v. 28,n . 1: A1341pp. f="https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1447.pdf">Link to pdf

Devereaux, O., Herne, M. C., Campione, N. E., and Bell, P. R., 2025, Paleoneurology of the iguanodontia Fostoria dhimbangunmal from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 9pp. Link tLink to pdf

Dudgeon, T. W., and Evans, D. C., 2025, Disparate feeding mechanics between two hadrosaurid dinosaurs support the potential for resource partitioning: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, v. 292: 20250921, 13pp. Link to pdf

Ebner, A. J., Csiki-Sava, Z., Treiber, T., Totoianu, R., and Augustin, F. J., 2025, First hadrosauroid record from Petresti-Arini (Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Upper Cretaceous) and its implications for the evolution of the Hateg Island vertebrate faunas: Palaeoworld, v. 34: 200937, 10pp. Link to pdf

Emery-Wetherell, M. M., 2025, Burrow collapse is not the only explanation for rapid, noncatastrohic preservation of 3D dinosaurs: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, v 122, n 3, e2423019122, 1pp. Link to pdf

Feng, D., Tutken T., Beler, E. M., Herwartz, D., and Pack, A., 2025, Mesozoic atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstruted from dinosaur tooth enamel: Proceending of the Natinoal Academy of Science,. v 122, n. 33, e2504324122, 7pp. f="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394291044_Mesozoic_atmospheric_CO_2_concentrations_reconstructed_from_dinosaur_tooth_enamel">Link to pdf

Feineman, D., 2025, The Dinosaurs of Broomfield County: The Broomcorn Expres, 5.1, p. 19-26.

Flynn, A. G., Brusatte, S. L., Chiarenza, A. A., Garcia-Giron, J., Davis, A. J., Fenley IV, C. W., Leslie, C. E., Secord, R., Shelley, S., Weil, A., Heizler, M. T. Williamson, T. E., and Peppe, D. J., 2025, Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: Science, p. 400-404. Link to pdf

Guo, T., He, Y.-M., and Zhao, Q., 2025, Osteohistology on Liaoceratops yanzigouensis (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota: Vertabrata PalAsiatica, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Ibiricu, L. M., Cedrda, I. A., Caglianone, I. L., Cardozo, N. V., Alvarez, B. N., Cavasin, S. A., and Casal, C. A., 2025, Ornitopodos basales del centro-sur de Chubug, Patagonia central: consideraciones evolutivas, paleohistologicas y paleoambientales: Publicacion Electronica, v. 25, n. 1, p. 31-48. Link to pdf

Ishikawa, A., Zheng, W., Imai,Ishikawa, A., Zheng, W., Imai, T., Hattori, S., Shibata, M, Kawabe, S,. and Jin, X., 2025, Psittacosaurus houi, a longer snouted psittacousarid from the Lower Cretaceous Lujiatun Unit of Yixian Formation, CHina, with the synonym of the unresolved genus Hongshanosaurus revisited: PderJ 13:e19548 DI 10.7717/peerj.19547, 32pp. Link to pdf

Jimenez-Moreno, F. J., Ramirez-Velasco, A. A., Ocampo-cornejo, P., Velazquez-Castro, J., and Palomino-Merino, R., 2025, First population analysis in Hadrosauroid dinosaurs (Ornithopoda: Iguanodontia: Hadrosauroidea): Evolving Erth, v. 3, 100072, 10pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kubota, K., and Tanaka, K., 2025, Newly discovered archosaur remains and charophyte gyrogonites from the Lower Cretaceous (lower to middle Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation at Tambasasayama and Taba cites, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan: Fossils, the Palaeontological Socity of Japan, v. 118, p. 35-50. Link to pdf

Lockwood, J. A. F., Martill, D. M., and Maidment, S. C. R., 2025, The origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontian dinosaurs and the osteology of a new sail-back styracosternan (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of England: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 4, e70034, 38pp. (Istiorachis macarthurae) Link to pdf

Long, B. J. N., Zheng, W., Schweitzer, M., and Hallen, H. D., 2025, Resonance Raman confirms partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur remains: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A., v. 481:20250175, 18pp. Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., Ricketts, J. W., and Dalman, S. G., 2025, An ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of west Texas: In: The Fossil Record 11, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 101, p. 291-294.

Maidment, S. C. R., and Barrett, P. M., 2025, kae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA: Royal Society Open Science, v. 12:242195, 32pp. (Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae) Link to pdf

Maidment, S., Ouarhache, D., Butler, R. J., Boumir, K., Oussou, A., Ech-charay, K., El Khanchoufi, A., and Barrett, P. M., 2025, The world's oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Royal Socety Open Science, v. 12:241624, 8pp. Link to pdf

Maillon, J., Hidalgo-Sanz, J., Moreno-Azanza, M., and Gasca, J. M., 2025, Osteohistologia e implicaciones locomotoras a partir de una tibia de dinosaurio ornitopoda de la Foramcion El Castellar (Cretacico Inferior, Teruel): Geogaceta, v. 78, p. 71-74. Link to pdf

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Theropods, Ornithischians and Pterosaurs from South Asia-review with new taxa: a look at paleontology, stratigraphy and mineral potential of Pakistan: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 1, p. 22-68.

Mallon, J. C., Ryan, M. J., and Tokaryk, T. T., 2025, A Spinops sternbergorum (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) parietal from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Muddy Lake, Saskatchewan: The Canadian Field-Naturalist, v. 238,n. 4, p. 294-299. Link to pdf

MacPherson, A., 2025, Cheeky discovery: Scientists identify previously unknown soft tissue structrue in dinosaurs: Phys Org, published online, 5 pp. Link to pdf

 Milligan, J. R., Bamforth, E. L., Mangano, M. G., and Buatois, L. A., 2025, Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils: Ichnos, an international journal of plant and naimal traces, published online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Mondal, S., 2025, A new dinosaur species discovered in Cihna didn't roar, it chirped like a bird: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Dochev, D., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 144:41, 52pp. Link to pdf

Olsen, P. E., MacLennan, S. A., Sha, J., Kinney, S. T., Chang, C., Fang, Y., Liu, J., Silbeck, B. B., Chen, E., and Schoene, B., 2025, Reply to Emery-Wetherell: Taphonomy of Lujiatun 3D dinosaurs in inconsistent with death and burial by lahars: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, v. 122, n. 3, e2823567122, 1pp Link to pdf

Panciroli, E., Funston, G. F., Maidment, S. C. R., Butler, R. J., Benson, R. B. J., Crawfrod, B. L., Fair, M., Fraser, N. C., and Walsh, S., 2025, Spontaneous article: The frist and most complete dinosaur skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburg, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Perea, D., Verde, M, Mesa, V., Soto, M,. and Montenegro, F., 2025, Bioerosian structures on dinosaur bones probably made by multituberculate mammals and dermestid beetles (Guichon Formation, Late Cretaceous of Uruguay): Fossil Studies, v. 3, n. 2, 10pp. Link to pdf

Petermann, H., Raynolds, R. G., Herrmann, M. E., Lyson, T. R., Krause, D. W., O'Connor, P. M., Maccracken, S. A., Bastien, S., Toth, N., Clement, A. M., and Hagadorn, J. W., 2025, Denver's deepest dinosaur: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 60,n . 1, p. 1-14. Link to pdf

Peterson, K., and Armitage, M., 2025, Inorganic Cretaceous dinosaur remains are colonzied by specialized communities of fungi that thrive within bones and suport fungivore nematodes: Microscopy and Microanalysis, v. 31, n. 7, p. 1867-1870. Link to pdf

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Pintore, R., Houssaye, A., and Hutchison, J. R., 2025, How Femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornthopod locomotion and body size: Palaeontology, v. 68, part 4, e70016, 24pp. Link to pdf

Reguero, M. A., Hospitaleche, C A., O'Gorman, J. P., and Moly, J. J., 2025, The Antarctic fossil vertebrate collection of the Museo de la Plata: historical perspective of four decades of earth sciences investigations in Antarctica: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 248-277. Link to pdf

Sancarlo, F., Mandorlo, D., and Ford, T. L., 2025, Reassessment of Iguanodon galvensis classification: Mezosoic, 002, n. 4, p. 302-312. (Paulodon galvensis = Iguanodon galvensis) Link to pdf

Sanchez-Fenollosa, S., Verdu, F. J., Suner, M., and Cobos, A., 2025, Unravelling ornithopod diversity in the Late Jurassic coastal ecosystems of eatern Iberia (Spain): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia, v. 131, n. 3, p. 529-546. Link to pdf

Sereno, P. C., Saitta, E. T., Vidal, D., Myhrvold, N., Real, M. C., Baumgart, S. L., Bop, L. L., Keillor, T. M., Eriksen, M., and Drestler, K., 2025, Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template "mummification": Science, published online, 15pp. Link to pdf

Sharpe, H. S., Bell, P. R., Baylatry, I., Sissons, R., and Sullivan, C., 2025, Re-evaluation of a soft created Edmontosaurin, with implications of hadrosaurid life appearance adn diversity: The Anatomical Record, publiseh online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Sharpe, H. S., Wang, Y.-y, Dudgeon, T. W., Powers, M. J., Whitebone, s. A., Coppock, C. C., Dyer, A. D., and Sullivan, C., 2025, Skull morphology and histology indicate the presence of an unexpected buccal soft tissue structure in dinosaurs: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 29pp. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., Baipinaev, R. A., Parakhin, I. A., Bolotsky, I. Y., Bolotsky, Y. L., and Averianov, A. O., 2025, Evidence of osteophagia in Mesozic mammals: multituberculate tooth marks on a hadrosaurid maxilla from the Late Cretaceous of Russian Far East: Historical Gioloby, an international Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 9pp.

