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Robyn Mackenzie & Mel Wilkinson - The Eromanga Natural History Museum

How the discovery of Cretaceous dinosaurs around Eromanga (Qld) led to the establishment of a world-class museum The ENHM collection represents the most significant regional collection of fossils from central Australia, including the Australotitan cooperensis, Australia's largest dinosaur species!!! Details of Australia’s largest dinosaur, Australotitan cooperensis, have just been published. Similar to other recently discovered dinosaurs in central Queensland, the bones are hosted in sediments of the Cretaceous aged Winton Formation, the final unit deposited in the Eromanga Basin. Despite the extremely wide distribution of the Winton Formation little attention has been focussed on the unit. The Winton Formation is up to 1.2 kilometres thick, consisting largely of fine grained volcanogenic fluvial sediments that are diachronous in nature and have been extensively modified post deposition. This has resulted in a residual distribution of the Winton Formation that poses difficulties in placing the dinosaur discoveries in an any accurate chronological, biostratigraphic or local stratigraphic context.