Fossilised jawbones found in rocks along Victoria's Gippsland coast have been identified as belonging to a new species of plant-eating dinosaur — the first of its kind in this area for 20 years.
Supplied: James KuetherFossilised jawbones found in rocks along Victoria's Gippsland coast have been identified as belonging to a new species of plant-eating dinosaur the size of a wallaby that would have roamed the land between Australia and Antarctica.
Millions of years ago, this area was a lushly forested rift valley with a 4,000-km chain of volcanoes to the east, said palaeontologist Matthew Herne of the University of New England. Dr Herne and colleagues have spent the past 10 years carefully analysing fossils collected from the Flat Rocks area near Inverloch by other palaeontologists and volunteers from the
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