Research

2020

2019

Poropat, S.F., Pentland, A.H., Duncan, R.J., Bevitt, J.J., Vickers-Rich, P. and Rich, T.H., 2020. First elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur (Ceratosauria: Noasauridae) from Australia—A cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria. Gondwana Research

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Sloan, T. Elliott, R.A., Elliott, H.A., Elliott, J.A. and Elliott, D.A, 2019. Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 13454 (new taxon named: Ferrodraco lentoni)

Stilwell, J.D., Langendam, A., Mays, C., Sutherland, L.J., Arillo, A., Bickel, D.J., De Silva, W.T., Pentland, A.H., Roghi, G., Price, G.D. and Cantrill, D.J., 2020. Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems. Scientific reports, 10(1), pp.1-11

White, M.A., Bell, P.R., Poropat, S.F., Pentland, A.H., Rigby, S.L., Cook, A.G., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A., 2020. New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia. Royal Society Open Science, 7(1), p.191462

Conference Presentations

Adele Pentland. (2024, October) Play Dead: Grown-Ups Dig Dinosaurs. Australasian Science and Technology Engagement Network Conference. Melbourne, Australia.

Adele Pentland, Joseph Bevitt, Alan M Tait, Ruairidh J Duncan and Stephen F Poropat (2023, November) New pterosaur remains from the Toolebuc Formation (middle–upper uppermost Albian) of Queensland, Australia. Oral Presentation. CAVEPS, Melbourne, Australia.

Stephen Poropat, Samantha Rigby, Adele Pentland, Phil Bell, Nathan Enriquez, Philip Mannion, Joseph Bevitt, Mackenzie Enchelmaier, Trish Sloan, David Elliott, and Kliti Grice (2023, July). Up the guts: an Australian sauropod preserving skin and probable gut contents. Oral Presenration. PDU3. Perth, Australia.

Stephen Poropat, Phil Mannion, Sam Rigby, Ruairidh Duncan, Adele Pentland, Joseph Bevitt, Trish Sloan, and David Elliott (2023, July). A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia: implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs. Oral Presentation. PDU3. Perth, Australia

A.H. Pentland and S.F. Poropat (2023, July). A new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Toolebuc Formation (middle–upper uppermost Albian) of northeast Australia. Oral Presentation. PDU3. Perth, Australia

Jake Kotevski, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Adele H. Pentland, James P. Rule, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, Alistair R. Evans, and Stephen F. Poropat (2023, July). A megaraptoran (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Early Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia. Oral Presentation. PDU3. Perth, Australia.

A.H. Pentland (2019, October). New perspectives on the Australian pterosaur fauna based on a new material from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian). Oral Presentation. CAVEPS. Brisbane, Australia.

A.H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, T. Sloan, R. A. Elliott, H. A. Elliott, J. A. Elliott, D. A. Elliott (2019, October). A new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–Lower Turonian) of northeast Australia: paleobiogeographic and paleoecological implications. Oral Presentation. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Brisbane, Australia.

Eric the elaphrosaurine. Artwork by Ruairidh J. Duncan, 2020.

Ferrodraco lentoni. Artwork by Travis R. Tischler, 2019.

2021

Rigby, S.L., Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Pentland, A.H., Sloan, T., Rumbold, S.J., Webster, C.B. and Elliott, D.A., 2021. A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Ziegler, T., Pentland, A.H., Rigby, S.L., Duncan, R.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A., 2021. A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. PeerJ.

Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Rigby, S.L., Duncan, R.J., Pentland, A.H., Bevitt, J.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A., 2023. A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs. Royal Society Open Science.

Pentland, A.H. and Poropat, S.F., 2023. A review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Gondwanan pterosaur record. Gondwana Research.

2022

The Snake Creek Tracksite. Photo supplied by AAOD.

Poropat, S.F., Frauenfelder, T.G., Mannion, P.D., Rigby, S.L., Pentland, A.H., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A., 2022. Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms. Royal Society Open Science.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Rigby, S.L., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T.H. and Elliott, D.A., 2022. New anhanguerian pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa.

Ferrodraco lentoni. Artwork by Ruairidh J. Duncan, 2022.

2024

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., White, M.A., Rigby, S.L., Bevitt, J.J., Duncan, R.J., Sloan, T., Elliott, R.A., Elliott, H.A., Elliott, J.A. and Elliott, D.A., 2022. The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

2023

Haliskia peterseni. Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto, 2024.

Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Duncan, R.J., Kellner, A.W., Bantim, R.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tait, A.M. and Grice, K., 2024. Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.11789 (new taxon named: Haliskia peterseni)

Beeston, S.L., Poropat, S.F., Mannion, P.D., Pentland, A.H., Enchelmaier, M.J., Sloan, T. and Elliott, D.A., 2024. Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and description of new specimens. PeerJ, 12, p.e17180.

Kotevski, J., Duncan, R.J., Pentland, A.H., Rule, J.P., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T.H., Fitzgerald, E.M., Evans, A.R. and Poropat, S.F., 2024. A megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia. Cretaceous Research, 154, p.105769.

2025

Poropat, S.F., Tosolini, A.-M.P., Beeston, S.L., Enchelmaier, M.J., Pentland, A.H., Mannion, P.D., Upchurch, P., Chin, K., Korasidis, V.A., Bell, P.R., Enriquez, N.J., Holman, A.I., Brosnan, L.M., Elson, A.L., Tripp, M., Scarlett, A.G., Godel, B., Madden, R.H.C., Rickard, W.D.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tischler, T.R., Croxford, T.L.C., Sloan, T., Elliott, D.A., Grice, K. (in press) Fossilised gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs. Current Biology.

Pentland, A.H. & Poropat, S.F., 2019. Reappraisal of Mythunga camara Molnar & Thulborn, 2007 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueria) from the upper Albian Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia. Cretaceous Research, 93, pp.151–169