Qld Museum confirms 2006 bone discovery belonged to Australia's largest dinosaur

[gary]

ABC News is reporting that the Queensland Museum has confirmed that dinosaur bones unearthed in 2006 near outback Eromanga belonged
to the largest species of dinosaur known to have existed in Australia.



Story here :-
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-07/qld-australias-largest-dinosaur-discovered-eromanga-outback/100196458

Paper "A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia" by Hocknull et. al. PeerJ :-
https://peerj.com/articles/11317/

[multiweb]

The mini cooper.

[julianh72]

I was up at the "Age of Dinosaurs" https://www.australianageofdinosaurs.com/ near Winton just 2 weeks ago (and we also did a side-trip to Lark Quarry dinosaur stampede site). We were very lucky - just 10 days before we got there, they had opened a new exhibit of a sauropod track-way, which has been relocated from its natural site in a riverbed, where it would have very quickly been eroded if left untouched.

They're also about to launch a dark-skies observatory - the "impact crater" structure was complete, but no telescopes were installed when we were there.

Well worth a visit, if anybody is travelling through western Queensland!

[AdamJL]

An animal that size would have provided quite the meal for another big and yet undiscovered animal :)

[Sunfish]

That humerus is nothing to laugh at.

[julianh72]

The "Age of Dinosaurs" museum outside Winton has the skeletons of "Banjo" (Australovenator wintonensis - a theropod "megaraptor" predator about 1.6 metres high at the hip, and 5 to 6 metres long https://www.australianageofdinosaurs.com/page/48/australian-age-of-dinosaurs-australovenator-wintonensis ) and "Matilda" (Diamantinasaurus matildae - a sauropod around 15 metres long https://www.australianageofdinosaurs.com/page/47/australian-age-of-dinosaurs-diamantinasaurus-matildae).

The two skeletons were found intertwined at the same location, suggesting Banjo may have been feasting on Matilda's carcass at the time of Banjo's demise (although it is also possible that both carcasses were washed into the same waterhole independently). It seems unlikely that a predator the size of Banjo could have taken down a sauropod, so it is more likely that Banjo's normal diet consisted of smaller ornithopod dinosaurs, as well as being an opportunistic carrion eater when presented with 20 tonnes or so of sauropod meat.

[blindman]

Do you stil believe in that?

[julianh72]

Do you have a better theory of why two distinctly different dinosaur skeletons (one medium-sized predator, and one much larger herbivore) were found intertwined at the same location (which is a very rare find)?

I think it's a better theory than that the two skeletons (Banjo and Matilda) were two big lizards who unfortunately got washed away in a 40-day deluge brought about by a vengeful god, just before they could get to the safety of Noah's Ark.

[AdamJL]

:question::question::question:
Uhhhh what else is the option?

Edit: Oh I just saw your signature. Unless you’re making a joke, you should look up what “theory” means in science. It’s not what you think and it’s very different to how the word is used in ordinary lexicon

[RB]

We're not going down that route of discussion here.
Take it to pm's if need be.
The only reason I've not deleted the posts is to serve as a warning.

Thanks and now back on topic, please.

RB