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Down Under in the Cretaceous

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300 Million years ago the land masses on earth had solidified and formed a huge single super continent: Pangaea.

200 Million years ago this super continent started to break up into Laurasia in the northern hemisphere and Gondwana in the south. 

100 Million years ago in what is called 'The Cretaceous'  Gondwana was breaking up and the continent which was to become Australia started its journey into isolation from all other continents on Earth.

The Cretaceous was a time with a warm and moist climate in Australia and with extensive rainforests. Large parts of Australia were flooded and a shallow sea called Sea of Eromanga, covered much of today's Outback. It was the time of the last huge plant eating dinosaurs, of strange and dangerous creatures in the ocean, of flying reptiles as big as elephants and... 

it was the time when Muttaburrasaurus hatched:

Enter our world:
 More Australian Dinosaurs and Reptiles

Neoceratopian: 
a dinosaur with a strange looking face

Leaellynasaura amicagraphica: 
the gazelles of the dinosaur world

Nanantius eos: 
it almost looked like a bird 

Austrosaurus mckillopi:
the big plant eating dinosaur

Minmi paravertebra: 
the dinosaur in armour

Caenagnathid: 
small but dangerous

Pteranodon sp: 
the giant flying machine

Kronosaurus queenslandicus: 
the hunter in the sea

Woolungosaurus glendowerensis:
perfectly adapted to the sea  

Muttaburrasaurus: 
the plant eating dinosaur of Central Queensland

or read more about the dinosaurs of Australia and especially Queensland


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