Lungfish Invertebrates Ichnofossils In 1964,
dinosaur footprints were discovered from the Rhondda colliery (underground coal mine) 230 metres below ground along the sandstone ceiling of the Striped Bacon coal seam. These were initially described as
Eubrontes, a type of predatory dinosaur (
theropod) footprint. Later, these footprints were considered as evidence for the world's largest Triassic theropod, with legs towering over 2 metres tall. A 3D evaluation of the fossil indicated the footprint length was much smaller than previously reported (34 cm rather than 46 cm long) and its shape was characteristic of the
trace fossil genus (
ichnogenus)
Evazoum. The existing hypothesis is that
Evazoum were made by
prosauropods, ancestral forms of long-necked
sauropod dinosaurs. The bipedal dinosaur track-maker may have resembled the dinosaur
Plateosaurus, and this fossil is the only evidence of this group of dinosaurs in Australia. The next evidence for
sauropodomorphs in Australia comes over 50 million years later in the Jurassic. == See also ==