Three new Australian dinosaurs

From the Dinosaur Mailing List: Introducing Australovenator wintonensis (and a couple of titanosaurs): http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/03/2615874.htm Free from Plos One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006190   Australovenator wintonensis Ignoring the stupid plant eaters: Our analysis returned five most-parsimonious trees with a tree length of 181 steps; a consistency index of 0.59 and a retention index of 0.91 (Figure 38C). All five trees returned a similar position for Australovenator, as the sister taxon to the Carcharodontosauridae [18] with a well-supported bootstrap value of 78%. Resolution within the carcharodontosaurids remained the same as the previous analysis [18] with Neovenator remaining the basal-most taxon and high bootstrap values supporting the carcharodontosaurid clades.

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