The species was identified from fossilized jaws dating back 125 million years.
A wallaby-sized dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago in an ancient, long-lost rift valley has been discovered in Australia. The species, which has been named Galleonosaurus dorisae, was identified from five ancient jaw bones found in rocks unearthed at the Wonthaggi Formation of the Gippsland Basin—a geological region dating to the Cretaceous period
"This land has now vanished, but as 'time-travellers' we get snapshots of this remarkable world via the rocks and fossils exposed along the coast of Victoria,” Matthew Herne, from the University of New England, Australia, said in a statement. "Eventually, the sea encroached on the rift valley as Australia and Antarctica spread further apart. About 45 million years ago the land of the rift was completely severed by what would become the Southern Ocean."Herne, together with colleagues, discovered the new dinosaur in 125-million-year-old rocks from southeastern Australia. They found jawbones of young-to-mature individuals belonging to a species not previously recognized.
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