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. Link tLink to pdf

Titus, A. L., Irmis, R. B., Sampson, S. D., Zanno, L. E., Albright, L. B., Sertich, J. J. W., Roberts, E. M., and Farke, A. A., 2025, Twenty-five years of paleontlogical researchin Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mounument, Utah: public Lands in service to science and public: Prks, Stewardship Forum, v. 41, n. 3, p. 402-424. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Tuinstra, L., Thomas, B., Robinson, S., Pawlak, K., Elezi, G., Faull, K. F., and Tyalor, S., 2025, Evidence for endogenous collagen in Edmontosaurus fossil bone: Analytical Chemistry, published online, p. A-K. Link to pdf

Wroblewski, A. F.-J., 2025, Southermost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs: Lethaia, published online, 10pp. Link to pdf

Wang, D., Xing, L., Mallon, J. C., Miyashita, T., Liang, Z., Zhang, X., Ren, Z., Liang, Z., and Xian, M., 2025, First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China: Historical Biology, an international Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 13p. researchgate.net/publication/388362816_Historical_Biology_An_International_Journal_of_Paleobiology_ISSN_Print_First_occurrence_of_the_duck-billed_dinosaur_tribe_Lambeosaurini_Hadrosauridae_Lambeosaurinae_in_South_China_First_occurrence_of_">Link to pdf

Wang, L., Li, X., Wen, Q., Chen, J., and Reisz, R. 2025, Gastroliths in hatchling Psittacossaurs show early dietary habits: Science China EArth Sciences, published online, 8pp.

Woodruff, D. C., Horner, J. R., Goodwin, M. B., and Evans, D. C., 2025, The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: Effects of the Western Interior Seaay on North American pacycephalosurid evolution: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 205, n. 2, zlaf087, 27pp. (Brontotholus harmoni)

Yang, Y., King, J. L., and Xu, X., 2025, A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China: PeerJ 13:e19664 http:/doi.org/107717/peerj.19664, 57pp. (Pulaosaurus qinglong) Link to pdf

Yirka, B., 2025, Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur discovered in Morocco: Phys Org published online, 3pp.

Yun, G.-G., and Czepinski, L., 2025, Craniomandibular ontogeny of protoceratopsid dinosaurs indicates the possiblity of an ontogenetic dietary shift: Lethaia, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Yu, K., Wu, W., Sun, W., Chen, J., and Wang, X., 2025, New dinosaur teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, northeast China: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), v. 99, n. 2, p. 320-331. Link to pdf

Zhang, L., Cao, Z., and Zhao, Q., 2025, Deep learning-aided segmentation combined with finite element analysis reveals a more natural biomechanic of dinosaur fossil; Scientific Reports, v. 15:13964, 9pp. Link to pdf

Armored dinosaurs

Genus: Nova (1)

Brohisaurus MALKANI, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Dacentrurus armatus OWEN, 1875

= Miragaia longicollum MATEUS MADIMENT & CHRISTIANSEN, 2009

= Dacentrurus longicollum (MATEUS MADIMENT & CHRISTIANSEN, 2009) RAVEN & MAIDMENT, 2027

Species: Nova (2)

Brohisaurus kirthari MALKANI,. 2025

Zhongyuansaurus junchangi ZHANG, JIA, XU, YOU, GAO, LIU, LI & WANG, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Dacentrurus armatus OWEN, 1875

= Miragaia longicollum MATEUS MADIMENT & CHRISTIANSEN, 2009

= Dacentrurus longicollum (MATEUS MADIMENT & CHRISTIANSEN, 2009) RAVEN & MAIDMENT, 2027

Caton, E., 2025, First armored dinosaur hatchling discovered n China: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Craine, K., 2025, Dinosaurs in New Mexico thrived until the very end, study shows: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Costa, F., Maidment, S. C. R., Sequero, C., and Crespo, V. D., 2025, Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence form the most complete stegosaur from Europe: Comunicacoes Geologicos, v. 112, n. 1, p. 35-58. Link to pdf

Enchelmaier, M., 2025, Tiny find, big picture, reconstructing the ecology of a bygone era:  In: Australian age of Dinosaurs Journal, Issue 21, 88-89.

Flynn, A. G., Brusatte, S. L., Chiarenza, A. A., Garcia-Giron, J., Davis, A. J., Fenley IV, C. W., Leslie, C. E., Secord, R., Shelley, S., Weil, A., Heizler, M. T. Williamson, T. E., and Peppe, D. J., 2025, Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: Science, p. 400-404. Link to pdf

Kirkland, J. I., Hunte-Foster, R. K, Morgan, K,. McHugh, J. B., and Foster, J. R., 2025, Differentiating ankylosaur specimens in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in light of newly recovered skeletal elements of Mymoorapelta maysi from its type locality: Geology fo the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, P. 315-393. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Maidment, S. C. R., Ouarhache, D,. Ech-charay, K., Oussour, A., Boumir, K., El Khanchoufi, A., Park, A., Meade, L. E., Woodruff, D. C. ,Wills, S., Smith, M., Barrett, P. M., and Butler, R. J., 2025, Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur: Nature, published online, 6pp.

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Theropods, Ornithischians and Pterosaurs from South Asia-review with new taxa: a look at paleontology, stratigraphy and mineral potential of Pakistan: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 1, p. 22-68. (Brohisaurus kirthari)

Nelson, L. E., Doyon, J. A., Murray, A. M, Brinkman, D. B., and Holmes, R. B., 2025, A marginal marine fauna from the upper Dinosaur Park Formation, Canada: Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology, v. 13, p. 98-139. Link to pdf

Nogueira, R. A. ,Agnolin, F. L., Rozadilla, S., Aranciaga-Rolando, M., and Novas, F. E., 2025, Ankylosaurian remains from a new Campanian-Maastrichtian locality in Northern Patagonia, Argentina: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, published online, 10pp.

Penkalski, P., 2025, The ankylosaurid neomorphic skull elements: Cretaceous Research, v. 166 (106020), 14pp.

Reguero, M. A., Hospitaleche, C A., O'Gorman, J. P., and Moly, J. J., 2025, The Antarctic fossil vertebrate collection of the Museo de la Plata: historical perspective of four decades of earth sciences investigations in Antarctica: Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 248-277. Link to pdf

Rivera-Sylva, H. E., Aguillon-Martinez, M. C., Guzman-Gutierrez, Ruben, J., and Flores-Ventura, J., 2025, Ankylosaurians from Coahuila, Mexico: Palaeontologia Mexicana, v. 14, n. 1, p. 13-27. Link to pdf

Sanchez-Fenollosa, S., and Cobos, A., 2025, New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria): Vertebrate Zoology, v. 75, p. 147-171. (Dacentrurus armatus = Miragaia longicollum, = Dacentrurus longicollum) Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Treiber, T., Csiki-Sava, Z., Ebner, A. J., and Augustin, F. J., 2025, New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Hateg Basin, with  an overview of Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, published online, 28pp. Link to pdf

Zhang, J.-m., Jia, L., Xu, L., You, H.-l., Gao, D.-S., Liu, D., LI, Y., and Wang, Y.-c., 2025, New ankylosaurid material from the Lower Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province: Acta Palaeontologica Sincia, v. 64, n. 1, p. 60-73. (/em>) Link to pdf  Lü

Dinosaurs in general

Allen, M. L., Suarez, M. B., Adams, T. L., and Suarez, C. A., 2025, Ecohydrology and paleonenvironment of the Cretaceous (Albian) Cloverl Formation: insights from multi-taxon oxygen isotope analysis of vertebrate phosphates: Frontieres in Earth Science, v. 13:1497416, 16pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, A new twist in an old origin story: earliest dinosarus may have emerged in the Amazon: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil reocrd, say resarchers: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries: Study highlights importance of preserving fossilized soft tissue. Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Lichens and drones reveal dinosaur bones: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, 'Free-range' dinosaur parenting may have created surprisingly diverse ancient ecosystems: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Barrett, P. M., and Maidment, S. C. R., 2025, Dinosaur science: Biology Letters, v. 21: 20250297, 3pp. Link to pdf

Baumgart, S. L., Pre, C A. G., Bourke, J M., and Schachner, E. R., 2025, The living dinosaur: accomplishments and challenges of reconstructiong dinosaur physiology: Biology Letters, v. 21:20250126, 14pp. Link to pdf

Borsekowski, A. R., Damke, L. V. S., Garcia, M. S., Da-Rosa, A. A. S., 2025, Dinossaurinho ou Dinossaurao? Investigacao da variacao ntraespecifica nos primeiros dinossauros nao-avianos conhecidos: Terrae, Artigo, 9pp. Link to pdf

Byrne, P. J., Legendre, L. J., Echols, S., Farmer, C. G., Wu, Y.-H., and Huttenlocker, A. K., 2025, Diverging trends in erythrocyte size elucidate cardiovascular evolution in stem dinosaurs and crocodilians: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B., 292:20251286, 7pp. Link to pdf

Carpenter, K., and Taylor, L. H., 2025, A river runs throught it-the quarry sandstone and adjacent stata, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, 25-74pp. Link to pdf

Chapelle, K. E. J., Griffin, C. T., and Pol, D., 2025, Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny: Biology Letters, v. 21: 2024074, 12p.

