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Ornithischian dinosaurs of the world...and other stuff

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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 18h
Reavaliação do “troodontídeo” norte-americano do Cretáceo Inicial Geminiraptor suarezarum como um terizinossauro e evolução em mosaico da maxila dos celurossauros journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous North American “troodontid” Geminiraptor suarezarum as a therizinosaurian and mosaic evolution of coelurosaurian maxillae
The only recorded member of the bird-like Troodontidae from Early Cretaceous North America is Geminiraptor suarezarum, known from an isolated maxilla recovered from the Suarez Site bonebed of the basa...
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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 21h
Prováveis Fósseis de Paravianos do Barremiano da Bacia Lusitana: Implicações para a Diversidade Europeia de Terópodes do Cretáceo Inicial www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/...
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 19h
New Cretaceous bird reported from Australia, Tenuicruris piscanexum! I was hoping my coauthors' & my 2023 study reporting a variety of Early Cretaceous bird tracks in Australia would be followed by bird body-fossil discoveries reflecting that diversity. 🧪🪨🐦🇦🇺 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tenuicruris piscanexum, a new addition to Australia’s rare Cretaceous bird fossils
This study describes Tenuicruris piscanexum, gen. et sp. nov., the second Cretaceous bird named from Australia, based on a well-preserved tibiotarsus. Detailed morphological analysis and phylogenet...
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Xavier A. Jenkins @semifossorial.bsky.social · 23h
Out today: We show that Westlothiana lizziae or "Lizzie," described 35 years ago as the world's oldest reptile - is not a stem amniote at all, but a stem tetrapod. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The part and counterpart of the holotype specimen of Westlothiana. Paleoartistic reconstruct of Westlothiana by Jacob Schick based on our new data
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Rodríguez-Borges, Airam, et al. "Ontogenetic variation in an ornithopod femur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina: Ornithopod femur ontogeny." Geologica Acta 24 (2026): 1-XXVIII. t.co/zw4j0PT1RX
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For #fossilfriday the weird extra osteoderms in the second cervical ring of _Edmontonia_ AMNH 5665. These extra osteoderms nearly close the ring ventrally and are unique to this specimen among ankylosaurs. The specimen can be viewed in 3d here t.co/ORvOrpCTIE
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A daily reminder that significant specimens are constantly being illegally trafficked. Right now, on eBay and various auction sites, one can find Chinese paravians and psittacosaurs, Burmese paravians, teeth and bones from Niger, and-in this instance-part of a Spicomellus
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Zhengheornis buyu gen. et sp. nov. Wang et al. (2026) Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds Science Advances 12(27): eaeb5202 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ae b5202 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy #FossilFriday! It's Hell Creek time Maybe I'll find more of this mystery critter when I'm out in the wilds.
Brown and orange unknown lumpy bone as found on the outcrop.
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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong
Three species that lived about 308 million years ago challenge the idea that the first land vertebrates underwent amphibian-like metamorphosis.
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The paper describing Changzhousaurus (previously missing various pictures ) has been replaced by an updated version www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/...
Life restoration of the small maniraptoran Changzhousaurus, displaying its elongated tail feathers. Image by Dinosaur Park group
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Woah. Calamosaurus from the Wessex Formation reidentified as an alvarezsauroid... I'm reeling and certainly didn't see that one coming :) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dinosaurs
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Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade - Nature
A skeleton of the alvarezsauroid Alnashetri cerropoliciensis—representing a highly complete alvarezsauroid skeleton from South America—provides evidence on the evolution of the peculiar anatomy and mi...
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For #FossilFriday a panoply of the basal #ankylosaurid Liaoningosaurus, known by literally dozens of juvenile specimens. The largest specimens are around 50 cm #thyreophora #ornithischia
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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!! I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China! The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Really taken with Haolong dongi, out today from Jiandong Huang, Pascal Godefroit and team. Just submitted news article on it. An iguanodontian with abundant hollow spikes across the neck and body, projecting from among conventional basement scales, and with rows of plate-like scales along the tail.
