Tag Archive for 'Massopoda'

Reconstructed skeleton and representative bones of Wudingloong wui. Individual scale bars - 5 cm. Scale bar of the reconstructed skeleton - 50 cm. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2.

East Asia’s Oldest Known Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unearthed in China

Aug 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Wudingloong wui lived in what is now Yunnan, China, around 200 million years ago (Early Jurassic epoch). Reconstructed skeleton and representative bones...

Articulated skull of the new massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in right lateral view. Scale bars - 5 cm. Image credit: Lania et al., doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6.

Fossil of Triassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Discovered in Switzerland

Jul 21, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in the Klettgau...

The fossilized skeleton of Xingxiulong yueorum. Image credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Sauropodomorph Dinosaur

Feb 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch. The...

Photograph (A) and interpretative line drawing (B) of the cranium of Lishulong wangi in right lateral view. Image credit: Wei Gao.

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Sauropodomorph Dinosaur in China

Dec 30, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered dinosaur species, Lishulong wangi, lies in the heart of the early sauropodomorph-sauropod transition, according to a paper published...

An artist’s impression of Musankwa sanyatiensis, walking in Triassic shallow waters past a metoposaur. Image credit: Atashni Moopen / Sci.News.

New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unearthed in Zimbabwe

May 30, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur has been identified form the fossilized remains found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. An...

Massospondylus carinatus. Image credit: Nobu Tamura, http://spinops.blogspot.com / Patty Jansen / Sci.News.

South African Fossil Reveals Smallest Jurassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaur

Jun 29, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

This dinosaur weighed around 75 kg, making it one of the smallest known sauropodomorph species, and the smallest ever reported from the Jurassic period. Massospondylus...

$A reconstruction of Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum. The cortical bone on the left side of the fossil is fractured into flakes, which can be explained if the carcass was exposed over a long time on the mud, two to four years, before being buried -- in the reconstruction, the animal will fall to its right body side. The reconstruction shows the animal sinking in a mud trap, attacked by a rauisuchian, Teratosaurus, which has also been found in the Trossingen Formation in Baden-Württemberg. In the background, a herd of Plateosaurus trossingensis runs away from the scene. The flora in the swamp is reconstructed based on fossils from the Germanic basin, with shoots of horsetails and ferns covering the swamp and a forest comprising cycads, lycophytes and coniferous plants. Image credit: O.R.R. Fernández & I. Werneburg, doi: 10.3897/vz.72.e86348.$

New Long-Necked Dinosaur Species Discovered after Century in University’s Collection

Sep 8, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of sauropodomorph dinosaur has been discovered, after being misidentified as Plateosaurus trossingensis and kept in the Palaeontological...