Craine, K., 2025, Dinosaurs in New Mexico thrived until the very end, study shows: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Cross, E., Fraass, A. J., and Arbour, V. M., 2025, Taxonomic utility of isolated ankylosaurian dinosaur teeth using traditional and geometric morphometrics with implications for ankylosaur paleoecology: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Dean, C. D., Chiarenza, A. A., Doser, J. W., Farnsworth, A., Jones, L. A., Lyster, S., J., Oouthwaite, C. L., Valdes, P. J., Butler, R. J., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America: Current Biology, v. 35, 16pp. Link to pdf

Demers-Potvin, A. V., and Larsson, H. C. E., 2025, High local variability in evevation of the Oldman-Dinosaur Park Formation contact revealed by digital outcrop reconstruction, and implications for dinosaur biostatigraphy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada: Palaeontologia Electonica, v. 28,n . 1: A1341pp. Link to pdf

Demetriou, L. G., Benton, M J., and Duffin, C. J., 2025, Richard Owen's Dinosauria in context: the rehetoric, politics and legacy of the dinosaurs: Earth Science History, v. 44, n. 1, p. 151-190. Link to pdf

Dempsey, M., Allison, K., Cross, S. R. R., Maidment, S. C. R., Campione, N. E., and Bates, K. T., 2025, Limb bone robusticity is coupled with mass distribution in terrestrial tetrapods: Poryal Society Open Science, v. 12:2511-3, 22pp. Link to pdf

Dempsey, M., Cross, S. R. R., Maidment, S. C. R., Hutchinson, J. R., and Bates, K. T., 2025, New prespectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs: Biological Reviews, published online, 32pp. Link to pdf

Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S, Diaz, V. D., Heumann, I., and Schwarz, D., 2025, Virtual access to fossil & archival material from the german Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913): more than 100 years of data-meta-paradata management for improved standardisation: In: 3D Research challenges in Cultural Heritabe V, LNCS 19190, M. Ioannides et al editors, p. 89-102. Link to pdf

Enriquez, N. J., Campione, N. E., Hendrickx, C., and Bell, P. R., 2025, Epidermal scale growth, allometry and functuional in non-avian dnosaurs and extant reptiles: Journal of Anatomy, published online, 34pp. Link to pdf

Falkingham, P. L., 2025, Reconstructiong dinosaur locomotion: Biology Letters, v. 21: 20240441, 12pp.

Feng, D., Tutken T., Beler, E. M., Herwartz, D., and Pack, A., 2025, Mesozoic atmospheric CO2 concentrations reconstruted from dinosaur tooth enamel: Proceending of the Natinoal Academy of Science,. v 122, n. 33, e2504324122, 7pp. Link to pdf

Field, D. J., Burton, M. G,. Benito, J., Plateau, O., and Navalon, G., 2025, Whence the brids: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents: Biology Letters, v. 21: 20240500, 13pp. Link to pdf

Flynn, A. G., Brusatte, S. L., Chiarenza, A. A., Garcia-Giron, J., Davis, A. J., Fenley IV, C. W., Leslie, C. E., Secord, R., Shelley, S., Weil, A., Heizler, M. T. Williamson, T. E., and Peppe, D. J., 2025, Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: Science, p. 400-404. Link to pdf

Heath, J. A., Cooper, N., Upchurch, P., and Mannion, P. D., 2025, Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs: Current Biology, v. 35, 13pp.
Link to pdf

Holtz, Jr., T. R, 2026 (published 2025), Bringing p baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dionsaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in thier respective ecosystems: Italian journal of Geooscience, v. 145, n 2 13pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kubi, M,. Kleespies, M. W., and Wenzel, V., 2025, Dinosaurs as skeletons or lifelike replicas - effects on interest in extinct animals: Frontiers in Ecology and Eovlution, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Lopez, B. J. V., Selles, A., Prieto-Marques, A., and Vila, B., 2025, Habitat preference of the dinosaurs from the Ibero-Armorican domain (Upper Cretaceous, south-western Europe): Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:4, 11pp. Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., 2025, Paleocene non-avian dinosaurs: In: Special Section  200 Years of Dinosaurs sate of the art and future Directions: Italian Journal of Geosciences, v. 144, n. 2, p. 147-161.

Maidment, S., and Butler, R. J., 2025, New frontiers in dinosaur exploration: Biology Letters, v. 21:  20250045, 12pp. Link to pdf

Manley, G. A., and Koppl, C., 2025, When dinosaurs hear like barn owls: pitfalls and caveats in assessing hearing in dinosaurs: Biology Letters, v. 21: 20240680, 7pp. Link tLink to pdf

Mestriner, G., Funston, G. F., Marsola, J. C A., Nesbitt, S. J., Langer, M. C,. Evans, D. C, and LeBlanc, A. r. H., 2025, Rethinking thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution: Biology, Letters, v. 21:20250316, 9pp. Link to pdf

Pickles, B. J., Brown, C. M., Herridge-Berry, S., Martin, C. R., Dergousoff, M., Gilmar, T., Bell, P. R., and Peddle, D. R., 2025, Remote sensing of lichens with drones for dectecting dinosaur bones: Current Biology, Magazine, v. 35, R1044-R1045. Link to pdf

Rech, M., 2025, Triassic life: an overview of ancient amphibians, crocodile relatives, early dinosaurs and mammalian ancestors: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Scott, M., Gamble, J. A., Brown, C. M., and Brink, K. S., 2025, Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology: Biological Reviews, published online, 18pp. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., and Kolchanov, V. V., 2025, Determination of individual age and ontogenetic stages of fossil tetrapods using paleohistological methods: Zoologischeskii Zhural, v. 203, n. 6, p. 15-30. f="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393361711_Determination_of_Individual_Age_and_Ontogenetic_Stages_of_Fossil_Tetrapods_Using_Paleohistological_Methods">Link to pdf

Theodor, J. M., Shimida, K., Curry Rogers, K, and Sumida, S., 2025, Fossils are scientific evidence and shouldn't be auctioned for millions to private buyers, say palaeontologists: Phys Org, publihed online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Titus, A. L., Irmis, R. B., Sampson, S. D., Zanno, L. E., Albright, L. B., Sertich, J. J. W., Roberts, E. M., and Farke, A. A., 2025, Twenty-five years of paleontlogical researchin Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mounument, Utah: public Lands in service to science and public: Prks, Stewardship Forum, v. 41, n. 3, p. 402-424. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Tucker, R. T., King, M. R., Delgerzaya, P., Freimuth, W. J., Chinzorig, T., Tsogtbaatar, K., Takaski, R., Saneyoshi, M., Chiarenza, A. A., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, Protracted intercontinental aridification preserved within the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Eastern Gobi Basin, Mongolia: Sedimentology, published online, 39pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Tweet, J. S., DeBlieux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I, Warner-Cowgill, E., and Santucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park Service Areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-291, A-1 to A-62. Link to pdf

Wang, H., Sterli, J., Dupret, V., Blom, H., Berta, A., Turner, S., Han, D., Xu, L, and Pan, Z., 2025, A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evoluving methodologies; Royal Society Open science, v. 12 25063, 19pp. Link to pdf

Weber, M., Weber, K., Winkler, D., and Tutken, T., 2025, Calcium and strontium isotopes in extant diapsid reptiles reflect dietary tendencies --a reference frame for diet reconstructions in teh fossil record: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, n. 292: 20242002: 12pp. Link to pdf

Werneburg, I., and Hossfield, U., 2025, Flying turtles in the earliest trees of life: scientific transparency in the phylogenetic works of Ernst Haeckel: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:17, 13pp. Link to pdf

Yamamura, D., and Suarez, C., 2025, Vertebrate skeletal remains as paleohydrologic proxies: complex hydrologic setting in the Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation: Geosciences, v. 15, 262, 16pp. Link to pdf


Aves (Mesozoic)

Genus: Nova (3)

Baminornis CHEN, WANG, DONG, ZHOU, ZU, DENG, XU, ZHANG, WANG, DU, LIN, LIN & ZHOU, 2025

Chromeornis O'CONNOR, WANG, CLARK, KUO, DAVILA, WANG, ZHENG & ZHOU, 2025

Kunpengornis HUANG, WANG, CAU, MAO, LIU & WANG, 2026 (published 2025)

Species: Nova (3)

Baminornis zhenghensis CHEN, WANG, DONG, ZHOU, ZU, DENG, XU, ZHANG, WANG, DU, LIN, LIN & ZHOU, 2025

Chromeornis funkyi O'CONNOR, WANG, CLARK, KUO, DAVILA, WANG, ZHENG & ZHOU, 2025

Kunpengornis anhuimusei HUANG, WANG, CAU, MAO, LIU & WANG, 2026 (published 2025)

Anonymous, 2025, Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, China Jurassic fossil discovery sheds light on bird origin: Phys Org, publihsed online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, From dinosaurs to birds; the origins of feather formation: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birds: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Birds nested alongside dinosaurs in the Arctic: fossil find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years: Phys Org, published online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, The fossil bird that choked to death on rocks, and no one knows why: Phys Org, published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Atterholt, J., Burton, M. G., Wedel, M. J., Benito, J,. Fricano, E., and Field, D. J., 2025, Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis: The Anatomical Record, publisehd online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Atterholt, J., O'Connor, J. K., and You, H., 2025, Osteohistology of enantiornithine birds from the Lower Cretacoeus Xiagou Formation: Geobios, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Burton, M. G., Benito, J., Mellor, K,. Smith, E., Martin-Silverstone, E., O'Connor, P., and Field, D. J., 2025, The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs: Philosphical Transactions B., v. 380:20230428, 14pp. Link to pdf

Buscalioni, A. D., 2025, Scientific and Artisitic represenatations in avian evolution: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, published online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Cai, C., Johnson, K. P., Fu, Y., Gustafsson, D. R., Azar, D., Su, Y., Xuan, Q., Engel, M. S., and Huang, D., 2025, Cretaceous chewing-louse eggs on enantiornithine birds: National Science Review, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Chen, R, Wang, M., Dong, L., Zhou, G., Zu, X., Keng, K., Xu, L., Zhang, C., Wang, L., Du, H., Lin, G., Lin, M., and Zhou, Z., 2025, Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China: Nature, v. 638, p. 441-448. (Baminornis zhenghensis)

Cooper, R. L., and Milinkovitch, M. C., 2025, In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway anatagomism temporily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken: PLos Biology, https://doi.org/10.1371;journal .pbio.3003061, 23pp. Link to pdf


Duan, M., LI, L., Wang, S., Stidham, T. A., Wang, R., Dong, X., and Hu, D., 2025, Morphology of the forelimb of Confuciusornis and its implications for early flight evolution: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 205, n. 3, dlaf149, 18pp.