Life reconstruction of Haolong in dark forest environment, by Fabio Manucci.Montage showing scales and spikes of Haolong, with anatomical position marked on life reconstruction of whole animal. From Huang et al. 'Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous'.
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Since it's #haolong day and #fossilfriday here's some #iguanodontian specimens from Liaoning, spanning from 40 cm to over 8 m, many preserved with soft tissue.
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Manipulonyx, new WEIRD alvarezsaurid A.O. Averianov, A.V. Lopatin and A.A. Atuchin (2025) Forelimb structure and function in a new Late Cretaceous parvicursorine theropod dinosaur from Mongolia Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 329(4): 382–408 www.zin.ru/journals/tru... …
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Wang, L., Li, X., Wen, Q. et al. Gastroliths in hatchling Psittacosaurus show early dietary habits. Sci. China Earth Sci. (2025). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Latest paper in the Lance Grande volume is out! Several more are at proof stage so should be appearing soon.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: ‘Cearadactylus atrox’ as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae): Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: ‘Cearadactylus atrox’ as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae)
The Romualdo Formation (Aptian–Albian) of the Araripe Basin is renowned for its exceptional three-dimensional fossil preservation, including a rich pterosaur assemblage. One of such pterosaurs from...
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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A região occipital do Amargasaurus (Sauropoda, Dicraeosauridae): reconstrução das inserções musculares craniocervicais, com comentários sobre estratégia alimentar onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The occiput of Amargasaurus (Sauropoda, Dicraeosauridae): Reconstruction of the craniocervical muscular insertions with comments on feeding strategy
Sauropods achieved gigantism partly through neck elongation, but the role of soft tissues remains unclear. We reconstruct the craniocervical muscles of Amargasaurus cazaui (Lower Cretaceous, Argentin...
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Tut Tran @tuttran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New paper alert! (My first!) This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible! giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Skull roof elements of Tuojiangosaurus. The supraorbital (n.6)show and interesting pattern of conspicuous tubercles. While stegosaurs have often ornamentations in the shape of grooves and pits the supraorbital of T. vaguely recall the caputegulae of ankylosaurs #thyreophora
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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A little #FossilFriday mystery from the Hell Creek for you other experts. I found this in a bunch of pieces trailing down the outcrop. What is it? Smooth on the underside, horns. Sutures? Definitely not Pachycephalosaurus, can't place it on a ceratopsian either. 🦕🧪
Side view of the mystery boneTop view of the mystery boneFront? View of mystery bone
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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm putting the new weird horned dinosaur that I found in Montana away, but wanted to compare it with the same bones from Princess Lumpybumps. I am surprised at how different they are, especially the fused frill lumps (episquamodals) in overall size and proportions. Can't wait to dig more ! 🧪
The tips of the left squamosal bones from 2 horned dinosaurs on a red cloth, curatorial thumbs up for scale
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Results from the #paleostream! Dodo, Oneirosaurus, Thikarisuchus and Bakiribu
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Rex, all hail the king #sciart
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Does anyone have this ref? Nopcsa F (1925) Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen IV. Die Wirbelsäule von Rhabdodon und Orthomerus. Palaeontologica Hungarica 1: 273–304 Thanks!
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 12/11/2025
Whooooaaaa, this is extremely neat! And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙 In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material. 🔭🧪
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Forelimb morphology of the early short-tailed avialan theropod Confuciusornis: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 🪶🧪 (📷Duan et al.)
Fossilized forelimb bones of a bird-like dinosaur.
