Two storeys tall at the hip and as long as a basketball court, Australotitan cooperensis is the largest dinosaur ever found in Australia and among the largest in the world.
The Eromanga Natural History Museum has set up a special wing just to showcase the find.Palaeontologists have uncovered the largest dinosaur found in Australia, a long-necked colossus that gives other huge dinosaurs from around the world a run in the heavyweight stakes.in a new scientific paper, grew up to 30 metres long and up to six metres high at the hip, making it as long as a basketball court and two storeys tall.
Determining the weight of the species was difficult and methods differed, however Dr Hocknull said they were confident of a weight range between 50 tonnes and 70 tonnes, which would easily put it among the heaviest sauropods. In the nearly 14 years since, researchers from both the Queensland Museum and the Eromanga Natural History Museum have partnered with specialists to study the fossils, reconstruct the skeleton and compare the bones to others found in Australia and elsewhere.Credit:Dr Hocknull said they used state-of the art 3D modelling techniques to compare the bones, which due to their size and the fossilisation process turning them to stone meant they each weighed several hundred kilograms.
Eromanga Natural History Museum general manager Robyn Mackenzie said the publication of the official name and details ofmeant Eromanga could now join Winton, also in western Queensland, as a centre for dinosaur fossil exploration.
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