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1989. Eumeralla Formation ( Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian ) Australia. Only known from remains of jaws and teeth. Australotitan. 2021. Winton Formation ( Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian to Turonian ) Australia. The largest dinosaur known from Australia, comparable in size to large South American dinosaurs.
Cassowary. Cassowaries ( Tok Pisin: muruk, Indonesian: kasuari, Biak: man suar 'bird strong', [ 4][ 5] Papuan: [citation needed] kasu weri 'horned head'[ 6] ) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bones.
In 1931, the Museum of Comparative Zoology sent an expedition to Australia with the dual aim of obtaining specimens of both living and extinct animals, [16] and in particular marsupial mammals. [21] This decision came from the fact that the museum had relatively few Australian animals and therefore wanted to collect more.
This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended from 72.1 to 66 million years before present. This was the last time period in which non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs existed.
The prominence of the eye, a feature rarely shown in other animal images of the region, raises the possibility that the creature may have been a nocturnal hunter. [44] In 2009, a second image was found that depicts a Thylacoleo interacting with a hunter who is in the act of spearing or fending the animal off with a multiple-barbed spear.
Minmi was a small herbivorous quadrupedal armoured ankylosaurian. In 2016, Gregory S. Paul estimated its length at 3 metres (9.8 ft), its weight at 300 kilograms (660 lb). [ 5] For an ankylosaurian, Minmi had long limbs, perhaps used to quickly search cover under brushes when threatened by large predators which might have been able to flip the ...
Iguanodon (/ ɪ ˈ ɡ w ɑː n ə d ɒ n / i-GWAH-nə-don; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur.While many species found worldwide have been classified in the genus Iguanodon, dating from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, taxonomic revision in the early 21st century has defined Iguanodon to be based on one well-substantiated species: I ...
Dromaeosauridae ( / ˌdrɒmi.əˈsɔːrɪdiː /) is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs. They were generally small to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek δρομαῖος ( dromaîos ), meaning 'running at full speed ...