Field, D. J,. Burton, M. G., Benito, J., Plateau, O., and Navalon, G., 2025, Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecdents: Biology Letters, v. 21:20240500, 13pp. Link to pdf

Foth, C., van de Kamp, T. Tischlinger, H., Kantelis, T., Carney, R. M., Zuber, M., Hamann, E., Wallaard, J J. W., Lenz, N., Rauhut, O. V. M., and Frey, E., 1015, A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnscheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic): Fossil Record, v. 28 , n. 1, p. 17-43.

Huang, J., Wang, X., Cau, A., Mao, L., Liu, Y., and Wang, Y., 2026 (published 2025), A new euornithine from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of China reveals the frist radiation of fish-eating birds: Cretaceous Research, v. 179: 106244, 11pp. (Kunpengornis anhuimusei)

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Li, Z., Hu, J., Stidham, T. A., Ye, M., Wang, M., Pan, Y., Zhao, T., Li, J., Zhou, Z., and Clarke, J. A., 2025, Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enanthornithine bird from the Jehol Biota: eLife, v. 14:rP1-3628, 21pp. Link to pdf

O'Connor, J. K., 2025, Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societh, series B, v. 380:20230426, 12pp. Link to pdf

O'Connor, J., Clark, A., Kuo, P.-C., Kiat, Y., Fabbri, M., Shinya, A., Van Beek, C., Lu, J., Wang, M., and Hu, H., 2025, Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of avian bauplan: Nature, published online, 7pp.

O'Connor, J. Wang, X., Clark, A., Kuo, P.-C., Davila, R., Wang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhou, Z., 2025, A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 3, a.56, 38pp. (Chromeornis funkyi) Link to pdf

Terol, J. C., Perez-Ramos, A., O'Connor, J. K., Sanz, J. L., and Serrano, F J., 2025, Micro-CT reconstruction reveals new information about the phylogenetic position and locomotion of the Early Cretaceous brid Iberomesornis romerali: Geobios, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Torres, C. R., Clarke, J. A., Groenke, J R., Lamanna, M. C., MacPhee, R. D. E., Musser, G. M., Roberts, E. M., and O'Connor, P. M., 2025, Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity: Nature, v. 638, p. 146-151.

Wilson, L. N., Ksepka, D. T., Wilson, J. P., Gardner, J. D., Erickson, G. M., Brinkman, D., Brown, C. M., Eberle, J. J., Organ, C. L., and Druckenmiller, P. S., 2025, Arctic bird nesting back to the Cretaceous: Science, published online, 974-978.

Xu, Y., 2025, Dinosaur origin of brids: evidence and research methods of cranium evolution: Dean&  Francis, ISSN 2959-409x, 5pp. Link to pdf

Zhang, Y.-Y., Tang, J.-W., Wang, Y., and Wang, S., 2025, Medulla-free bar rami highlight the morphological diversity of early feathers: Zoological Reserach, v. 46, n. 4, p. 773-787. Link to pdf


Synapsids

Pelycosaurs

Laurin, M., and Didier, G., 2025, The rise and fall of Varanopidae (Amniota, Synapsida): Frontiers in Earth Science, publsihed online, 16pp. Link to pdf

Mann, A., Nelson, W. J., Hook, R. W., and Elrick, S. D., 2025, The lost Permo-Carboniferous vertebrate deposit of Horseshoe Bend ner Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois: Journal of Paleontology, v. 98, n. 5, p. 838-854. Link to pdf

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J,. Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

Reisz, R. R., and Modesto, S. P., 2025, Re-evaluation of the Carboniferous tetrpod Asaphestera platyris with comments on the amniote fauna of the Joggins Formation, Canada: Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, part 5, 11pp. Link to pdf

Sumida, S. S., 2025, Review of the Pelycosauria revisited: Pelycosaurian-grade synapsida, thier role in updated interpretations of early amniotes, and thier importance in understanding the orign of modern terrestrial food webs and ecosystems: Annual Reviews Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, published onlien, v. 56, p. 623-645.

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Theriodontia

Genus: Nova (3)

Cradognathus LLOYD & DURAND, 2025

Jiuciayuangnathus LIU & ABDALA, 2025

Pontognathus GAETANO, ABDALA, MANCUSO & VEGA, 2025

Species: Nova (4)

Arctops umulunshi MANN & SIDOR, 2025

Bienotheroides wucaiensis LIU, XU, CLARK & BI, 2025

Jiuciayuangnathus donfusus LIU & ABDALA, 2025

Pontognathus ignotus GAETANO, ABDALA, MANCUSO & VEGA, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Cradognathus albanensis (BRINK, 1959) LLOYD & DURAND, 2025

= Hewittia albanensis BRINK, 1959

Acker, A. ,Peecook, B. R., Sidor, C. A., and Whitney, M. R., 2025, The first occurrence of Cyonosaurus (Therapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the Luangwa Basin of Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, n. 1, P. 181-194.

Anonymous, 2025, High-resolution fossil scans reveal four-step process of mammalian jaw joint evolution: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Engineering analysis of Thrinaxodon fossils uncovers unexpectedly advanced hearing in early mammal kin: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Bolton, A. D., Mangera, T., and Benoit, J., 2025, 150 years of synapsid paleoneurology: the origins of the mammalian brain, behavior, sense organs and physiology: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 29pp. Link to pdf

Cookson, N. I., and Mann, A., 2025, Cranial osteology and reassessment of the historically collected South African gorgonopsians FMNH UC 1512 (Lycaenops cf. L. anguisticeps) and AMNH FARB 5537 (Lycaenops anguisticeps): Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. v 13, P. 48-66. Link to pdf

During, M A. D., Matelsky, J. K., Gustafsson, F. K., Voeten, D. F. A. E., Chen, D., Wester, B. A., Kording, K. P., Ahlberg, P. E., and Schon, T. B., 2025, Automated segmetation of synchrotron-scanned fossils: Fossil Record, v. 28, n. 1, p. 103-114. Link to pdf

Filippini, F. S., Abdala, F., and Cassini, G. H., 2025, Techniques for digital restoration of cranial elements on three-dimensional surface models: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 29,n. 2: a26, 17pp. Link to pdf

Gaetano, L. C., Abdala, F., Mancuso, A. C., and Vega, N., 2025, New traversodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic Chanares Formation: Publicacion Electronica, v. 25, n. 2, p. 49-67. (Pontognathus ignotus) Link to pdf

Huttenlocker, A. K., Browning, C., Peecook, B. R., Smith, R. M. H., and Viglietti, P. A., 2025, The stratigaphic record of the therocephalian Theriognathus (Synapsida) and its utility as a biostrtigraphic index in Karoo-aged basins: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 222-223.

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Kulik, Z. T., 2025, Disparate life histories in coeval Triassic cynodonts and thier implications for the evolution of mammalian life histories: Paleobiology, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Kulik, Z. T., 2025, Bone histology of gorgonopsian skeleton from the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, n. 1, P. 166-180.

Liu, J., and Abdala, F., 2025, A new small baurioid therocephalian from the Lower Triassic Jiucaiyuan Formation, Xingjian, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, published online, 24pp. (Jiuciayuangnathus donfusus)

Liu, J., Xu, X., Clark, J. M., and Bi, S., 2025, Bienotheroides wucaiensis sp. nov., a new tritylodontid (Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, China: The Anatomical Record, published online, 35pp. (Bienotheroides wucaiensis) Link to pdf

Lloyd, J. K., and Durand, F., 2025, A new akidnognathid synapsid specimen from the Permian of Cradock, South Africa and the revision of Hewittia albanensis: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 2, p. 339-355. (Cradognathus albanensis = Hewittia albanensis) Link to pdf

Lloyd, J., and Durand, F, 2025, Die ontdekking van 'n nuwe lid van die Akidnognathidae, die karnivore wat die bestaan van Pangea Bevestig: South African Hournal for Science and Technology, v. 44, n. 1, p. 120-128. Link to pdf

Macungo, Z., Benoit, J., and Araujo, R., 2025, Inostrancevia africana, the first diagnosable gorgonopsian (Therapsida, Synapsida) from the Metangula graben (Mozambique): new anatomical observations adn biostratigraphic implications: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:12, 13pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Mann, A., and Sidor, C. A., 2025, Arctops umulunshi, sp. nov. (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) from the Upper Madummabsia Mudstone Formation of Zambia, with new information of gorgonopsian postcranial anatomy: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, n. 1, o, 195-221,

Mao, F., Jiang, S., liu, J., Ren, J., Ye, Y., Liu, Y., Shen, X,. Wang, T., Wang, G., Wang, P., Chen, J., and Meng, J., 2025, Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs; Nature, published online, 8pp.

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J,. Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J., Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

Ren, J., Liu, L, Han, F., Xu, X., Clark, J. M., Liu, J., Meng, J,. and Mao, F., 2025, A new specimen of the tritylodontid Bienotheroides zigongensis (Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Wucaiwan area of Xinjiang, China, and phylogeny of Tritylodontidae: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 477, 117pp. Link to pdf

Roese-Miron, L., and Kerber, L., 2025, Ontogeny of a Brazilian Late Traissic Traversodontid (Cynodontia, Cynognathia): anatomical and paleoecological implications: Journal of Morphology, published online, 19pp. Link to pdf

Salcido, C. J., Gill, P. G., Martinelli, A. G., Rawson, J. R. G., Corfe, I. J., Soares, M B., Francischini, H., Schultz, C. L., and Rayfield, E. J., 2025, Functional morphology adn biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite preformance in the sister taxon of Mammaliformes: Palaeontology, v. 68, part 5, e70026, 17pp. Link to pdf

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

Wang, H., Xie, J., Yu, Z., Hai, L., Zhu, Z., Zheng, W., and Wang, Y., 2025, Lower jaw morphology of the last surviving tritylodontid Fossiomanus sinensis from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, Liaoning Province, China: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 2, p. 285-289. Link to pdf

Deinocephalia

Genus: Nova (3)

Madumabisa KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FROBISH, 2025

Mdomowabata ANGIELCZYK & OTOO, 2025

Lystrosauravus KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FROBISH, 2025

 Species: Nova (5)

Aulacephalodon kapoliwace THOMAS, ANGIELCZYK & PEECOOK, 2025

Euptychognathus kingae KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FROBISH, 2025

Lystrosauravus bothae KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FROBISH, 2025

Madumabisa opainion KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FROBISH, 2025

Mdomowabata trilobops ANGIELCZYK & OTOO, 2025

Abbott, C. P., Martinez, S. A., Lungmus, A. K., Magallanes, I., and Angielczyk, 2025, The postcranial anatomy of Kembawacela kitchingi (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and the functional diversity of cistecephalid forelimbs: Journal of Vertebrate Paletonlogy, Memoir 25, v. 45, supplement 1, p. 147-165.

