Comments on: Meet Banjo, Matilda and Clancy: Three New Dinosaurs From Australia

By: john

john — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:27:03 +0000

why doesn’t it say the size of banjo and the others?, there really cool but i want to know more REAL detail, including size

By: KAP

KAP — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:25:13 +0000

There is a whole lot more of Banjo and Matilda both waiting to be uncovered and waiting to be prepped. The preservation of the material and the countryside in which it is found makes it difficlt for excavation to happen for any longer than two weeks or so at a time. Given the richness of the site there will be at least another year or two of digging before the rest of both animals comes out. Not to mention a few years after that before all the material is prepped.

By: Waltzing with Dinosaurs « everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog

Waltzing with Dinosaurs « everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:47:40 +0000

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By: Vasha

Vasha — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:22:02 +0000

According to a comment by the paper’s lead author on SV-POW!, there’s actually more material of these species, or at least of Diamantinasaurus, still being prepped. They apparently decided they had enough material to publish now, and weren’t going to wait several more years for the preparators to finish — a reasonable compromise between the pressure to publicise one’s work and the inevitably excruciatingly slow process of preparation. I suppose that if they find more pieces they believe belong to the same individual as the type specimen, those will be referred as paratypes.