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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ozraptor ( Australian thief ) is an dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Colalura Sandstone of Australia. In 1967 a group of four twelve-year-old Scotch College schoolboys found a fossil at the Bringo Railway Cutting site near , which they showed to Professor Rex Prider of the University of Western Australia. He had a cast made that he sent to experts of the in London who thought it likely belonged to an extinct turtle. Re-evaluation of the bone in the nineties after being prepared out of the rock by John Albert Long and Ralph Molnar showed that it actually was the shinbone of some sort of . In 1998 Long and Molnar named and described the type (and only) species Ozraptor subotaii. The generic name is derived from Ozzies , the nickname for Australians, and a Latin raptor, seizer . The specific name honours a fictional character, the swift-running thief and archer Subotai from the movie Conan the Barbarian.

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