Paleontologists said the partial skeleton of Diluvicursor pickeringi, that lived about 113 million years ago, provides insight into the array of dinosaurs that inhabited Australia. Photo: ReutersWashington: In sandstone next to the high tide mark at the edge of Bass Strait in southeastern Australia, scientists have unearthed fossils of a two-legged, turkey-sized, plant-eating dinosaur apparently swept away in a large, powerful ancient river. Diluvicursor’s remains were found amongst a jumbled collection of large fossilized tree trunks also apparently swept down the river during a flood. It lived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs about 20 feet (6 meters) long, as well as armoured dinosaurs, turtles, shrew-sized mammals and flying reptiles called pterosaurs. Diluvicursor roamed a forested broad rift valley floodplain between Australia and Antarctica, which remained connected until about 45 million years ago.

Source: Mint January 12, 2018 06:33 UTC