AR Dinosaurs - Group C

Scientific name: Kunbarrasaurus ieversi (Ievers’ Shield Lizard)
Age: Cretaceous Period (105 – 103 million years ago)
Size: 2-3 metres long
Location: Richmond, central Queensland

Kunbarrasaurus was an ankylosaur, an armoured plant-eating dinosaur. Its stomach contents have also been preserved and found to contain the remains of primitive plants. Kunbarra means ‘shield’ in the local Mayi (Wunumara) language while ieversi is named after property manager, Ian Ievers, where the skeleton was found. It is the most complete dinosaur skeleton found in Australia. Queensland Museum preparator, Joanne Wilkinson, used a new acid drip technique to expose its bones from the matrix.

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Scientific name: Theropod dinosaur
Age: Cretaceous Period (95-93 million years ago)
Size: 30-45 centimetres long
Location: Lark Quarry, central Queensland

'Skartopus australis' is an ichnospecies, which is a name for theropod-like footprints preserved at the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument, Lark Quarry Conservation Park. The actual species name is therefore unknown, but the footprints are referred to a small theropods (meat/insect eating dinosaur). Timimus was established on one of the largest dinosaur bones ever found in Victoria, a long and slender thighbone. Another smaller, and presumably juvenile, thighbone was found close by. Initially, it was thought that Timimus might be related to the ostrich dinosaurs (ornithomimids), hence the name. However it is now thought that Timimus was not an ornithomimid; rather, it has been tentatively allied with the tyrannosauroids, the group which includes Tyrannosaurus and its cousins, or identified as a more primitive type of coelurosaur. 

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Scientific name: Ornithopod dinosaur
Age: 95-93 million years ago
Size: 45 centimetres-4.5 metres long
Location: Lark Quarry, central Queensland

Wintonopus latomorum is an ichnospecies, which is a name for the ornithopod-like footprints preserved at the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument, Lark Quarry Conservation Park. The actual species name is therefore unknown, but the footprints are referred to small to medium-sized ornithopods (plant-eating dinosaurs). Weewarrasaurus, a small, herbivorous dinosaur that probably travelled in family groups or herds for protection. This small dinosaur was described from two jaw fragments and through comparison with other, similar species. 

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