Overview

• The 7.1 metre fossil was uncovered at Toolebuc Station in western Queensland after fossicker Cassandra Prince spotted a small surface bone in 2023.
• Prince and her family excavated the site in 2024, and landowner Sam Daniels donated the find to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum in Winton.
• Museum staff report a nearly complete skull and torso, a full vertebral column, an intact left flipper, a partial right flipper, rare hind flippers and part of the tail fin.
• Volunteers and technicians will spend thousands of hours removing rock and conserving the slabs before mounting, with preparation now underway at the museum.
• Researchers say the completeness could clarify body proportions, life-stage changes and diet, with potential stomach contents to be examined during preparation.