Friday, February 28, 2025

Your Friends The Titanosaurs: Petrustitan hungaricus and Uriash kadici (and every other Transylvanian titanosaur)

It's been a while since I got to do one of these...

To say that Díez Díaz et al. (2025) names Petrustitan hungaricus and Uriash kadici is to miss the point. Between the paper itself and the supplementary material, you get a novel's worth of information on the titanosaurs of Romania, including descriptions of a couple dozen significant finds (including individuals and assemblages of multiple individuals). But yes, the report does name one new genus and species, and transfers another species to a second new genus.

Monday, February 17, 2025

Happy Valentine Formation Day!

With Valentine's Day having come on Friday, I thought it would be fun to show some love to the Valentine Formation. This geologic unit, from the Middle Miocene of Nebraska, is a great fossil producer but not especially famous, so let's give it a moment in the spotlight.