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Space age furniture legs4/30/2023 ![]() Tell us your location and find more local ABC News and information."I've seen one type of meat-eating dinosaur track that I've not seen in Australia before."įurther analysis would be required to determine if this was a new species or something that might resemble a dinosaur from another other part of the world, he said.īut more than one palaeontologist to have seen photos of the prints have mentioned the name of a particularly fierce predator whose fossilised bones were found in the Cape Otway region - the Australovenator. ( ABC News: George Roberts)ĭr Romilio is also quietly thrilled about the possibility held within some mystery prints that were made by an unknown carnivorous dinosaur. "Some of the small tracks would have been track-makers about the size of a chicken, whereas some would have had legs like a really tall basketballer, say 120-centimetre-long legs."Īnthony Romilio is an expert in dinosaur footprints. "We can only surmise very broadly, we can't narrow it down to particular species unless we have the dinosaur at the end of the trackway. "There seems to be some two-legged plant eaters, ornithopods such as Diluvicursor, Leaellynasaura or perhaps Atlascopcosaurus. It was too early, however, to know the details about which species might have left these historic marks beyond guesswork, he added. ![]() He said to have so many prints from a variety of species at one locality was rare and exciting in comparison to nearby sites that contained only a dozen footprints. "The tally so far has reached the 140 dinosaur footprints at their particular site," Dr Romilio said. Not only that, but there are many more footprints than first thought, and some belong to an unrecognisable dinosaur, maybe a newly discovered species. ( Supplied: Kate Wagstaff) 140 footprints and countingĭr Romilio is one of Australia's few experts in palaeoichnology - the study of dinosaur footprints - and he has enthusiastically confirmed the footprints are "absolutely" made by dinosaurs. Tim Wagstaff on location at Skenes Creek.
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