'It's the most significant prehistoric discovery to have been recently made in Australia.'
Queensland Museum's research team made a significant discovery on prehistory a couple of months ago by finding a 100 million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with its body and a head together. Now, researchers are putting a spotlight on the future of prehistoric studies., three amateur fossil hunters discovered the remains of a 19-foot tall juvenile long-necked plesiosaur, commonly known as an elasmosaur, in August on a cattle station in the western Queensland outback.
When an elasmosaur died, its rotting body would expand with gas and rise to the water's surface. Additionally, the head would frequently break off when predators scavenged the cadaver, making full-body discoveries uncommon, as per. It's also said that the most recent discovery, a young specimen, will clarify how the body structure of plesiosaurs altered from youth to adulthood.
Plesiosaurs belonging to the genus Elasmosaurus lived around 80.5 million years ago, during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. U.S. paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope received the first specimen when it was found in 1867 close to Fort Wallace in Kansas and gave it the name E. platyurus in 1868. The particular name means "flat-tailed," while the generic name means "thin-plate reptile.
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