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Re: [dinosaur] Megaraptoran from the Winton Formation




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Thanks for catching this one. Oddly, it doesn't show up in newest date order when I run search queries on the Royal Society journals website for articles with "fossil," the term I ordinarily check on early Wednesday mornings (usually posted after midnight my time). It does show up for "dinosaur" and "theropod"--but only after a list of earlier papers on archosaurs from the 13th, so I didn't go down far enough to see the 15th (which should have come before the 13th). I guess I'll haveÂto run additional queries in the future and not assume that "newest" in fact mean "newest."

Some additional news stories on the find (I posted one a few days ago that didn't have a link):

with video

https://www.9news.com.au/national/new-dinosaur-discovered-in-western-queensland/717e8063-0707-469c-a769-c8f74b6eebde

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These ones have a link to the paper

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-fossils-largest-theropod-date-australia.htÂÂ

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/new-dinosaur-remains-unearthed-in-australia



On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 4:42 AM Alberta Claw <albertonykus@gmail.com> wrote:
Whoops, forgot to include the URL... The paper is open access.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191462

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:36 PM Alberta Claw <albertonykus@gmail.com> wrote:
Don't think this paper has been mentioned yet:

M.A. White, P.R. Bell, S.F. Poropat, A.H. Pentland, S.L. Rigby, A.G. Cook, T. Sloan, and D.A. Elliott (2020)
New theropod remains and implications for megaraptorid diversity in the Winton Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous), Queensland, Australia
Royal Society Open Science 7: 191462
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191462

The holotype specimen of the megaraptorid Australovenator wintonensis, from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation (Rolling Downs Group, Eromanga Basin) of central Queensland, is the most complete non-avian theropod found in Australia to date. In fact, the holotype of A. wintonensis and isolated megaraptorid teeth (possibly referable to Australovenator) constitute the only theropod body fossils reported from the Winton Formation. Herein, we describe a new fragmentary megaraptorid specimen from the Winton Formation, found near the type locality of A. wintonensis. The new specimen comprises parts of two vertebrae, two metatarsals, a pedal phalanx and multiple unidentifiable bone fragments. Although the new megaraptorid specimen is poorly preserved, it includes the only megaraptorid vertebrae known from Queensland. The presence of pleurocoels and highly pneumatic caudal centra with camerate and camellate internal structures permit the assignment of these remains to Megaraptora gen. et sp. indet. A morphological comparison revealed that the distal end of metatarsal II and the partial pedal phalanx II-1 of the new specimen are morphologically divergent from Australovenator. This might indicate the presence of a second megaraptorid taxon in the Winton Formation, or possibly intraspecific variation.