Morphological comparisons of metacarpal I for Australovenator wintonensis and Rapator ornitholestoides: implications for their taxonomic relationships

@article{White2013MorphologicalCO,
  title={Morphological comparisons of metacarpal I for Australovenator wintonensis and Rapator ornitholestoides: implications for their taxonomic relationships},
  author={Matt A. White and Peter L. Falkingham and Alex G. Cook and Scott A. Hocknull and David A. Elliott},
  journal={Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology},
  year={2013},
  volume={37},
  pages={435 - 441}
}
WHITE, M.A., FALKINGHAM, P.L., COOK, A.G., HOCKNULL, S.A. & ELLIOTT, D.A., 2013. Morphological comparisons of metacarpal I for Australovenator wintonensis and Rapator ornitholestoides: implications for their taxonomic relationships. Alcheringa 37, 1 - 7. ISSN 0311-5518. Various comparisons of left metacarpal I of the Australovenator wintonensis holotype have been made with Rapator ornitholestoides. These specimens were identified as being morphologically more similar than either was to that of… 
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