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Theropoda

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

Raúl Esperante, Jeremy A. McLarty, Kevin E. Nick, Lance R. Pompe, Roberto E. Biaggi, Helen D. Baltazar Medina, Nelson A. Llempen, Ángela B. Limachi Silvestri, Lourdes Lidia Mamani Quispe, Antonio Joaquín Garre Cano, Wilson Quiroga Saavedra, Germán Rocha Rodríguez

published 03 Dec 2025

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A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Phil R. Bell, Brian J. Pickles, Sarah C. Ashby, Issy E. Walker, Sally Hurst, Michael Rampe, Paul Durkin, Caleb M. Brown

published 23 Jul 2025

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First unambiguous record of pneumaticity in the axial skeleton of alvarezsaurians (Theropoda: Coelurosauria)

G.J. Windholz, J.G. Meso, M.J. Wedel, M. Pittman

published 02 Apr 2025

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A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland

Tone Blakesley, Paige E. dePolo, Thomas J. Wade, Dugald A. Ross, Stephen L. Brusatte

published 02 Apr 2025

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New information on Bonapartenykus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropoda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan

Jorge Gustavo Meso, Jonah Nathaniel Choiniere, Mattia Antonio Baiano, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Juan Ignacio Canale, Leonardo Salgado, Diego Pol, Michael Pittman

published 30 Jan 2025

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Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny

Maximilian Kellermann, Elena Cuesta, Oliver W. M. Rauhut

published 14 Jan 2025

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New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus

Alexander D. Clark, Jessie Atterholt, John B. Scannella, Nathan Carroll, Jingmai K. O’Connor

published 09 Oct 2024

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Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time

C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer, Frank A. Corsetti, Nathan D. Smith

published 14 Feb 2024

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A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

Kyle L. Atkins-Weltman, D. Jade Simon, Holly N. Woodward, Gregory F. Funston, Eric Snively

published 24 Jan 2024

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The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa

Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy

published 29 Nov 2023

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Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks: Wonthaggi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia

Anthony J. Martin, Melissa Lowery, Michael Hall, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, Claudia I. Serrano-Brañas, Peter Swinkels

published 15 Nov 2023

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Big boned: How fat storage and other adaptations influenced large theropod foraging ecology

Cameron C. Pahl, Luis A. Ruedas

published 01 Nov 2023

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Putative avian teeth from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, are more likely from crocodilians

Sydney R. Mohr, John H. Acorn, Philip J Currie

published 28 Mar 2023

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