Stephen Poropat

Experience

• 2017–present
  Research Associate, Museums Victoria
• 2011–present
  Research Associate, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History
• 2022–present
  Research Associate, Curtin University
• 2021–2022
  Adjunct Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology
• 2017–2020
  Postdoctoral Researcher (Palaeontology), Swinburne University of Technology
• 2011–2015
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Palaeontology), Uppsala University
• 2008–2011
  Ph.D. Candidate, Monash Unversity

Education

• 2011 
  Monash University, PhD
• 2007 
  Monash University, BSc (Hons)
• 2006 
  Monash University, BA/BSc

Publications

• 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
• 2022
  New anhanguerian (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) remains from the Early Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia, Alcheringa
• 2022
  On the first dinosaur tooth reported from Australia (Theropoda: Megaraptoridae), Alcheringa
• 2022
  A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogenetic growth, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2022
  The osteology of Ferrodraco lentoni, an anhanguerid pterosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2021
  Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on skull and neck evolution in early titanosaurs and the biogeographic origins of Australian dinosaur faunas, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• 2021
  A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, PeerJ
• 2021
  Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2021
  Postcranial osteology of the basally branching hadrosauroid dinosaur Tanius sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2020
  New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia, Royal Society Open Science
• 2020
  How to Live with Dinosaurs: Ecosystems Across the Mesozoic, Nature Through Time
• 2020
  Osteology of the wide-hipped titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Savannasaurus elliottorum from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2020
  First elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur (Ceratosauria: Noasauridae) from Australia — a cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria, Gondwana Research
• 2020
  An overview of Cretaceous vertebrates from the Chubut Group of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, central Patagonia, Argentina, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• 2020
  Multiple hypotheses about two mammalian upper dentitions from the Early Cretaceous of Australia, Alcheringa
• 2019
  Reappraisal of Mythunga camara Molnar & Thulborn, 2007 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueria) from the upper Albian Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia, Cretaceous Research
• 2019
  Comparative three-dimensional moment arm analysis of the sauropod forelimb: implications for the transition to a wide-gauge stance in titanosaurs, The Anatomical Record
• 2019
  Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia, Scientific Reports
• 2019
  New megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) remains from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation of Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 2018
  Three-dimensional musculoskeletal modelling of the sauropodomorph hind limb: the effect of postural change on muscle leverage, The Anatomical Record
• 2018
  Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia — an overview of research to date, Alcheringa
• 2018
  Osteology of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Mendozasaurus neguyelap: implications for basal titanosaur relationships, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• 2017
  Dinosaur Stampede, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History
• 2017
  Oldest meiolaniid turtle remains from Australia: evidence from the Eocene Kerosene Creek Member of the Rundle Formation, Queensland, Alcheringa
• 2017
  Comparative neuroanatomy of extinct horned turtles (Meiolaniidae) and extant terrestrial turtles (Testudinidae), with comments on the palaeobiological implications of selected endocranial features, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• 2017
  Reappraisal of Austrosaurus mckillopi Longman, 1933 from the Allaru Mudstone of Queensland, Australia’s first named Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur, Alcheringa
• 2016
  Reassessment of the earliest documented stegosaurian fossils from Asia, Cretaceous Research
• 2016
  Late Cretaceous dinosaurian remains from the Kristianstad Basin of southern Sweden, Geological Society, London, Special Publications
• 2016
  Late Triassic capitosaurian remains from Svalbard and the palaeobiogeographical context of Scandinavian Arctic temnospondyls, Geological Society, London, Special Publications
• 2016
  New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography, Scientific Reports
• 2015
  Reassessment of the non-titanosaurian somphospondylan Wintonotitan wattsi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia, Papers in Palaeontology
• 2015
  Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the middle Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan titanosauriform dispersal, Gondwana Research
• 2015
  The dentary of Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae); implications for megaraptorid dentition, PeerJ
• 2013
  Photographic atlas and three-dimensional reconstruction of the holotype skull of Euhelopus zdanskyi with description of additional cranial elements, PLOS One
• 2013
  New Australovenator hind limb elements pertaining to the holotype reveal the most complete neovenatorid leg, PLOS One
• 2013
  Reassessment of coelurosaurian (Dinosauria, Theropoda) remains from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong Province, China, Cretaceous Research
• 2013
  Carl Wiman’s sauropods: The Uppsala Museum of Evolution’s collection, GFF
• 2012
  Early Cretaceous ostracod biostratigraphy of eastern Brazil and western Africa: an overview, Gondwana Research
• 2012
  Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous non-marine ostracod genera Hourcqia Krömmelbein, 1965 and Pattersoncypris Bate, 1972 with the description of a new genus, Kroemmelbeincypris, Journal of Paleontology

Professional Memberships

• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Research Areas

• Other Earth Sciences (0499)
• Other Biological Sciences (0699)