This animal was announced over the summer, along with 2 large sauropods. Since it's the first good theropod remains from down under they named the beastie Autralovenator. I finally got around to drawing it, and a good thing I waited so long. Last week a new paper was published that finally (for now at least) sheds some light on a new group of theropods The Neovenatoridea. This appears to be a second group of allosaurs, the sister group of the Carchadontosaurs, and in this group is Australovenator and drum roll please.... Megaraptor.
So Megaraptor isn't a Spinosaur or a Carcharadontosaur but a really advanced allosaur. I'm still geeking about this!More later, including a new giant Tyrannosaur.. oooohhhh!
Best,
Brett
Great! finally, there is some concensus (or a scientific basis, or at least a robuts phylogenetic hypotesis) about how Megaraptor was...
ReplyDeletelook... he is screaming... colour me, Brett!!!
A minor critic... Australovenator was so slender? I imagined it more... robust...
the rest, fantastic... as always!
Thanks again for the paper!
ReplyDeleteAustralovenator was not a heavy animal. I might have gone a bit too slender but not much;)
Best,
Brett
Oh... Ok! my mistake!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome (for the paper!)