Australian Age of Dinosaurs

rdf:langString Australian Age of Dinosaurs

rdf:langString Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum

rdf:langString Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum

rdf:langString AAOD Reception Centre with bronze Australovenator wintonensis

rdf:langString David Elliott , Ian Merritt , Bruce Collins, Bill Wavish, Robert Elliott, Carol Trewick

rdf:langString Lot 1, Dinosaur Drive, Winton, Queensland

rdf:langString Location in Queensland

rdf:langString Queensland

rdf:langString Australian Age of Dinosaurs Ltd (AAOD) is a not for profit organisation located in Winton, Queensland and founded by David Elliott and Judy Elliott in 2002. The organisation's activities include operation of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History (the Museum) which holds annual dinosaur digs in the Winton Formation of western Queensland and oversees the year-round operation of Australia's most productive dinosaur fossil preparation laboratory. Since 2005, the AAOD Museum has accumulated the largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils in the world and holds the holotype specimens of Diamantinasaurus matildae ("Matilda"), Savannasaurus elliottorum ("Wade"), Australovenator wintonensis ("Banjo"), Australia's most complete theropod skeleton, Ferrodraco lentoni, the first pterosaur to be named from the Winton Formation and Confractosuchus sauroktonos. The museum is open to the public daily from April to October and open six days (closed Sundays) from November to March. The site of the museum was designated a dark-sky preserve, the first International Dark-Sky Sanctuary in Australia, in 2019.

rdf:langString Cretaceous Period

rdf:langString Australovenator wintonensis "Banjo"; Diamantinasaurus matildae "Matilda" and "Alex"; Wintonotitan wattsi "Clancy"; Savannasaurus elliotorum "Wade"; Ferrodraco lentoni "Butch"; the Snake Creek tracksite; Confractosuchus sauroktonos "Chookie"