>>Fossilised 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.

Galleonosaurus dorisae is just the second dinosaur of its type to be identified from the 125-million-year-old rock platforms south-east of Melbourne — and the fifth from along the Victorian coastline.<<

>>The newly described dinosaur is also around 12 million years older than fossils of another small herbivore Diluvicursor pickeringi, which was found in the 113-million-year-old rocks along the coast of the Otway region to the south-west of Melbourne.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984

PermeateFree said:

>>Fossilised 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.

Galleonosaurus dorisae is just the second dinosaur of its type to be identified from the 125-million-year-old rock platforms south-east of Melbourne — and the fifth from along the Victorian coastline.<<

>>The newly described dinosaur is also around 12 million years older than fossils of another small herbivore Diluvicursor pickeringi, which was found in the 113-million-year-old rocks along the coast of the Otway region to the south-west of Melbourne.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984

Thanks for this.

> rift valley

Didn’t know that. That seems impossible. Have to check it up.

> Analysis of the fossils, published in the Journal of Palaeontology, indicate Galleonosaurus belonged to a large group of herbivores known as ornithischian — or bird-hipped — dinosaurs.

Whoa! Picture at top of page is of a therapod dinosaur. Wrong image? Or am i wrong? I must be wrong.

I like the following image. I’ve never seen how New Zealand was connected to Australia at this time. No, that’s right, adjacent to Antarctica.

Early Cretaceous. 125 million years ago. Aptian or barremian perhaps.

PermeateFree said:

>>Fossilised 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.

Galleonosaurus dorisae is just the second dinosaur of its type to be identified from the 125-million-year-old rock platforms south-east of Melbourne — and the fifth from along the Victorian coastline.<<

>>The newly described dinosaur is also around 12 million years older than fossils of another small herbivore Diluvicursor pickeringi, which was found in the 113-million-year-old rocks along the coast of the Otway region to the south-west of Melbourne.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984

Nice

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Fossilised 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.

Galleonosaurus dorisae is just the second dinosaur of its type to be identified from the 125-million-year-old rock platforms south-east of Melbourne — and the fifth from along the Victorian coastline.<<

>>The newly described dinosaur is also around 12 million years older than fossils of another small herbivore Diluvicursor pickeringi, which was found in the 113-million-year-old rocks along the coast of the Otway region to the south-west of Melbourne.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984

Thanks for this.

> rift valley

Didn’t know that. That seems impossible. Have to check it up.

> Analysis of the fossils, published in the Journal of Palaeontology, indicate Galleonosaurus belonged to a large group of herbivores known as ornithischian — or bird-hipped — dinosaurs.

Whoa! Picture at top of page is of a therapod dinosaur. Wrong image? Or am i wrong? I must be wrong.

Early Cretaceous. 125 million years ago. Aptian or barremian perhaps.

>>Analysis of the fossils, published in the Journal of Palaeontology, indicate Galleonosaurus belonged to a large group of herbivores known as ornithischian — or bird-hipped — dinosaurs.

As the name suggests, these dinosaurs have hips that resemble modern birds, although the two groups are not directly related.

“We know it would have been a two-legged, quite agile plant-eating dinosaur,” Dr Herne said.<<

PermeateFree said:

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Fossilised 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.

Galleonosaurus dorisae is just the second dinosaur of its type to be identified from the 125-million-year-old rock platforms south-east of Melbourne — and the fifth from along the Victorian coastline.<<

>>The newly described dinosaur is also around 12 million years older than fossils of another small herbivore Diluvicursor pickeringi, which was found in the 113-million-year-old rocks along the coast of the Otway region to the south-west of Melbourne.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984

Thanks for this.

> rift valley

Didn’t know that. That seems impossible. Have to check it up.

> Analysis of the fossils, published in the Journal of Palaeontology, indicate Galleonosaurus belonged to a large group of herbivores known as ornithischian — or bird-hipped — dinosaurs.

Whoa! Picture at top of page is of a therapod dinosaur. Wrong image? Or am i wrong? I must be wrong.

Early Cretaceous. 125 million years ago. Aptian or barremian perhaps.

>>Analysis of the fossils, published in the Journal of Palaeontology, indicate Galleonosaurus belonged to a large group of herbivores known as ornithischian — or bird-hipped — dinosaurs.

As the name suggests, these dinosaurs have hips that resemble modern birds, although the two groups are not directly related.

“We know it would have been a two-legged, quite agile plant-eating dinosaur,” Dr Herne said.<<

So, related the the hadrosaurs? They are the only agile two-legged plant-eating ornithiscian dinosaurs i know from the Cretaceous. And many of them also spent a lot of time on four legs.

OK, i think i have it.

“Qantassaurus intrepidus — the only other small plant-eating dinosaur of this type from the Gippsland region “
“Qantassaurus was recently recovered as a basal iguanodont, and more specifically as a member of the iguanodontian clade Elasmaria”
“phylogenetic studies show that the traditional “iguanodontids” are a paraphyletic grade leading up to the hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs)”

I think that means that Galleonosaurus dorisae is a … no, i’m not sure.

mollwollfumble said:

I think that means that Galleonosaurus dorisae is a … no, i’m not sure.

Anyway, it is a new one.