Labels:text | font | screenshot | paper | document OCR: Harry Seeley (1839-1909), a leading British fossil scientist, named Australia's first dinosaur in 1891 when he came across pieces of bones of Agrosaurus found earlier in Queensland. The next important find occurred in 1924 when English-born Heber Longman, director of Queensland Museum, was sent some fossilized dinosaur remains from Jurassic Period (208-144 MYA) beds near Roma, Queensland. Longman named his dinosaur Rhoctosaurus brownei in 1925. MUTTABURRASAURUS Fossilized bones found in the cattle-grazing area of Muttaburra, also in Queensland, were handed over to Alan Bartholomai of the Queensland Museum in 1963. He heard that more bones had been picked up by local souvenir hunters and made an appeal for them. Most of the bones were sent to him and, in 1981, Bartholomai and his colleague, Ralph Molnar, were able to assemble and name Muttaburrasaurus. This was Australia's most complete dinosaur to date. The skeleton is now on display in the Queensland Museum. MINMI Armored dinosaurs lived in Australia, where in 1964 the first ankylosaur (member of a group of armored dinosaurs) fossils were discovered at Minmi Crossing in South Queensland. Only a few bones and pieces of armor plating of Minmi were recovered from this site, but later a more complete skeleton was found and has been studied. DINOSAUR COVE Tim Flannery of Monash University, Melbourne, identified a number of fossil-rich sites in Victoria in the late 1970s. These include Dinosaur Cove in the Otway National Park. Many fossils have been excavated from Dinosaur Cove, including remains from some relative of as Allosaurus. New dinosaur discoveries include Atlascopcosaurus and Leaellynasaura. The Leaellynasaura skeleton was a young one, and the skull indicated that the dinosaur's eyes had been very large. Some scientists believe that the development of larger eyes may have been an adaptation to the darkness of the southern Australian coast, which was still part of polar Antarctica during the Cretaceous Period (144-65 MYA).
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