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First Described Dinosaur in 2018; It's an Australian one, as well
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https://peerj.com/articles/4113.pdf
A nice paper of a new non-avian Dinosaur from the Albian of Australia, Diluvicursor pickeringi, which lived with Leaellynasaura and Atlascoposaurus. The paper also contains a skeletal of the animal, which is always helpful.
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Having a skeletal is a pretty low bar for what constitutes a "good paper" IMO, but this one is definitely that. Plenty of scans and pictures of the specimens, relatively extensive description and comparisons, comments on musculature, going beyond what's necessary to describe another vertebrae from the locality that's intermediate, as well as having a good palaeoecology section.

One thing I found odd/interesting is that they mention musculatory differences indicate it locomoted differently than Hypsilophodon, but the don't say how; they then have a whole paragraph talking about how it might have ran very similarly to, of all things, Heyuannia specifically.
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Well - considering it is an Australian Species - it should help in understanding what kind of dinosaurs where in Australia and Antarctica.
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Or throw another problem in the hat. Victoria has turned up three "ornithopod" heads, three taxa known from postcranial remains, and there's four names between them now. Hell if we know what goes with what.
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Or throw another problem in the hat. Victoria has turned up three "ornithopod" heads, three taxa known from postcranial remains, and there's four names between them now. Hell if we know what goes with what.
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