More than 60 dinosaur footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years | Dinosaurs

At a corner of the main office of the Biluela High School, a modest white board, covered with the feet of draining dinosaurs, sits.

The new analysis indicates a rock, hidden in sight Queensland The school has more than 20 years, one of the highest concentrations of dinosaurs documented in Australia.

The slab contains 66 fossilized monuments of 47 individual dinosaurs – dating back to early Jurassic About 200 meters ago – on the surface, the research led by Dr. Anthony Romelio of Dinosaur Laboratory at the University of Queensland.

The effects of the three feet were manufactured Anomoepus scambusSmall dinosaur eating the plant that moves on the legs. The structural excavations that were found outside indicate that the species had long legs, short arms, and chunky body.

Romelio described the rock as important given the lack of structural remains of the dinosaur since that time it has been found in Australia. “We do not have their bones, but we know they were in the neighborhood,” he said.

The traces of the engraved feet exist around Bilulla, politics, Carnarvon Gorge and Mount Morgan have indicated an abundance Anomoepus The numbers in the center of Queensland, Romelio said. “In that early Jurassic period, it appears everywhere.”

The slab, which is less than a square meter in the region, contains 13 distinct corridors that constitute nearly half of the 66 feet.

Romelio said it is possible that the publications have been made for days or weeks in the clay covered with shallow water, as the animals are likely to walk along or cross a waterway. “The river type will bid farewell to the sediments.”

Boulder was discovered in Callide Mine in 2002 and was given to Bilolaa State High by a geology, Weiss Nichols, whose wife was a teacher there at that time.

Its importance was overlooked for decades until community members contacted Romelio after seeing his work on the nearby Mount Morgan Mountain.

Also, no other documented fossils in the same study were noticed without anyone noticing them until Romelio agreed to it in the communication mine, as it was used as carrying the entry of the car park.

Romelio said, “It has fallen,” describing the rock that contains the traces of dinosaur as “great joy.”

To better see the fossil feet, Romilio merged photographs of each rock in a 3D model, adjusting the contrast and lighting to make its lines more clear.

Given the importance of the discovery and the expected public interest, the school rock will be displayed in the Banana Council office.

Banana mayor, Nif Ferrier, said the discovery was a reminder of the richness of the local scene.

“This is huge – not only for Ballalla but for the whole country,” he said. “Whoever thought that a simple rock sitting in the lobby of the school for years may be one of the most important discoveries of my fossils in Australia? He only goes to show that our region is full of surprises.”

Although not Anomoepus Bones have been found in Australia so far, Romilio hopes that public proposition will lead to future discoveries.

“For the vast majority of excavations in Australia, most of them are not found … by sales scientists – he is other people who raise their hands and ask: Is this important or not?

“Perhaps this will be another start for another adventure.”

The research was published in the magazine Historical biology.