New look at an old dinosaur: the rediscovery of the lost Austrosaurus site
July 27, 2017 by Lea Kivivali
The discovery of new bones belonging to a long-necked sauropod named Austrosaurus mckillopi has been announced by a team of Australian and British palaeontologists.
The bones date from the Early Cretaceous period (104-102 million years ago) and were first discovered in 1932 on Clutha sheep station, northwest of Richmond, Queensland.
However, attempts by palaeontologists to relocate the site during the 1970s and 1990s failed.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-07-dinosaur-rediscovery-lost-austrosaurus-site.html#jCp