Angielczyk, K. D., and Otoo, B. K. A., 2025, A new cryptodont dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Lopingian Usili Formation, Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzanai: Journao of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memor 13, v. 45, supplement to n. 1, p. 101-126. (Mdomowabata trilobops)

Benoit, J., and Jodder, J., 2025, The palaeoneurology of a new specimen of the Middle Triassic dicynodont synapsid Kombuisia frerensis: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70,n . 2, p. 369-374. Link to pdf

Bolton, A. D., Mangera, T., and Benoit, J., 2025, 150 years of synapsid paleoneurology: the origins of the mammalian brain, behavior, sense organs and physiology: Journal of Paleontology, published online, 29pp. Link to pdf

Demirjian, 2025, Case 3802 - Proposal to remove Dicynodon turpior Huene, 1935 (Synapsida, Dicynodontia) from the official list of specific name in Zoology: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 82, p. 31-33.

Kammerer, C. F., Angielczyk, K. D., and Fröbisch, J., 2025, Periman origins of the Lystrosauridae (Therapsida: Dicynodonta): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 43-73. (Euptychognathus kingae, Madumabisa opainion, Lystrosauravus bothae)

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for teh evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Lafferty, T., Norton, L. A., Duhame, A., and Benoit, J., 2025, Descritpon of the skull, braincase, and dentition of Moschognathus whaitsi (Dinocephalia, Tapinocephalia), and its palaeobiological and behavioral implications: The Anatomical Record, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., 2025, Stratigraphic position and age of the Upper Triassic Placerias Quarry, East-Central Arizona, USA: Fossil Studies, v. 4, n. 8, 22pp. Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., Peng, H., Yang, W., Wan, M., Liu, J., and Liu, F., 2025, Refugium amidst ruins: Unearthing the lost flora that escaped the end-Permian mass extinction: Science Advances, v. 11, eads5614 10pp. Link to pdf

Maisch, M. W., 2025, Justice for Protobatrachus Piveteau, 1936 (Lissamphibia: Anura)- the fossil vertebrate replacement names coined by Oskar Kuhn criticaly re-evaluated: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, published online, 24pp.

Peecook, B R., Sidor, C. A., McIntosh, J. A., Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M. H., Tabor, N. J,. Kammerer, C. F., Lungmus, J. K., Museba, J., Tolan, S., Whitney, M. R., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2025, Successive assemblages of Upper Permian vertebrates in the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, v. 45, supplement to number 1, p. 234-257.

Ponstein, J., MacDougall, M. J., Schaeffer, J., Kammerer, C. F., and Frobisch, J., 2025, Mandibular form and function is more disparate in amniotes than in non-amniote tetrapods from late Palaeozoic: PeerJ 13:e20243 DOI 10:7717/peerj.20243, 3800. Link to pdf

de Souza, R. J. L., Da Silva, J. L., Neto, V. D. P., Machado, A. F., Escobar, J. A. and Pinheiro, F. L. 2025, Revisiting a long-overlooked skull: implicaitons for the distribution of Dinodontosaurus brevirostris (Kannemeyeriiformes) in the Brazilian Triassic: The Anatomical Record, published online, 17pp. Link to pdf

Shipps, B. K., Sidor, C. A., and Angielcyzyk, K. D., 2025, Dicynodontoides kubwa, sp. nov. (Synapsida: Anomodontia), a new large emydopoid from the base of the Usili Formation (Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Memoir 23, p. 127-148.

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

da Silva, J. L., Neto, V. D. P., Kammerer, C F., de Souza, J. L. R., Bulak, B. A., Soares, M B., Simoes, T. R., and Pinheiro, F. L., 2025, Osteology and ontogeny of the Permian dicynodont Rastodon procurvidens (Synapsida, Therapsida) based on micro-CT scanning and its phylogenetic and biogeographical implications: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204, v. 4 zlaf083, 34pp. Link to pdf

Sidor, C. A., and Angielczxyk, K. D., 2025, Introduction to vertebrate evolution in the Permian rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 1-9.

Thomas, H. N., Angielczyk, K. D., and Peecook, B. R., 2025, The first geikiid dicynodont, Aulacephalodon kapoliwacela, sp. nov. (Therapsida, Anomodontia), from the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Zambia:  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 23, Volume 45, Suplement to Number 1, p. 74-100.


 Mammals (Mesozoic)

Genus: Nova (4)

Camurocondylus MAO, JIANG, LIU, REN, YE, LIU, SHEN, WANG, WANG, WANG, CHEN & MENG, 2025

Ravjaa OKOSHI, TAKASAKI, CHIBA, NATORI, SANEYOSHI, TAKAHASHI, KODAIRA, HAYASHI, ISHIGAKI, MAINBAYAR & TSOGTBAATAR, 2025

Novaculodon WESTON, SWEETMAN, KEAN, WOOD, MARTILL & SMITH, 2025

Solanutherium CONNELLY, CARDOZO, MONTGOMERY & ROUGIER, 2025

Species: Nova (6)

Arboroharamiya fucus LI, D'ALBA, DEBRUNYN, DOBSON, ZHOU, CLARKE, VINTHER, LI & SHAWKEY, 2025

Camurocondylus lufengensis MAO, JIANG, LIU, REN, YE, LIU, SHEN, WANG, WANG, WANG, CHEN & MENG, 2025

Magallanodon terrwerr CHIMENTO, AGNOLIN, MOYANO-PAZ, MANABE, TSUIJIJI & NOVAS, 2025

Novaculodon mirabilis WESTON, SWEETMAN, KEAN, WOOD, MARTILL & SMITH, 2025

Ravjaa ishiii OKOSHI, TAKASAKI, CHIBA, NATORI, SANEYOSHI, TAKAHASHI, KODAIRA, HAYASHI, ISHIGAKI, MAINBAYAR & TSOGTBAATAR, 2025

Solanutherium walshi CONNELLY, CARDOZO, MONTGOMERY & ROUGIER, 2025

Synonym: Nova (1)

Groebertherium allenensis (ROUGIER, CHORNOGUBSKY, CASADIO, ARANGO & GIALLOMBARDO, 2008) CONNELLY, CARDOZO, MONTGOMERY & ROUGIER, 2025

= Barberenia allenensis ROUGIER, CHORNOGUBSKY, CASADIO, ARANGO & GIALLOMBARDO, 2008

Anonymous, 2025, Mammalian outer ear traced back to ancient fish gills: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Fossil of a new mammal species from the age of dinosaurs discovered in Mongolia's Gobi desert: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing astroid, research revals: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, New species of tiny Cretaceous mammal discovered on the Dorset Coast: Phys Org, published onlien, 5 pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Scientist find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Averianov, A. O., and Sinitsa, M. V., 2025, Petrosal bone of a stem placental mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Uzbekistan: Proceedings of the Zoological Institue R. A. S., v. 329, n.4, p. 409-420. Link to pdf

Averianov, A. O., Lopatin, A. V., Slobodin, D. A., Skutchas, P. P., and Vladimirova, O. N., 2025, Replacement of molariform teeth in amphidontid eutriconodontan Acinacodus and other Mesozoic mammals: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeonenvironmtns, published on line, 6pp.

Chenal, E., Diependaal, H. J,. Schulp. A. S., and Reumer, J. W. F. ,2025, A new Late Triassic (Rhaetian or Late Norian) Mammaliaformes fossil locality: Avillers (Vosges, France): Revue de Paleobiologie, Geneve, v. 44, n. 1, 6pp. ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/388792851_Chenal_et_al_2025_RevPaleobiol_Late_Triassic_Mammaliaformes_from_Avillers">Link to pdf

Chimento, N. R., Agnolin, F. L., Moyano-Paz, D., Manabe, M., Tsuihiji, T., adn novas, F. E., 2025, New fossil mammal remains from the Chorrillo Formation (Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 45, n. 2, e2531263, 24pp. (Magallanodon terrwerr)

Connelly, B. E., Cardozo, M. S., Montgomery, J. D., and Rougier, G. W., 2025, New mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Allen Formation (Patagonia, Argentina) and reassessment of meridiolestidan diversity: Cretaceous Research, v. 162, 29pp. (Solanutherium walshi, Groebertherium allenensis = Barberenia allensis)

Hai, L., Wang, Y., Wang, H,. Gao, Y., Zhu, Z., You, H., and Wang, Y., 2025, A juvenile specimen of Sinoconodon rigneyi with new information on pattern of tooth replacement: Journal of Vertebrtae Paleontology, v. 44, n 4, e2442473, 7pp.

