List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs
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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
or Antarctica.


Criteria for inclusion

*The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera. *At least one named species of the creature must have been found in
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
or Antarctica. *This list is a complement to :Dinosaurs of Australia and :Dinosaurs of Antarctica.


List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs


Valid genera


Invalid and potentially valid genera

* '' Agrosaurus macgillivrayi'': Although originally reported as being from Australia, it may actually be from Europe, possibly being synonymous with '' Thecodontosaurus''. * "
Allosaurus robustus This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ...
": Originally described as a new species of '' Allosaurus'', but may actually represent a megaraptoran or abelisauroid. * "
Biscoveosaurus This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ...
": Said to be a large ornithopod contemporary with '' Morrosaurus''. * '' Walgettosuchus woodwardi'': It has been considered synonymous with '' Rapator'', but too little is known of both genera to be certain.


Timeline

This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in Ma, megaannum, along the x-axis. ImageSize = width:800px height:auto barincrement:15px PlotArea = left:10px bottom:50px top:10px right:10px Period = from:-250 till:-25 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:25 start:-250 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:5 start:-250 TimeAxis = orientation:hor AlignBars = justify Colors = #legends id:CAR value:claret id:HER value:teal id:OMN value:blue id:black value:black id:white value:white id:cretaceous value:rgb(0.3,0.75,0.1) id:jurassic value:rgb(0.3,0.75,0.4) id:triassic value:rgb(0.3,0.75,0.7) id:mesozoic value:rgb(0.3,0.6,0.4) BarData= bar:eratop bar:space bar:periodtop bar:space bar:NAM1 bar:NAM2 bar:NAM3 bar:NAM4 bar:NAM5 bar:NAM6 bar:NAM7 bar:NAM8 bar:NAM9 bar:NAM10 bar:NAM11 bar:NAM12 bar:NAM13 bar:NAM14 bar:NAM15 bar:NAM16 bar:NAM17 bar:NAM18 bar:NAM19 bar:space bar:period bar:space bar:era PlotData= align:center textcolor:black fontsize:M mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(7,-4) bar:periodtop from: -145 till: -65 color:cretaceous text: Cretaceous from: -200 till: -145 color:jurassic text: Jurassic from: -250 till: -200 color:triassic text: Triassic bar:eratop from: -250 till: -65 color:mesozoic text: Mesozoic PlotData= align:left fontsize:M mark:(line,white) width:5 anchor:till align:left color:HER bar:NAM1 from:-74 till:-70 text:
Antarctopelta ''Antarctopelta'' ( ; meaning 'Antarctic shield') was a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur with one known species, ''A. oliveroi'', which lived in Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous Period. It was a medium-sized ankylosaur, reaching 4 meters (13& ...
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Diamantinasaurus ''Diamantinasaurus'' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from Australia that lived during the early Late Cretaceous, about 94 million years ago. The type species of the genus is ''D. matildae'', first described and named in 2009 in paleontology, ...
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Diluvicursor ''Diluvicursor'' ("flood runner") is a genus of small ornithischian from the Lower Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Australia. It is known from one species, the type species ''D. pickeringi''. The two known specimens, a vertebra and a partial juveni ...
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Glacialisaurus ''Glacialisaurus'' is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic period around 186 to 182 million years ago in what is now the central region of the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. I ...
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Kakuru ''Kakuru'' is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. The only described species, ''Kakuru kujani'', is known primarily from evidence of a single tibia, which had been fossilised through a rare process in which the bone t ...
color:HER bar:NAM9 from:-118 till:-110 text: Leaellynasaura color:HER bar:NAM10 from:-119 till:-113 text:
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color:HER bar:NAM11 from:-112 till:-99 text: Muttaburrasaurus color:CAR bar:NAM12 from:-170 till:-168 text: Ozraptor color:HER bar:NAM13 from:-117 till:-113 text:
Qantassaurus ''Qantassaurus'' ( ) is a genus of basal two-legged, plant-eating elasmarian ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia about 125-112 million years ago, when the continent was still partly south of the Antarctic Circle. It was described b ...
color:CAR bar:NAM14 from:-110 till:-105 text: Rapator color:HER bar:NAM15 from:-171 till:-167 text: Rhoetosaurus color:OMN bar:NAM16 from:-108 till:-104 text: Timimus color:HER bar:NAM17 from:-80 till:-66 text:
Trinisaura ''Trinisaura'' is an extinct genus of ornithopod dinosaur known from the lower levels of the Late Cretaceous Snow Hill Island Formation (early Maastrichtian stage) of James Ross Island, Antarctica. It contains a single species, ''Trinisaura sant ...
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Weewarrasaurus ''Weewarrasaurus'' is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Griman Creek Formation near Lightning Ridge, in New South Wales, Australia. The type and only species is ''W. pobeni'', known from the holotype, an isolated pr ...
color:HER bar:NAM19 from:-106 till:-98 text: Wintonotitan PlotData= align:center textcolor:black fontsize:M mark:(line,black) width:25 bar:period from: -145 till: -65 color:cretaceous text: Cretaceous from: -200 till: -145 color:jurassic text: Jurassic from: -250 till: -200 color:triassic text: Triassic bar:era from: -250 till: -65 color:mesozoic text: Mesozoic


See also

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List of birds of Australia This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory. The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Co ...
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List of birds of Antarctica This is a list of the bird species recorded in Antarctica. The avifauna of Antarctica include a total of 62 species, of which 1 is Endemism in birds, endemic. This list's Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of order ...


References

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