JVP 29(1) chock full o' dinosaurs (Spoiler Alert)

["Rob Taylor" <rjtaylor68@comcast.net>]

In what's shaping up to be a banner week, there's no less than nine articles 
on non-avian dinosaurs in the new issue of JVP, plus plesiosaurs, birds, and 
even a stray pterosaur paper. Regrettably, I don't have time to key in the 
citations (much less the abstracts), but there's at least one new 
dinosaurian taxon, the Argentinean sauropodomorph Adeopapposaurus mognai. 
(That's Latin for "far eating lizard," on account of the long neck.) Looked 
like such a fun name to type, I just had to give it a try!

(Oh, alright, I'll type that one in...)

ADEOPAPPOSAURUS MOGNAI, GEN. ET SP. NOV. (DINOSAURIA: SAUROPODOMORPHA), WITH 
COMMENTS ON ADAPTATIONS OF BASAL SAUROPODOMORPHA
pp. 142-164
Ricardo N. Martínez

Abstract - Prosauropods are basal sauropodomorphs that were the major 
terrestrial faunal components from the Norian until their extinction during 
the Toarcian. Their status as a natural group is debatable. In the present 
work I describe Adeopapposaurus mognai, a new sauropodomorph from the Cañón 
del Colorado Formation, in northwestern Argentina. Diagnostic autapomorphies 
and combination of characters  of  Adeopapposaurus include a series of large 
foramina in a sub-vertical row on the lateral surface of the premaxilla; 
strongly rugose depression bordered by a protuberance with a series of 
foramina in a sub-vertical row, on the lateral surface of the interior end 
of the dentary; eleven anteroposteriorly elongated cervical vertebrae and 
thirteen dorsal vertebrae with neural arches taller than the respective 
centra. Phylogenetically Adeopapposaurus is resolved as the sister group to 
Massospondylus; differing from the latter based on differences in mandible 
and premaxilla and addition of one dorsal vertebra to the neck. The 
specimens described here reveal numerous herbivorous adapatations, including 
the presence of a highly vascularized bony plate in the premaxilla and 
dentary, which indicates that it had a horny beak.