ETRW Planning

We are busy planning for a small crew to visit Eric the Red West in late June. It will be definitely cold, probably wet, and the tides will consipre against us. Why are we going? To find out if the area that, in 2016,  produced the concetration of fossils in known as "The Block" is broad or deep, or just a small concentration. I will post photos of our attemtps.

Mike finds a fossil on his birthday

Pip congratulating Mike on his find

Tragics weekend at the Kools 6/7 April 2019

Although it has only been about 5 weeks since the end of Dinosaur Dreaming 2019, a small group of dreamers who were suffering from rock-breaking withdrawal (hence "tragic") met at Lesley Kool's house in Wonthaggi to get their fix of breaking some of the stockpile of rock from the recent dig.
The weather was perfect, the company was scintillating and we found more bones, including four ornithopod teeth! There is still plenty of rock to be processed so we are planning another tragics weekend around the end of August-beginning of September.

Small limb bone found by Nicole Evered

 
                                          Kim and Nick working hard

                                          Wendy White spotted the camera, but Mary, Wendy Turner and Mike
                                           were oblivious

                                          Ornithopod tooth finders - Wendy Turner, Nick van Klaveren
                                          and Wendy White (found 2!)

Galleonosaurus Facebook videos

Some Facebook videos about Galleonosaurus dorisae:

Lesley and former banker Gerry:
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsGippsland/posts/2292657821006135

Mike talks about a possible local museum:
https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsGippsland/posts/2648498991887510

Tim Ziegler at MV with the holotype:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=387362315420905

Galleonosaurus the journal article

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/new-smallbodied-ornithopods-dinosauria-neornithischia-from-the-early-cretaceous-wonthaggi-formation-strzelecki-group-of-the-australianantarctic-rift-system-with-revision-of-qantassaurus-intrepidus-rich-and-vickersrich-1999/D6FEF2CD3EC1CAAD8F41B6ED73EC356C

Galleonosaurus dorisae - a newly named Flat Rocks dino

Introducing Galleonosaurus dorisae, an ornithopod named by Matt Herne (et al) from a specimen found by Gerry Kool at the Flat Rocks dig in 2008!

Here are some press articles:
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-47518544/galleonosaurus-dorisae-new-dinosaur-discovered-in-australia
ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984
EurekAlert: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cup-nwd030619.php
Earth.com: https://www.earth.com/news/new-small-dinosaur-species-australia/
Cosmos Magazine: https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/newly-found-aussie-dinosaur-confirms-diversity-in-ancient-rift-valley
WRAL: https://www.wral.com/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby/18249410/
New York Times Post: https://nytimespost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
KITV: https://www.kitv.com/story/40101295/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby
The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8607350/new-species-dinosaur-small-kangaroo-discovered-australia-galleon/
CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-discovered-a-new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-in-australia/
CNN: https://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_5ea9dae39c42ac6a33ac641e6e837aca
India Times Post : https://indiatimespost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
VAAJU.com: https://vaaju.com/aus/new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-identified-from-fossils-found-along-the-victorian-coast-science-news/
Phys.org https://phys.org/news/2019-03-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-ancient-australian-antarctic-rift.html
Channel 9: https://www.9news.com.au/content/2019/03/11/17/46/victoria-news-new-dinosaur-found-galleonosaurus-wallaby
USA Today Post: https://usatodaypost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
The Cool Press: https://www.thecoolpress.com/2019/03/11/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby/
Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/64953-wallaby-size-dinosaur-discovered-australia.html
Sci News: http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/galleonosaurus-dorisae-06980.html
Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-dinosaur-species-found-australia-reveals-lost-world-180971681/
Tech Explorist: https://www.techexplorist.com/new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-found-australia/21489/
Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/science/new-tiny-dinosaur-discovered-in-australia
Newsweek : https://www.newsweek.com/galleonosaurus-dorisae-new-dinosaur-australia-rift-valley-1357986
Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190311081923.htm
USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/11/dinosaur-discovery-jaw-fossils-australia-wallaby-sized-herbivore/3127668002/
News.com.au: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/new-wallabysized-dinosaur-identified-from-the-ancient-australianantarctic-rift-valley/news-story/df2bf52721ffc034652c74c3f7840049


I will post the link to the journal shortly.

Jade's vlog

In week one of the dig this year, Jade made a video record of her time as a volunteer.
Check it out on YouTube: Jade's vlog