New Dinosaur Species Discovered

Komodo99

Komodo99

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A new species of Oviraptorid dinosaur was discovered yesterday.It has been given the name Corythoraptor Jacobsi and was discovered near a train station located in Ganzhou,Jiangxi Province in Southern China.According to the palaeontologists that discovered it had a very pronounced casque on it's head similar to modern day cassowary.The specimen consists of a skull,jaw and nearly complete skeleton.
 
Komodo99 said:
A new species of Oviraptorid dinosaur was discovered yesterday.It has been given the name Corythoraptor Jacobsi and was discovered near a train station located in Ganzhou,Jiangxi Province in Southern China.
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those Chinese palaeontologists sure work fast!
 
A new species of Titanosaurian has been discovered in Southwestern Tanzania.Christened Shingopana Songwensis,it lived during the Cretaceous period.The skeleton consists of neck vertebrae,ribs,one humerus, and a section of the lower jaw.It was thought to be related to the Titanosaurs of South America such as Saltasaurus and Argentinosaurus.
 
Komodo99 said:
A new species of Titanosaurian has been discovered in Southwestern Tanzania.Christened Shingopana Songwensis,it lived during the Cretaceous period.The skeleton consists of neck vertebrae,ribs,one humerus, and a section of the lower jaw.It was thought to be related to the Titanosaurs of South America such as Saltasaurus and Argentinosaurus.
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the abstract of the paper describing the new species:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2017.1343250?journalCode=ujvp20
 
Other new dinosaurs this month:
the amazingly-preserved nodosaur from oil sands in Alberta that was widely publicised after it's discovery in 2011 is named as a new genus & species, Borealopelta markmitchelli.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30808-4

Patagotitan mayorum, a contender for the largest known dinosaur, has been described from the end of the early Cretaceous in Argentina.
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-patagotitan-mayorum-biggest-dinosaur.html

Latenivenatrix mcmasterae, a new Troodontid from Alberta's Dinosaur Park Formation. It is the largest Troodont known, and several specimens previously referred to Troodon have been found to be this new species.
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