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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Short Article: Fossils of largest theropod to date found in Australia

Title:
Fossils of largest theropod to date found in Australia

Author:
Bob Yirka

Published:
Phys.org, 16 January 2020

From the article:
"A team of researcers from the University of New England, the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Natural History Museum and Swinburne of Technology, all in Australia, has identified fossils found near Winton as remains of the largest theropod found to date in Australia. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes the bones they found and its likely species."

To read Bob Yirka's article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-fossils-largest-theropod-date-australia.html

Scholarly article on this topic:
White, M.A., Bell, P.R., Poropat, S.F., Pentland, A.H., Rigby, S.L., Cook, A.G., Sloan, T. & 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, volume 7, issue 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191462