Hand, S. J., Wilson, L. A. B., Lopez-Aguirre, C., Houssaye, A., Archer, M., Bevitt, J. J., Evans, A. R., Halim, A. Y., Hung, T., Rich, T. H., Vickers-Righ, P., and Beck, R. M. D., 2025, Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia): Proceedings of National Academy of Science, v. 122, n. 1; e2413569122, 12pp. Link to pdf

Janis, C. M., Martin-Serra, A., Theodor, J. M., and Scott, C. S., 2025, Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous: Palaeontology, v. 68, part 2, 14pp. Link to pdf

Korneisel, D. E., and Maddin, H. C., 2025, Review of the tetrapod skull-neck boundary: implications for the evolution of the atlas-axis complex: Biological Reviews, published online, 36pp. Link to pdf

Li, R., D'Alba, L., Debruyn, G., Dobson, J L., Zhou, C.-F., Clarke, J. A., Vinther, J., Li, Q., and Shawkey, M. D,. 2025, Mesozoic mammaliaforms illumainte the origns of pelage coloration: Science, v. 287, p. 1193-1198. (Arboroharamiya fucus)

Li, X., BLi, X., Bi, S., Clarke, J. A., li, Z., Zhu, X., liu, Q., Peng, Y., Zhao, L., Li, Z., and Pan, Y., 2025, High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals: Sciecne, Advances, v. 11, eadw8707, 11pp. Link to pdf

Lopatin, A. V., and Averianov, A. O., 2025, First multitubercualte mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formaiton at Gurilin Tsav locality in Mongolia: v. 521, p. 93-97.

Luo, Z.-X., Zhou, C.-F., Li, P., and Neander, A. I., 2026, Cranial and middle ear structures of the Early Cretaceous Mammal Origolestes (Spathacotherioidea, Trechnotheria, Mammalia): Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeonenvionrments, v. 106, p. 883-915. Link to pdf

Mao, F., Jiang, S., liu, J., Ren, J., Ye, Y., Liu, Y., Shen, X,. Wang, T., Wang, G., Wang, P., Chen, J., and Meng, J., 2025, Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs; Nature, published online, 8pp. (Camurocondylus lufengensis).

Okoshi, T., Takasaki, R., Chiba, K,. Natori, M., Saneyoshi, M., Takahashi, A., Kodaira, S., Hayashi, S., Ishigaki, S., Mainbayar, B., and Tsogtabaatar, K., 2025, New Late Cretaceous zhelestid mammal from the Bayanshiree Formation, Mongolia: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 1, p. 193-203. (Ravjaa ishiii) Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, New Jurassic mammalian fossil discovered with an unusual tooth replacment pattern: Phys org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Oster, S., 2025, Oldest known docodontan fossil found in Greenland narrows the evolutionary gap: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Pimentel, R. J., Barroso-Barcenilla, F., Berrocal-Casero, M., and Callapez, P. M., 2025, Updated synthesis of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from the northern onshore sector of the Portuguese West Iberian margin: Geosciences, .v 15, 477, 34pp. Link to pdf

Rech, M,. 2025, Triassic life: an overview of ancient amphibians, crocodile relatives, early dinosaurs and mammalian ancestors: Phys Org, puboished online, 6pp. Link to pdf

Schultz, J. A., 2025, A perspective from the Mesozoic: evolutonary changes of the mammalian skull and their influence on feeding efficiency and high-frequency hearing: The Anatomical Record, published onlein, 16pp. Link to pdf

Skutschas, P. P., Baipinaev, R. A., Parakhin, I. A., Bolotsky, I. Y., Bolotsky, Y. L., and Averianov, A. O., 2025, Evidence of osteophagia in Mesozic mammals: multituberculate tooth marks on a hadrosaurid maxilla from the Late Cretaceous of Russian Far East: Historical Gioloby, an international Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 9pp.

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Weston, B. T., Sweetman, S. C., Kean, J., Wood, C., Martill, D. M., and Smith, R. E., 2025, A new multituberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Lulworth Formation (Cretaceous, Berriasian) of Dorset, England; Proceedings of the Geologists' Associtaion, published onlien, 13pp. (Novaculodon mirabilis) Link to pdf

Yirka, B., 2025, Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggests they had dark, uniformly dull coloring: Phys Org, published online, 3pp.  Link to pdf


Egg

 

Ichnogenus: Nova (1)

Wakkaoolithus BLAS, GALOBART, ARCHER, STEIN, HAND & SELLES, 2025

Ichnospecies: Nova (3)

Parafaveoloolithus wannanensis MAO, WANG, HUANG, ZHU, CHEN & WANG, 2025

Parafaveoloolithus xixiaensis HE, LI, ZHANG, HUANG, CAO, LI & ZHU, 2025

Wakkaoolithus godthelpi BLAS, GALOBART, ARCHER, STEIN, HAND & SELLES, 2025

Synonyom: Nova (2)

Parafaveoloolithus zhangdanensis (ZHENG, ET AL, 2018) HE, LI, ZHANG, HUANG, CAO, LI & ZHU, 2025

= Duvovallumoolithus shangdanensis ZHENG, ET AL, 2018

Propagoolithus guoqingsiensis (FANG ET AL, 2000) HE, LI, ZHANG, HUANG, CAO, LI & ZHU, 2025

= Dendroolithus guoqingsiensis FANG ET AL., 2000

Anyonymous, 2025, Dinosaur eggshell study confirms biogenic origin of secondary eggshell units: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Newly dated 85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaur eggshells unlock a new way to tell time in the fossil record: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Blas, X. P. I., Galobart, A., Archer, M., Stein, M., HAnd, Z., and Selles, A., 2025, Australia's oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2560010, 10pp. (Wakkaoolithus godthelpi)

Chen, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, /j., Zhao, B., Zhang, S., Ning, Y., Wang, G., he, K., Zhang, W., Yu, D., li, J., Zou, Y., Chen, G., Li, M, and Cheng, H., 2025, Geological age of the Yunyang dinosaur eggs revealed by in-situ carbonate U-Pb dating and its scientific impications: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 13:163883811pp. Link to pdf

He, Q., Li, S,. Zhang, S., Huang, Y., Cao, X., Li, H., and Xhu, M., 2025, A new oospecies of Faveoloolithidae form teh Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China and the revision of Parafaveolollithus: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 4, p. 795-810. (Parafaveoloolithus zhangdanensis = Duvovallumoolithus shangdanensis, Propagoolithus guoqingsiensis = Dendroolithus guoqingsiensis, Parafaveoloolithus xixiaensis) Link to pdf

Hedge, J., Tucker, R. T., Makovicky, P. J., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountian Formation, Utah: PlOS One, v. 20, n. 2:e0314689, 33pp. Link to pdf

Mao, L., Wang, Q., Huang, J.-D., Zhu, X.-F., Cheng, Y.-B., and Wang, X.-L., 2025, New oospecies of Parafaveoloolithus from the Lower Cretaceous of Xiuning, Anhui Province: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, published online, 7pp. (Parafaveoloolithus wannanensis) Link to pdf

Trif, N, Pirnea, R., Cernansky, A., Schwarzhans, W., Balc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A,. Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K., 2025, A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozes Formation (Petresti, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 2, a32, 62pp. Link to pdf

Tucker, R. T., Venter, K. E., Lana, C,. Roberts, E. M., Chinzorig, T., Tsogtbaatar, K., and Zanno, L. E., 2025, U-Pb calcite age dating of fossil eggshell as an accurate deep time geochronometer: Communications Earth & Environment, 6:872, 9pp. Link to pdf

van Der Linden, T. T. P., Wallaard, J. J. W., de Rijke, M. and Fraaije, R. H. B., 2025, The first description of dinosaurian eggshell from the Maastrichtian Lance Formation, Wyoming, North America: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 70, n. 3, p. 573-579. Link to pdf

Wang, Q., Dong, Z., Mao, L., Zhu, X.-F., Chen, Y.-B., Huang, J.-D., and Ding, H.-D., 2025, The first discovery of non-avian dinosaur egg and bone fossils in the Hefei Basin: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Zhang, S., Choi, S., Kim, N.-H., Xie, J., Park, Y., Plumber, O., and Selles, A. G., 2025, Biogenic origin of secondary eggshell units in dinosaur eggshells elucidates lost biomineralization process in maniraptorna dinosaurs: Science Advances, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf

Zhu, X. F., Li, Y., Wang, Q., Qiu, R., Wang, B., Chang, F., Xi, L., Gao, D., Lu, D., and Wang, X., 2025, Description of a new clutch of Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis reveals possible parataxonomic affiliation of dromaeosaurid egg: Historical Biology, an international Journal of Paleobiology, 16pp.

Zhu, X.-F., Chang, F., Li, Y., Zhang, X.-H., Gao, D.-S., Wang, Q., Qiu, R., Wang, X.-L., Liu, D., Jia, S.-H., Jia, G.-H., Zhang, J.-H., and Xu, L., 2025, The first discovery of non-avian dinosaur egg clutch (Macroolithus yaotuensis, Elongatoolithidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Tantou Basin: Vertebrata Palasiatica, published online, 14pp. Link to pdf



Ichnology

Ichnogenus: Nova (4)

Bromacherichnus MARCHETTI, LOGGHE, BUCHWITZ & FROBISCH, 2025

Malakhelisauroperus MALKANI, 2025

Pashtosauroperus MALKANI, 2025

Ruopodosurus ARBOUR, LOCKLEY, DRYSDALE, RULE & HELM, 2025

Ichnospecies: Nova (4)

Bromacherichnus requiescens MARCHETTI, LOGGHE, BUCHWITZ & FROBISCH, 2025

Malakhelisauroperus mianwali MALKANI, 2025

Pashtosauroperus zhobi MALKANI, 2025

Ruopodosurus clava ARBOUR, LOCKLEY, DRYSDALE, RULE & HELM, 2025

Adams, T. L., Price, D., Godet, A., Neuman, J., Davis, C., Lehrmann, A. A., and Lehrmann, D. J., 2025, Revisiting Bird's swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas: Historical Biology, an Internatinoal Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 15pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Major new footprint discoveires on Britain's 'dinosaur highway': Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Large bipedal dinosaur footprints discovered: possible evidence of Mongolian giant Saurolophus: Phys Org, published online, 8 pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Fossils reveal rapid land recovery after end-Permian extinction around 252 million years ago: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Unnoticed for decades, dinosaur footpritns at Australian school reveal ancient secrets: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Footprints reveals prehistoric Scittish lagoons were stompign grounds for giant Jurassic Dinosaurs: Phys Org, Published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs found for the first time: Phys org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Ptero firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptils conquered the ground: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Earliest reptile footprints rewrite the timeline of tetrapod evolution: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, Dinosaur tracks reveal first evidence of mixed-species herding behavior: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Anonymous, 2025, over 16,000 dinosaur footprints identified alogn a Bolivian shoreline: Phys Org, published online, 3pp. Link to pdf

Arbour, V. M., Lockley, M. G., Drysdale, E., Rule, R., and Helm, C. W., 2025, A new thyreophoran ichnotaxon from British Columbia, Canada confirms the presence of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the mid Crretaceous of North America: Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology, e2451319, 14pp. (Ruopodosurus clava) Link to pdf

Arbour, V. M., Lockley, M. G., Drysdale, E., Rule, R., and Helm, C. W., 2025, A new thyreophoran ichnotaxon from British Columbia, Canada confirms the presence of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the mid Crretaceous of North America: Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology, v. 44, n. 5, e2451319, 14pp. (Ruopodosurus clava)

Barry, C., 2025, A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue: Phys Org, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Bell, P. R., Pickels, B. J., Ashby, S. C., Walker, I. E., Hurst, S., Rampe, M., Durkin, P., and Brown, C. M., 2025, A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada: PLOS One, v. 20, n. 7, 26pp.

