Dinosaur News #20

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New dinosaurs include hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) Acristavus gagslarsoni, archaeopterygid (Archaeopteryx lithographica and kin) Xiaotingia zhengi, oviraptorosaurs (box-headed dinosaurs) Ojoraptorsaurus boerei and Epichirostenotes curriei, and an indeterminate carcharodontosaurid (shark dinosaur).

The phylogenetic analysis in the description of Xiaotingia zhengi finds Anchiornis huxleyi to be an archaeopterygid and archaeopterygids to be deinonychosaurs ("raptors"). Australodocus bohetii is found to be a titanosauriform and Camposaurus arizonensis is found to be a neotheropod related to Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis. A study on how sphenisciforms (penguins) jump out of the water is published.
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Y'know, it's funny. Back when Paul wrote Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, he considered his placement of Archaeopteryx as a deinonychosaur as "by far the most radical" of his reclassifications. Looking back on the book from a 21st century perspective, it's one of his more plausible ones.