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Composite Megaraptorid Reconstruction (OUTDATED)

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THIS ONE IS OUTDATED. PLEASE REFER TO THIS VERSION:
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Megaraptorids. That unusual and elusive bunch of Gondwanan theropods that no one ever knew a thing about. Mostly known from partial limb fragments, people thought that they must've been some offshoot bunch of carnosaur or spinosaur type theropods, leaning more towards the Neovenatorids. 

Just as we got comfortable with this idea, a juvenile Megaraptor specimen was found and for the first time ever, we got skull pieces. Yay! More things for this bunch of dinosaurs. But what the hell?

It was a longirostrine tyrannosauroid!?

So, we have a clade of big armed, lanky, narrow snounted, small headed tyrannosaurs from the wrong parts of the world. Megaraptorids were shaping up to be essentially the exact opposite of what tyrannosauroids should be. So what would a whole one be like? What was going on?!

Well if I've done this correctly, welll... That skeleton, really.

The composite consists of the following:
The hips and vertebrae consist of known and inferred material from Aerosteon (Sereno et al. 2008).
The legs and arms were Australovenator (White et al. 2013; White et al. 2012; Hocknull et al. 2009).
The hands, ulna and scapula were swapped from Australovenator and Aerosteon with available Megaraptor parts (Porfiri et al. 2007; Novas & Calvo, 2009).
The dentary was Australovenator (Hocknull et al 2009).
The skull was modified from the restored juvenile Megaraptor skull (Porfiri et al 2014) to match known Aerosteon and Orkoraptor skull fragments (Sereno et al. 2008; Novas et al. 2008).
The posterior sections of the lower jaw, the cervical and dorsal ribs, sternum and gastrilia, the ischium and the caudal vertebrae were speculative (I am aware that a few ribs and gastralia are known for Australovenator, but I wasn't sure how to apply them in context so I ommitted them for the time being).

Anyway, this is what I ended up with. My available image resources for megaraptords in general were fairly sparse so if I've incorrectly scaled some of the material, or there's important remains that we have but I've missed, I'm more than happy to make adjustments based on any new data.

EDIT: Oh yeah, one last thing. I'd like to see what people do with this skeletal. If you use it as a reference, link me to the result please! :) 
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AntonellisofbBender's avatar
is this Autralovenator?