In an undated supplied image obtained on Feb. 2, 2026, a graphic showing the size of a sauropodomorph compared to a human. AAP Image/Supplied by University of Queensland
When a Brisbane teenager went fossicking for plant fossils in a quarry in 1958, he had no way of knowing the rock he picked up would help rewrite Australia’s dinosaur history nearly 70 years later.
The sandstone, marked by an 18.5 centimetre fossilised footprint, is now confirmed as Australia’s oldest known dinosaur fossil, dating back 230 million years to the earliest part of the Late Triassic period.
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