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 11/11/2025
Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP
Sarcosaurus femora and tibiae in a foam cradle Assorted small pieces of Sarcosaurus Better view of the femur
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A new, exquisitely preserved skull of a basal neornithischian from the Morrison Fm www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
M. W. Maisch, L. S. M. Maisch 2024 Neubewertung von „Plateosaurus“ ornatus von Huene, 1908 – ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 180. Jahrgang
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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Oh, my God" "What is it?" "It's a birdcage" "For what?" My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)
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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Restos de anquilossauros de uma nova localidade do Campaniano-Maastrichtiano no norte da Patagônia, Argentina doi.org/10.1080/0311...
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Ankylosaurian remains from a new Campanian–Maastrichtian locality in Northern Patagonia, Argentina
In South America, the fossil record of thyreophorans is scarce compared with that of Laurasian landmasses. The earliest finds date back to the first half of the twentieth century and consist of an ...
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Leaving this here for no particular reason... #spinosaurus #theropoda
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Mette the Liminal Entity @mettiina.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I made another discovery today: a new (old) instance of the Demonic Elongated Quetzalcoatlus! And It's attacking London! Apparently it is from Look and Learn, a British educational magazine for children published in 1982.
A surreal demon Quetzalcoatlus looms above a scene of Brits fighting off some very nightmarish wrinkly green theropods while a red carnosaur of some description harasses a double-decker bus.
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
neck details
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
more progress....almost done with the head details
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Joshua Lively, PhD @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thinking about ankylosaur cervical spines (neck armor) today in the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social collections. How many morphs are there? What bones are homologous? Can I just have ONE articulated animal?!?
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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The ginkgo-mimicking hangingfly Juracimbrophlebia, from Jurassic China. Places like the Haifanggou Formation are known for an insane quantity of full-body insect fossils, some of which even preserve color patterning #paleoart #sciart #entomology
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social ! uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon... 🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
A book cover, featuring the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time.  Edited by Chris Manias."  The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background.  A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her.  There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane YouTube · McWane Science Center youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia
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Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane
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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Denmark's #Evolutionsmuseet Knuthenborg, home to the famous #Lokiceratops fossils and the 97%-Complete Camarasaurus, appears to be readying itself for yet another key specimen... The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...
Evolutionsmuseet Knuthenborg on facebook: 
What Makes the World’s Best Dinosaur Museum? 
It’s not just about the fossils—it’s about what’s coming next!
Big Joe, our world-class Allosaurus skeleton, has been a showstopper, offering incredible insights into the life of a 9-meter-long predator from the Late Jurassic. Now, as the museum prepares for something big, we’re making room for a thrilling new arrival! 🦖✨
Here’s a look at Big Joe in all his glory before the big move. Isn’t he magnificent? 
Stay tuned next week as we document this once-in-a-lifetime transition—you won’t want to miss what’s coming next!
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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Common Bronzewing (male) preening on my balcony. #birds
Photograph of a medium-sized pigeon standing on a metal post. It is a a mostly brown bird, patterned with white, orange, grey-blue, and purple. Many of its wing feathers are iridescent, having the appearance of bronze in diffuse light.Photograph of the same pigeon preening, framing its wing and head. Its neck is bent over so its head is upside down as it runs its beak along a wing feather. Its metallic wing feathers are raised slightly for easier access.Similar to the last photo, but zoomed out slightly and with the metallic feathers in focus, showing a range of colours including orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple.Photograph cropped to emphasise the beauty and complexity of some of the the Bronzewing's metallic feathers, with enough detail to make out some of the individual hair-like filaments that make up the metallic effect.
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Manusuchus @manusuchus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
- Sebecus icaeorhinus - For a prototype, I am quite happy with the result. #Crocodylomorpha
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Brontops @brontops.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Great Yingshanosaurus skeletal by @slvrhwk.bsky.social www.deviantart.com/slvrhwk/art/... and a translation of the original paper t.co/YZCaUZoG9E
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Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis Skeletal by SlvrHwk on DeviantArt
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#FossilFriday A few more views of the holotype brain case of the giant Albian nodosaurid Peleroplites. CEUM 26331
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Han solo, Tameryraptor, Rhizodus and Dinornis
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