Professor Bruce Runnegar with the fossil. Courtesy of the University of QueenslandWhen a Brisbane teenager went fossicking for plant fossils in a quarry in 1958, he had no way of knowing the rock he picked up would help rewrite Australia’s dinosaur history nearly 70 years later.The sandstone, marked by an 18.5 centimetre fossilised footprint, is now confirmed as Australia’s oldest known dinosaur fossil, dating back 230 million years to the earliest part of the Late Triassic period.
230 Million Year Old Footprint Rewrites Dinosaur History in Australia
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