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230-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint is Australia’s Oldest: Study

A footprint unearthed by a teenage fossil hunter at Albion in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 1958 has now been formally identified as the continent’s earliest confirmed dinosaur trace, dating back some 230 million years (Late Triassic epoch) and suggesting dinosaurs roamed what is now Brisbane far earlier than paleontologists realized.

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