Tag Archive for 'Wonthaggi Formation'

Melissa Lowery and Anthony Martin examine a dinosaur track. Image credit: Ruth Schowalter.

120-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Polar Dinosaurs Discovered in Australia

Sep 10, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered footprints of theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs date back to the Early Cretaceous epoch, over 120 million years ago, when Australia...

The bird footprints found in the Wonthaggi Formation in Victoria, Australia. Image credit: Martin et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293308.

Paleontologists Discover Earliest Known Gondwanan Bird Footprints

Nov 15, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered 27 bird footprints and other traces — dated to between 120 and 128 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch) —...

Kotevski et al. report the first evidence of non-mandibular skull material of a non-avian theropod from Australia: a left frontal and fused parietal fragment from the Lower Cretaceous upper Strzelecki Group of Victoria. Image credit: Kotevski et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105769.

Paleontologists Find Fossil of Early Megaraptorid Dinosaur in Australia

Nov 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed a well-preserved, almost complete left frontal (part of the skull roof) of a previously unknown species of megaraptorid...