Dinosaurs Lately - Stegosaurs (Spring 2026)

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Episode 10 - Stegosaurs (Spring 2026). 

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Stegosaur news: 

• Zafaty, O., M. Oukassou, F. Riguetti, J. Company, S. Bendrioua, R. Tabuce, A. Charrière, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2024. A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa. Gondwana Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.009

• Omar Ait Haddou, Abdelkbir Hminna, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Hendrik Klein, Mohamed Arouch, Mohamed Fergougui, Aziz Rmich & Wahiba Bel Haouz (2026). “New dinosaur tracksites from the Middle-?Late Jurassic of Msemrir (Central High Atlas, Morocco).” Historical Biology (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117

• Evan T. Saitta, Vincent Bonhomme, Mitchell Lukens, Daniel Vidal, Nicholas R. Longrich, Dean R. Richmond, Maximilian T. Stockdale. The function and Evolution of Stegosaur Osteoderms and Hypothesized Sexual Dimorphism in Hesperosaurus. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273  

• Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa & Alberto Cobos (2025). “New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria).” Vertebrate Zoology 75: 165-189. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e146618 https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/146618/

• Francisco Costa Pinto, Susannah Maidment, Cristina Sequero & Vicente D. Crespo (2025). “Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence from the most complete stegosaur from Europe.” Comunicações Geológicas 112(I): 35-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.34637/xs1n-3d27 https://repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/publication/97e1df73-0734-45d7-b75d-bf4cf012f252

• Kenneth Carpenter (2026). “The smallest known Stegosaurus.” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 283-285 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400035283_2026_Carpenter_Smallest_Stegosaurus

• Rebecca K. Hunt-Foster, D. Cary Woodruff, Steven D. Sroka, and John R. Foster (2026). “The largest reported stegosaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic).” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 287-292. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400050523_THE_LARGEST_REPORTED_STEGOSAURID_FROM_THE_MORRISON_FORMATION_UPPER_JURASSIC

• Costa, Francisco (2026). “Dacentrurine Stegosaurs in North America: New Occurrences from the Upper Jurassic of USA (Morrison Formation).” Diversity 18(3): 143 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18030143 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/3/143

• Sánchez-Fenollosa, Sergio, Escaso, Fernando & Cobos, Alberto (2024). “A new specimen of Dacentrurus armatus Owen, 1875 (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Spain and its taxonomic relevance in the European stegosaurian diversity.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae074. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074/7696911

• Facundo Javier Riguetti, Sebastián Apesteguía, Juan Ignacio Canale & Pablo Ariel Gallina (2026). “New thyreophoran remains with stegosaurian affinities from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina.” / “Nuevos restos fósiles con afinidades estegosaurianas del Cretácico Inferior de Argentina.” Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 56-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.25.11.2025.551 https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/551

• Jia, L., Li, N., Dong, L., Shi, J., Kang, Z., Wang, S., … You, H. (2024). A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308214  

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