Read the power point about Australian dinosaurs. Add a comment telling us what you have learnt or what you are wondering about dinosaurs. If you have time, tell us what you would call a dinosaur if you found dinosaur bones!

1. Australian
Dinosaurs

2. Introduction
• Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived
long ago.
• They were a group of reptiles that
could walk on land.
• Just like elephants and ostriches,
dinosaurs walked upright.
• Their name means “terrible
lizards.”

3. Palaeontologist
• Many dinosaur bones have been
found by farmers and rock
collectors.
• They get the help of an expert
to dig them up.
• These experts are called
Palaeontologists.
Did you know that
they have found
dinosaur bones in
Australia?

4. • In 1963 a farmer who
lived near the town called
Muttaburra in Queensland
found some weird looking
bones.
• The bones had been
scattered around the
paddocks by cows!
Muttaburrasaurus
This is Doug
Langdon who found
the
Muttaburrasaurus
bones.

5. • The Muttaburrasuarus belonged to a
group of dinosaurs called ornithopods.
• They were plant eaters who walked
around on their back legs.
• They lived 100 million years ago.

6. Elliott
• In 1999 a farmer on a sheep station in
Queensland discovered a dinosaur
thigh bone.
• These bones came from the biggest
dinosaur ever found in Australia.
The yellow part on
the picture shows
what part of the
thigh bone Dave
Elliott found.

7. • The dinosaur was a huge
sauropod.
• It was a gigantic long necked, long
tailed, plant eater.
• They named the dinosaur Elliott
after the farmer called Dave
Elliott who found the bones.
Winton

8. Watch Out!
There are probably millions of
dinosaur bones and footprints
around Australia waiting to be
discovered. Next time you are out
bushwalking, keep your eyes open!
You might get to share your name
with a dinosaur!