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Reporting in PLoS ONE, a team of researchers from the Queensland Museum and the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History, Australia, describe the fossils of three new mid-Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Winton Formation in eastern Australia: two giant, herbivorous sauropods and a carnivorous theropod. The fossil of the carnivore, named by the authors of the paper Australovenator wintonensis (nicknamed "Banjo"), is the most complete meat-eating dinosaur found in Australia, to date. The two herbivores, named Wintonotitan wattsi ("Clancy") and Diamantinasaurus matildae ("Matilda") are different types of titanosaur, the largest type of dinosaur ever to have lived. While Clancy represents a tall, gracile animal, which might have fitted into a giraffe-like niche, solid, stocky Matilda represents a more hippo-like species. The three dinosaurs add to our knowledge of the Australian dinosaurian record, which is crucial for the understanding of the global paleobiogeography of dinosaurian groups.
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