2025 in reptile paleontology
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This catalog of fossil reptile research published in 2025 includes a list of new taxa that were described during the year 2025, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2025.
Squamates
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Squamate research
[edit]- López-Rueda et al. (2025) describe new mosasaur material from the Upper Cretaceous Labor-Tierna and Plaeners formations (Colombia), including the first record of a member of the genus Globidens from northern South America reported to date.[1]
Ichthyosauromorphs
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Ichthyosauromorph research
[edit]- Meyerkort et al. (2025) describe a phalanx bone of a brachypterygiid ichthyosaur from the middle–upper Cenomanian strata of the Gearle Siltstone (Australia), representing the geologically youngest ichthyosaur record from the Southern Hemisphere reported to date.[2]
Sauropterygians
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Sauropterygian research
[edit]Turtles
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Turtle research
[edit]- A study on the neuroanatomy of Azzabaremys moragjonesi, providing evidence of convergences of its neuroanatomical structures with those of other turtles adapted to marine environments, is published by Martín-Jiménez & Pérez-García (2025).[3]
Archosauriformes
[edit]Archosaurs
[edit]Other archosauriforms
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Archosauriform research
[edit]Other reptiles
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Other reptile research
[edit]Reptiles in general
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ López-Rueda, J. S.; Polcyn, M. J.; Lindgren, J.; Cruz-Guevara, L. E.; Rodríguez-Sañudo, A. S. (2025). "Mosasaur (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Colombia, including the first occurrence of the genus Globidens". Cretaceous Research. 166. 105997. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105997.
- ^ Meyerkort, R. D.; Kear, B. P.; Everhart, M. J.; Siversson, M. (2025). "Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere". Cretaceous Research. 168. 106071. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106071.
- ^ Martín-Jiménez, M.; Pérez-García, A. (2025). "The first neuroanatomical study of a marine pleurodire (the large Paleocene bothremydid Azzabaremys moragjonesi) reveals convergences with other clades of pelagic turtles". Fossil Record. 28 (1): 1–15. doi:10.3897/fr.28.e130418.