Bell, P. R., Woodruff, D. C., Nguyen, K., Mainbayar, B., and Currie, P. J., 2025, Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 204, zlaf053, 15pp. Link to pdf

Blakesley, T., de Polo, P., Ross, D. A., Clark, N. D. L., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, Small theropod-dominated dinosaur footprint assemblages in the Middle Jurassic Valtos Sandstone and Kilmalung Formations on the Isle of SKye, Scotland: Royal sSociety Open Sciene, v. 12:251016, 57pp. Link to pdf

 

Blakesley, T., de Polo, P. E., Wade, T. J, Ross, D. A., and Brusatte, S. L., 2025, A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assembalge of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, Plos One, v. 20, n. 4:e0319862, 67pp. Link to pdf

Cardenal, J., and Reolid, M., 2025, Trace fossils of floating reptiles from the Carnina in the Tabular Cover (S. Spain): Estudios Geologicos, v. 81,n . 1, 8pp.

Carvalho, I. S., Cunha, P. P, and Figueiredo, S., 2025, Caracterizacao de pegadas de teropodes on Oxforiano superior do Cabo Mondego, Bacia Lusitancia: Comunicacoes Geologicase, v. 112, Especial, 1, P. 61-65. Link to pdf

de Souza Carvalho, I., Medeiros, M. A., Sarges, R. R., da Silva Mendes, D. C., Michel, R. D. L., Scherer, C. M. S., Pexioto, B. de C.P. e M., Franchischini, H. R d., Ghilardi, R. P., Marques, R. V., dos Reis Maia Filho, J. M., and Levy, H. S., 2025, Jurassic dinosaurs from Brazil: the footprints from Parnaiba Province, Mosquito Formation: Italy Journal of Geoscience, v 144, n. 2, published online, 198-208.

Cooper, J. A., 2025, Recontextualishing a classic 'dinosaur trackway': Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, published on line, 1 pp. Link to pdf

Davidson, J. B., Farlow, J. O., Green, T. L., and Mallon, J. C., 2025, Testing the utility of interdigital angle as a taxonomically informative variable in tridactyl dinosaur ichnology: Italian Journal of Geoscience, Special Section - 200 Years of Dinosaurs: state of the art and future directions, v. 145, n. 1, published online, p. 364-387. Link to pdf

Dececche, T.Dececchi, T. A., Kim, K. S., Lockley, M. G., Larsson, H. C. E., Holtz Jr., T. H., Farlow, J. O., and Pittman, M,. 2025, Reply to Falkingham et al.: Trackway shows flap-running in feathered dinosaurs: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, v. 122, n. 14, 1pp. Link to pdf

Diaz-Martiez, I., Navarro-Lobes, P., Isasmendi, E., Paramo, A., Gasco-Lluna, F., Torices, A., Ruiz, J., Viera, L. I., Sanez-Benito, P., Farlow, J., Leonardi, G., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., and Citton, P., 2025, Footprint morpholgy sheds light on running strategies in non-avian theropods: Scientific reports, v. 15:44217, published online, 13pp. Link to pdf

Diaz-Martinez, I., Urzagasti-Torres, S., Citton, P., Belvedre, M, de Valais, S., 2025, The holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 vertebrate ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): history and patrimonial significance: Geoheritage, v 17:161, 14pp. Link to pdf

Edgar, K. M., Butler, R. J., Larwood, J. G., and Smith, J. J. P., 2025, Determining the relative scientific and cultural "value" of the UK's dinosaur track sites: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, publihsed online, 23pp. Link to pdf

Esperante, R., McLarty, J. A., Nick, K. E., Pompe, L. R., Biaggi, R. E., Medina, H. D. B., Llempen, N. A., Silvestri, A. G. L., Quispe, L. L. M., Cano, A. J. G., Saavedra, W. Q., and Rodriguez, 2025, Morphotypes, preservation, and taphonomy of dinosaur footprints, tail traces, and swim tracks in the largest tracksite in the world: Carreras Pampa (Upper Cretaceous), Torotoro National Park, Bolivia: PLos One, v. 20 n . 12: e0335973, 125pp. Link to pdf

Falkingham, P. L., and Lallensack, J. N., 2025, Qurks of track preservation and formation are more likely than pre-avian flight and ultrafast dinosaurs: Proceendings of the National Academy of Science, v. 122, n. 14, 1pp.  Link to pdf

Farlow, J. O., Galton, P. M., Hyatt, J. A., Drzewiecki, P. A., Penrod, A., and Witcraft, J., 2025, Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic East Berlin Formation, Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, Connecticut: Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, v. 66, n. 1, p. 175-259.

Feineman, D., 2025, The Dinosaurs of Broomfield County: The Broomcorn Expres, 5.1, p. 19-26.

Figueiredo, S. D., 2025, Dinosaur tracks of the Areia do Mastero and Papo-Seco Formations (Lower Cretaceous, Cabo Espichel): paleobiological and paleoenvironmental contrinuities and discontinuities: Fossil Studies, v. 3,n. 19, 10pp. Link to pdf

Figueierdo, S. D., Carvalho, I. S., Cunha, P. P., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., de Carvaljo, Diaz-Martinez, I., and Garcias, T., 2025, Pegaas de teropodes da formacao de Papo Seco (Barremian inferior, Cabo Espichel, Bacia Lusitanica): Comunicaceous Geologicas, v. 112, especial 1, p. 81-85. Link to pdf

Gesualdi, V., Belvedere, M., Yurac, M., Hippler, D., Hurem, N., Salazar, C., Mendez, J., and Meyer, C. A., 2025, Diverse dinosaur tracks from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Chacarilla Formation of Quebrada de Arcas, northeast Chile: evidence of high ichnodiversity in an arid palaeoenvironment: Palaeeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 675, 113088, published online, 20pp. Link to pdf

Gierlinski, G., Jachymek, S., and Szrek, P., 2025, Probable rhabdodontid track from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland and associated tetrapod ichnotaxa: Italian Journal of Geoscience, Special Section - 200 Years of Dinosaurs: state of the art and future directions, v. 145, n. 1, published online, 1-10pp. Link to pdf

Guerrero, C., and Debre, I., 2025, 16,000 fossil footprints in cental Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Guillermo-Ochoa, A. A., Zevalls-Valdivia, L. M., Castro-Eguiluz, C., Garcia-Flores, V., Martinez, J.-N., Silupu-Cardenas, O. A., Sanchez-Alva, C. I., Epiquien-Llaja, J. L., Pintado-Abaraca, T. D. P., Delgado-Quiroz, L. M., and Rodriguez-de la Rosa, R A., 2024, An onrnithopod trackway from the Albian-Turonina Arcurquina Fromation, Arequipa, Peru, and its paleoecological implications: Paleontologia Mexicana, v. 14, n. 1, p. 1-11. Link to pdf

Heredia, A. M., Gianenchini, F. A., Bellardini, F., Maniel, I. J., Garrido, A. C., Windholtz, G. J., Baiano, M A., Ciaffi, A., and Diaz-Martinez, I., 205, Dromaeosaurid tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Candeleros Formation of northwestern Patongia provide additional data on the palaeobiology and palaeoecology of 'Raptor' dinosaurs: Lethaia, published online, 12pp. Link to pdf

Jones, M., Lallensack, J. N., Jarman, I., Falkingham, P., and Siekmann, I., 2025, Classification of dinosaur footrpints using machine learning: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2493157, 12 pp. Link to pdf

Jones, M., Lallensack, J. N., Jarman, I., Falkingham, P., and Siekmann, I., 2025, Classification of dinosaur footrpints using machine learning: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 44, n.6, e2493157, 12 pp.

