Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai by Verónica Díez Díaz, Pasha A. van Bijlert, William Irvin Sellers, Mathew J. Wedel, Daniela Schwarz

“…In this work, we present detailed analyses of the ranges of motion of the amphicoelous anterior caudal series MB.R.2921 from the Late Jurassic sauropod Giraffatitan brancai from Tanzania. We discuss possible positions of the centres of rotation, potential osteological constraints and how they affect the mobility of the caudal series. …”
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A new sauropod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous in central Ningxia, northwestern China, and the implications on palaeoenvironments by Qing Yang, Lida Xing, Fangpeng Du, Qiyan Chen, Hendrik Klein, Anthony Romilio, Yufei Jin, Lin Liu, Juan Qi, Ming Zhao, Xi Chen, Ya Zhao, Lixin Wei, Yang Wan

“…The dinosaur tracks discovered at the Yaoshan site include those from small sauropods (majority of pes length < 25 cm) and small ?…”
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A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in China and its implication on sauropod gigantism by Xuefang Wei, Yuanjun Tan, Shan Jiang, Jun Ding, Lei Li, Xiaobing Wang, Yiyang Liu, Guangbiao Wei, Deliang Li, Yu Liu, Guangzhao Peng, Shizhen Zhang, Changling Lao

“…Abstract The Sichuan Basin has yielded abundant sauropod dinosaurs from the Middle-Late Jurassic, and Mamenchisauridae had predominated the dinosaur faunae during the Late Jurassic in the Sichuan Basin. …”
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A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal. A correction of Santos et al. 2009 by Vanda F. Santos, José J. Moratalla, Rafael Royo-Torres, Matteo Belvedere, Diego Castanera, Luis M.P. Ceríaco, Pedro Mocho, Marc Merino, Christian A. Meyer, Lara Sciscio

“…This tracksite yields a completely new and unique morphology of sauropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian–Bathonian). …”
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A MESOZOIC DINO-FEAST: MULTIPLE TEETH MARKS ON A SAUROPOD DINOSAUR BONE FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF PATAGONIA AND EVIDENCE ON THEROPOD FEEDING BEHAVIOR by Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Ariel Hernán Méndez, Karen Ulloa-Guaiquín, Facundo Irazoqui, Yuong-Nam Lee

“…We present here the description of a fragment of sauropod appendicular bone, which exhibits teeth marks consistent with multiple trace makers. …”
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A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China by Ning Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xinxin Ren, Daqing Li, Hailu You

“…Abstract Sauropod dinosaurs were gigantic quadrupedal herbivores. …”
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Dinosaur Tracksites from the Maestrazgo UNESCO Global Geopark (Teruel, Spain) by Luis Alcalá, Alberto Cobos

“…Numerous Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous tracksites are found in the Maestrazgo UNESCO Global Geopark; sauropod and ornithopod tracks are abundant and there are some rare stegosaurians and theropods. …”
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Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies by Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst, Ursula B. Göhlich

“…Using the caudal vertebrae, we reconstructed and analysed the potential tail-lashing capabilities of Plateosaurus, comparing its biomechanics with those of other fossil and extant long-tailed reptilian taxa, including the extinct sauropod Diplodocus, the extant Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), and the green iguana (Iguana iguana). …”
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Evolution of hind limb morphology of Titanosauriformes (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) analyzed via 3D geometric morphometrics reveals wide-gauge posture as an exaptation for gigantism by Adrián Páramo, Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso, Francisco Ortega

“…The sauropod hind limb was the main support that allowed their gigantic body masses and a wide range of dynamic stability adaptations. …”
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Habitat preference of the dinosaurs from the Ibero-Armorican domain (Upper Cretaceous, south-western Europe) by Bernat Josep Vázquez López, Albert Sellés, Albert Prieto-Márquez, Bernat Vila

“…In south-western Europe, the dinosaur-bearing formations ranging the late Campanian to the latest Maastrichtian encompass coastal and lowland environments that produced hundreds of fossil localities with evidence of titanosaurian sauropods, maniraptoran and abelisauroid theropods, and nodosaurid ankylosaurs, together with rhabdodontid and hadrosauroid ornithopods. …”
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Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny by Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, Dylan C. T. Rowe, Diane Scott, Robert R. Reisz

“…This generally conservative body plan of early-diverging sauropodomorphs likely suggests a similar postural change for the early members of this large clade that preceded the obligate quadruped sauropods.…”
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Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) by Andrew Danison, Mathew Wedel, Daniel Barta, Holly Woodward, Holley Flora, Andrew Lee, Eric Snively

“…However, our re-evaluation of these specimens shows that some of this material, including the holotype, is more parsimoniously referred to diplodocid sauropods found in the same quarry rather than an allosaurid. …”
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