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The Enigmatic Dinosaur Faunas of Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

John Long
John Long*
Affiliation:
The Western Australian Museum, Francis St., Perth, Western Australia 6000
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Abstract

Australia has a scant but significant record of dinosaurs which includes a prosauropod, two or three sauropods, at least four theropods (including carnosaurs and an ornithomimosaur), four hypsilophodontids, an aberrant iguanodont, a primitive thyreophoran (possibly an ankylosaur), and a possible primitive neoceratopsian. Footprint fossils indicate higher taxonomic diversity, including small bipedal ornithopods and coelurosaurs, very large sauropods, large carnosaurs, and a stegosaur. The most diverse dinosaur assemblage, from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria, represents a polar dinosaur community that lived within the Cretaceous Antarctic Circle.

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The Dinosaur World
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 7: Dino Fest , 1994 , pp. 397 - 410
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Copyright © 1994 Paleontological Society 

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