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| Thanos, the Mad Titan, disappointed with his namesake. |
A new dinosaur was published today in
Historical Biology:
Thanos simonattoi, named after Sergio Simonatto, who discovered the specimen, but more visibly Thanos, the Marvel villain. It might not shock you to known that Rafael Delcourt's name is on this paper. A few months ago, he gave us the
Etrigansauria, an
unnecessary name that has designs on replacing the perfectly-good Neoceratosauria. Delcourt & Vidoi lori (2018) identify
Thanos as an abelisaurid close to Brachyrostra. This all seems fine until you see the holotype:
