Newly found Aussie dinosaur confirms diversity in ancient rift valley

The discovery of a previously unknown species of small herbivorous dinosaur in the south-eastern corner of Australia confirms that life thrived in a vast rift valley that once existed between the continent and Antarctica, palaeontologists say. The dinosaur, identified from five fossilised jaw bones, would have been about the size of a wallaby, or a Labrador. The bones were unearthed from a site in the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria, and date from the Cretaceous period, which began about 145 million years ago.

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