Kasal, K., 2025, Free climbings discover remnants of ancient sea turtle stampede in Italy: Phys Org, published online, 8pp. Link to pdf

Klein, H., and Lucas, S. G., 2025, Early evolution of dinosaurs: indications from the Triassic footprint record: Italian Journal of Geoscience, Special Section - 200 Years of Dinosaurs: state of the art and future directions, v. 145, n. 1, published online, p. 436-459. Link to pdf

Lacerda, M. B S., Fernandes, M A., and Leonardi, G., 2025, First pterosaur tracks from Brazil: Anais da Academia Brasilieria de Sciencias, v. 97, supplement 1, 26pp. Link to pdf

Lallensack, J. N., Leonardi, G., and Falkingham, P. L., 2025, Glossry of fossil tetrapod tracks: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 28, n. 1, 105pp. Link to pdf

Li, Y., Zhang, L.Li, Y., Zhang, L., Jiang, S., Wu, Q., Qi, M., and Wang, X., 2025, The fastest-running theropod trackway in the Cretaceous from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China: Science Chinga Earth Sciences, v. 68, n. 11, p. 3495-3505. Link to pdf

Long, J. A., Niedzwiedzki, G., Garvey, J, Clement, A. M., Camens, A. B., Dury, C. A., Eason, J,. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2025, Earliest amnoite tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution: Nature, published online, 9pp. www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08884-5">Link to pdf

Lucas, S. G., Stimson, M. R., and May, P. T., 2025, The tetrapod footprint ichnogenus Matthwichnus from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, Socorro County, New Mexico: In: Fossil Record 10, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 100, p. 139-144p. Link to pdf

Malkani, M. S., 2025, Theropods, Ornithischians and Pterosaurs from South Asia-review with new taxa: a look at paleontology, stratigraphy and mineral potential of Pakistan: Open Journal of Geology, v. 15, n. 1, p. 22-68. (Malakhelisauroperus mianwali, Pashtosauroperus zhobi)

Marchetti, L., Logghe, A., Buchwitz, M.. and Fröbisch, J., 2025, Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior: Current Biology, v. 35, 8pp. (Bromacherichnus requiescens) Link to pdf 

McDavid, S. N., and Thomas, H. N., 2025, The putative pterosaur tracks at Gunston Hall (Potomac Group, Cretaceous of Virginia) are examples of erosion: The Mosasaur, v. 14, p. 13-21. Link to pdf

McLarty, J. A., McKenzie, Z., Hayes, W. L., Clawson, R., Baltazar, H. D., Alvs, E. F., Nick, K. E., and Dsperante, R., 2025, Let that sink in: track depth as driving actor in the formation of dionsaur tail traces: Historical Biology, an International Journal of Paleobiology, Published online, 11pp. Link to pdf

Meyer, C. A., and Sciscio, L., 2025, Dinosaurierfunde aus dem spaten Jura der Nordwestschwiez (Oxfordium-Tithonium): Regio Basiliensis, v. 66, n. 1, p. 43-54. Link to pdf

Niedzwiedzki, G., Owocki, K., Qvarnström, M., and Gierlinski, G. D., 2025, An ornithischian-theropod ichnoassemblage from the Norian-Rhaetian transition of Poland: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v .679, 113312, 31pp. Link to pdf

Noffke, N,. Murphey, P. C., Buntin, R. C., and Lockley, M. G., 2025, Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses: Sedimentology, published online, 22pp. Link to pdf

Pascual-Arribas, C,. Jung, J,. Masrour, m,. Hernandez-Medrano, N., and Perez-Lorente, F., 2025, Huellas de pterosaurios en el Cretacico Inferior del grupo Enciso de La Cuenca de Cameros (Espana): Revista de la Socidedad Geologica de Sana, v. 38, n. 1, p. 3-24. Link to pdf

Pinuela, L,. Garcia-Ramos, J. C., Leonardi, K. M., G., and Finsterbusch-Lagos, O. E., 2025, Exceptional and striking 3D track-detaches undertrack specimens from the Upper Jurassic of Asturias (N Spain): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 131, n. 1, p. 11-24. Link to pdf

Plint, G., and Helm, C., 2025, Dinosaur tracks, made 240 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa's Western Cape: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Prescott, T. L., Griffin, B. W., Demuth, O. E., Gatesy, S. M., Lallensack, J. N., and Falkingham, P. L., 2025, Speed from fossil trackway: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates: Biology Letters, v. 21: 20250191, 9pp. Link to pdf

Reolid, M., and Cardenal, J., 2025, Description and interpretation of theropod tracks from the Berriasian tidal flts of south-Iberian palaeomargin (Internal prebetic, S. Spain): Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloninae, v. 95, p. 179-188. Link to pdf

Reynolds, S. C., 2025, More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia: Phys Org, published online, 4pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., 2025, Evaluating heteropody in tracks: novel methodologies for manus-pes ratio calculation: Historical Biology, An international Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 7pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., 2026 (published 2025), Digital analysis of the longest dinosaur trackway (CA6) from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) Rotzo Formation, Coste dell'Anglone, Trention-Alto Adige, Northern Italy: Italian Journal of Geoscience, Special Section, 200 years of Dinosaurs: state of the art and future directions, v. 145n. 2, 11pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., Godfrey, T., Cleeland, M., Duncan, R. J., Grippi, S., Martin, A., Tracksdorf and Wagstaff, T., 2025, Re-investigation of the mid-Cretaceous 'Skenes Creek' dinosaur tracksite and discovery of distinct tracks at Browns Creek within the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia: Historical Biology, an international journal of Paleobiology, published online, 18pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., Murphey, P. C., Matthews, N. A., Schumacher, B. A., Murphey, L. D., Toscanin, M., Boyce, P., and Fitzner, Z., 2025, Track by track: revealing suaropod turning and lateralised gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstoen, Colorado): Geomatics, v. 5, 67, 19pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., Park, R., Nichols, W., and Jackson, O., 2025, Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) precipice Sandstone of the Callide Basin, Queensland, Australia: Historical Biology, An International Journal of Paleobiology, published online, 12 pp. Link to pdf

Romilio, A., and Xing, L., 2025, A digital analysis of the 'Phoenix Trackway' at the Hanxi Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite, China: Geosciences, v. 15, v. 165, 18pp. Link to pdf

Smyth, R. S H., Breithaupt, B. H, Butler, R. J., Falkingham, P. L., and Unwin, D. M., 2025, Identifying pterosaur trackmakers provides critical insights into mid-Mesozoic ground invasion: Current Biology, published on line, 17pp. Link to pdf

Tran, T., Milner, A. R. C., Stweet, J. S., DeBliux, D. D., Hunt-Foster, R., Shaffer, A. B., Kirkland, J. I., Warner-Cowgill, E., and Stantucci, V. L., 2025, A visual paleontological inventory of Utah's National Park service areas: Geology of the Intermountain West, an open-access journal of the Utah Geological Association, v. 12, p. 221-292, A1--62. Link to pdf

Xing, L., Mo, J., Yin, H., He, G., Liang, Z,. Chen, Q, Buffetaut, E., and Tong, H., 2025, Theropod tracks from the Upper Jurassic Dongxing formation Dongxing city adn an overview of dinosaur assemblages from Guangxi, China: Earth History and Biodiversity, v. 5 (100031), 12pp. Link to pdf

Xing, L., Niu, K,. Chen, Q., Klein, H, Romilio, A,. Chen, R., Lin, M., Deng, K., and Tang, J., 2025, Dinosaur track assemblage from mid-Cretaceous of Fujian Province, southeatern China: ichnotaxonomic review and faunal comparison: PeerJ 13"e19597 DOI 10.7717/peerj.19597, 84p. Link to pdf

Yang, Q., Xing, X., Du, F., Chen, Q., Klein, H., Romilio, A., Jin, Y., Liu, L., Qi, J., Zhao, M., Xhen, X., Zhao, Y., Wei, L., and Wan, Y., 2025, A new sauropod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous in central Ningxia, northwestern China, and the implications on palaeoenviroments: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:35, 17pp. Link to pdf

Yuan, R., and Kennedy, D. M., 2025, The exposure and preservation of dinosaur footprints on intertidal shore platiforms: Journal of Coastal Consevation, v. 29: 47, 16pp. Link to pdf

Yurac, M., Belvedere, M., Salazar, C., Mendez, J., and Meyer, C., 2025, Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huataconodon area (Tarapaca Basin, Chinle): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 144:72, 25pp. Link to pdf

Yirka, B., 2025, A new look at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge reveals what may be the largest known dinosaur mating dance area: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf


Palaeopathologies


Gastroliths


Stomach contents


Coprolites

Coprogenus: Nova (1)

Kommacopros DUFFIN & WARD, 2025

Coprospecies: Nova (1)

Kommacopros geschi DUFFIN & WARD, 2025

Duffin, C. J., and Ward, D. J,. 2025, Coprolite diversity in the Latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) phosphates of Sidi Chennane, Morocco: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 100, p. 39-48. (Kommacopros geschi) Link to pdf

Khosla, A., Chiun, K., Vermna, O., Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P., Xi, D., Dutta, D., and Alimohammadian, H., 2025, Paleoenvironmental and palaeoecological inferences from inclusions in vertebrate omnivore coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of central India: Cretaceous Research, v. 172, 106110, 19pp. Link to pdf


Cannibalismn


Regurgitalite


Fire (Mesozoic, Paleozoic)

Anonymous, 2025, Early Triassic sedimetns reveal Earth's hidden wildfire past: Phys Org, published online, 5pp. Link to pdf

Blattmann, F. R., Ragon, C., Vennemann, T. W., Schneebeli-Hermann, E., Verard, C., Kasparian, J, Brunetti, M, Bucvher, H. F. R., Aatte, T., and Magill, C. R., 2025, Wildfire, ecosystemss and climate interactions in the Early Triassic: Communicatiosn Earth & Envrionrment, v. 6:830, 8pp. Link to pdf 

Zhang, Q., Feng, S., Yang, B., Li, X., Wang, W., Tian, J., and Wang, X., 2025, Evidence of Aalenian-stage palaeofires in an extremely thick coal seam of the eastern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China: Frontiers in EArth Science, v .13:1579389, 18pp. Link to pdf


Beetle Borrings


Toothmarks

 


Histology


Soft tissue


Bonebed


Taphonomy


Burrows

Nascimento, D. L., Mescolotti, PC., Ladeira, F. S. B., and Assine, M. L., 2025, Cretaceous tetrapod burrow form Aptina eolian deposits of Southeast Brazil: Ichnos, published online, 10 pp.

Sadlock, G., 2025, Tetrapod origins of small burrows from the Permina of Southwest Poland? Lethaia, published on line, 15pp. Link to pdf


DNA (and Blood)


(suppose) Tertiary Dinosaurs


Venomous


Extinction


Integuments

Feathers

 

Skin

Hair


Interesting Articles

 


If you would like your paper added to this page, please email me at dino.hunter@cox.net

 

Copyright © 2001 "> s="style18">BASE Graphicsle28"> All Rights Reserved World Wide"> Last modified: .