ABC News is reporting that the Queensland Museum has confirmed that dinosaur bones unearthed in 2006 near outback Eromanga belonged
to the largest species of dinosaur known to have existed in Australia.
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Robyn Mackenzie and her husband Stuart were mustering cattle on their property near Eromanga in south-west Queensland when they discovered dinosaur bones in 2006.
Now, after 15 years of painstaking excavation, the Eromanga Natural History Museum has officially identified the skeleton as the largest dinosaur ever found in Australia.
Ms Mackenzie, a palaeontologist who runs the Eromanga museum, said those first pieces of bone offered them no sense of the size of the dinosaur they would eventually unearth.
"It wouldn't have entered our mind that we were about to deal with an animal that was the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world," she said.
The dinosaur has been scientifically named 'Australotitan cooperensis'.
The Mackenzies nicknamed the skeleton Cooper because they found it near Cooper Creek.
Cooper is estimated to have been between 5 and 6.5 metres tall and 25 to 30 metres in length.
Palaeontologists from the Queensland Museum and Eromanga Natural History Museum said the new species of giant sauropod is thought to be in the top 15 of the largest dinosaurs in the world, entering an elite group of titanosaurs previously only discovered in South America.
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Story here :-
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-...back/100196458
Paper "A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia" by Hocknull et. al. PeerJ :-
https://peerj.com/articles/11317/