The Mesozoic era was the age of reptiles which occurred 250 to 65 million years ago. During this time, dinosaurs were the rulers of Australia. Humans did not exist.
Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Winton in Queensland and Broome in Western Australia, are places where dinosaur remains have been found in Australia.
One of the biggest dinosaurs discovered in Australia was a giant sauropod nicknamed "Elliot", after David Elliot, a sheep farmer who discovered the bones.
Elliot, at 21 metres long, weighed as much as a jet airliner and was as high as a two-storey building. Elliot was a plant-eater and the rocks in which his remains were found, have been dated at 95 to 98 million years old. Strangely enough, these behemoths had beaks like those of birds or turtles.
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| Skeletal of Wintonotitan, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006190 — Image #2 |
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| Fossilized sauropod footprints on Broom Beach, WA. |
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| A Sauropod femur at the Australian Age of the Dinosaurs Natural History Museum, Winton Queensland |
Back in the 1980s, a miner named Bob Foster was working at the outback town of Lightning Ridge, where he kept finding things which looked like "horses' hooves". After finding and smashing these hoof-like specimens for a few months, Bob decided to travel to the Australian Museum in Sydney, where he was met with much excitement.
Bob had found a new dinosaur species, which was named Fostoria dhimbangunma. The four scapulae (shoulder blades), all from different sized animals, are the first dinosaur "herd" to be discovered in Australia.
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| Opalised skeleton of a dinosaur found in Coober Pedy (South Australia Museum) |
In 2004, a member of the Mackenzie family found a lump of rock which he thought might be a fossil, on their property, west of Eromanga in South West Queensland. The Queensland Museum determined the specimen was the fossilised remains of a 95 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur.
Since then, many dinosaur sites have been found on the property, including Australia’s largest dinosaur, a 95-98 million-year-old titanosaur, nicknamed Cooper, which has a long neck and tail and a massive body.
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| This photo is on the wall of the Eromanga Natural History Museum of the dinosaur nicknamed, Cooper, Australia's largest dinosaur, walking by the Royal Hotel |
