Queensland Museum Network palaeontologists have excavated Australia’s first head and associated body of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile in what has been described as the Rosetta Stone of marine reptile palaeontology.
The rare fossil was discovered by a Western Queensland station owner Cassandra Prince, who, alongside two friends, Sally and Cynthia, form a fossil hunting trio called the ‘Rock Chicks’.
The team of museum palaeontologists recently travelled to the remote site 500km west ofto collect the fossil of the elasmosaur, which is a plesiosaur that co-existed…
