A paper published in Nature reports the discovery of an early sauropodomorph in the Andes of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. The finding expands the known diversity and geographic range of early dinosaurs and offers new insights into sauropodomorph evolution. go.nature.com/4984sqA #Paleosky 🧪
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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#FossilFriday Huayracursor jaguensis, an early sauropodomorph from Argentina. 🧪⚒️🦖
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Meet Huayracursor jaguensis, an early sauropodomorph from Argentina 🧪⚒️🦕
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Meet Huayracursor jaguensis, an early sauropodomorph from Argentina.
Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic, but the earliest unambiguous dinosaur specimens are from the middle-late Carnian age, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, with potential eviden…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A short-necked sauropodomorph from a new Triassic locality in Argentina shows sign of the neck extension that characterised its larger, later cousins.🧪👇
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A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes - Nature
Discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Huayracursor jaguensis, a Carnian dinosaur from the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern Argentina provides evidence of increased body size and early...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Peter Snowball's dinosaur artwork is an often overlooked but important part of the history of 20th century dinosaur art. He wasn't breaking boundaries in terms of progressive imagery, but there's a solidness and simplicity to his dinosaurs that make them convincing. They're delightfully nostalgic!
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A paper published in Nature reports the discovery of an early sauropodomorph in the Andes of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. The finding expands the known diversity and geographic range of early dinosaurs and offers new insights into sauropodomorph evolution. go.nature.com/4984sqA 🧪
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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A new example of a dinosaur known as a sauropodomorph, found in the Andes mountains of Argentina, sheds light on the evolution of early dinosaurs. The dinosaur, dating to around 231 million years ago, shows signs of extensions in the neck bones:
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A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes - Nature
Discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Huayracursor jaguensis, a Carnian dinosaur from the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern Argentina provides evidence of increased body size and early cervical elongation during the Late Triassic epoch.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Do you want a really cool dinosaur fact?
Pantydraco. Possibly my favorite dinosaur name of all time.
It’s a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic and lived in the United Kingdom, specifically Wales.
It’s named after the Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry it was found in.
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Pantydraco. Possibly my favorite dinosaur name of all time.
It’s a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic and lived in the United Kingdom, specifically Wales.
It’s named after the Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry it was found in.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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It’s known from a single partial juvenile specimen that was first believed to be Thecodontosaurus, another basal sauropodomorph.
Pantydraco was likely to be mostly bipedal and omnivorous.
As it was a transitional form meat eating dinosaurs to plant eating dinosaurs.
Very cool dudes.
Pantydraco was likely to be mostly bipedal and omnivorous.
As it was a transitional form meat eating dinosaurs to plant eating dinosaurs.
Very cool dudes.
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Kirk’s Massospondylus was, and still is, one of my favourites in the book. It has a visceral sense of realism that I can’t really explain! My child self was enamoured with it, and I envisioned all “prosauropods” with this same gracile kangarooish look even after I knew better. (8/17)
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages - Beeston - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages
PSP in early-branching sauropodomorphs probably evolved first in the neural arches of the posterior cervical vertebrae, expanding anteriorly and posteriorly along the vertebral column. The distributi....
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September 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Rodrigo Temp Müller.
Macrocollum itaquii was the first complete dinosaur discovered in Brazil. Measuring about 3.5 meters in length and dating back 225 million years, it is the oldest long-necked sauropodomorph known worldwide 🦕
Macrocollum itaquii was the first complete dinosaur discovered in Brazil. Measuring about 3.5 meters in length and dating back 225 million years, it is the oldest long-necked sauropodomorph known worldwide 🦕
September 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#Aardonyx is a South African sauropodomorph from the Early #Jurassic. Yates et al (2009) describe this dinosaur as being remarkably robust and recover it one of the closest relatives of the true "long-necks" that was capable of walking on just its hind legs. #FossilFriday #paleontology
September 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Look at you being a good little nerd and waiting for tonight’s dino fact.
Saturnalia, it was a small bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic.
Now looking at this little guy you’re probably wondering if it was an early theropod.
It wasn’t. It was actually a basal sauropodomorph.
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Saturnalia, it was a small bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic.
Now looking at this little guy you’re probably wondering if it was an early theropod.
It wasn’t. It was actually a basal sauropodomorph.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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If you haven't already checked it out, you must read, "A brief history of Massospondylus" by Paul Barrett & Kimi Chapelle! A wonderful history and review of dare I say, perhaps the best Early Jurassic sauropodomorph 🏆🦕
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A brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series
Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 is one of the first dinosaurs to have been described from outside Europe and was based on material collected from what is now the upper Elliot Formation of the Free...
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December 7, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Reading South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Alejandro Otero, José L. Carballido, Diego Pol.
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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（Post:251019ｰ1）Fossils of a new species of sauropodomorph, Huayracursor jaguensis, a member of the brontosaur family, have been discovered in the Santo Domingo Formation of the Andes Mountains in La Rioja province in northwestern Argentina.
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New species of long-necked dinosaur discovered in mountains of Argentina
Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of sauropodomorph was found in Argentina.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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What if when theyre hungry i say pretty bird and shake a big bag of sauropodomorph bones
October 21, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Full article: A description of new sauropodomorph cranial material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, P. R. China www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A description of new sauropodomorph cranial material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, P. R. China
Early-diverging non-sauropodan sauropodomorphs are important groups of saurischian dinosaurs, a group that also includes theropods and the clade Sauropoda. Because of these close relations, a good ...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Sarita's Archovember 2024
Day 15 - Saturnalia tupiniquim
#saturnalia #saturnaliatupiniquim #sauropodomorpha #sauropodomorph #lizard #reptile #dinosaur #Archovember #Archovember2024 #dinovember #dinovember2024 #paleoart
Day 15 - Saturnalia tupiniquim
#saturnalia #saturnaliatupiniquim #sauropodomorpha #sauropodomorph #lizard #reptile #dinosaur #Archovember #Archovember2024 #dinovember #dinovember2024 #paleoart
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Hi! I've just presented at the International Symposium on Palaeohistology on sauropodomorph growth strategies across the end-Triassic mass extinction. Our first observation is that all sauropodomorphs and sauropodiformes exhibit growth marks from early ontogeny, contrary to Sauropoda. #sauropods
June 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia ⚒️🧪
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A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia
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July 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Late sketches for #flicking #Paleostream
The animals are Paleocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura
The animals are Paleocampa, Nektognathus, Wudingloong, and Mirasaura
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Meet Seitaad this Fossil Friday! Named after the Boiling Dunes from the Diné Creation Story, Seitaad was a sauropodomorph that lived in the ancient, vast desert that makes up the Navajo Sandstone Formation today. It may have also lived alongside Dilophosaurus. (1/2)
March 15, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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