“The footprints are from 47 individual dinosaurs which passed across a patch of wet, white clay, possibly walking along or crossing a waterway,” Romilio said.
He further added: “It’s an unprecedented snapshot of dinosaur abundance, movement and behaviour from a time when no fossilised dinosaur bones have been found in Australia.”
Small-plant eating dinosaurs
The fossilized footprints display each distinctly three toes left by 47 individual dinosaurs. These weren’t giants but small plant-eaters.
No Early Jurassic dinosaur skeletons have ever been discovered in Australia.
Therefore, they’ve identified the footprints as belonging to Anomoepus scambus, an “ichnospecies” (a species defined by trace fossils like footprints).
Evidence suggests these creatures possessed legs ranging from a mere 15 to 50 centimeters in length.