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rath
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject: first look at world's oldest croc fossil |
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Friday, July 14, 2006.
Public to get first look at world's oldest croc fossil.
What is said to be the world's oldest known crocodile fossil will be revealed to the public today in the area where it was discovered 10 years ago.
Isisfordia Duncani, thought to be 95 to 98 million years old, made headlines around the world when it was revealed last month because crocodiles were previously thought to have originated in North America or Europe.
It will be housed in a $1.5 million outer Barcoo interpretation centre in western Queensland being opened today.
Isisford Mayor Joe Owens says the complex also aims to highlight the region's nature.
"I'd personally been asked by people in the city what was a gidgee tree ... we sort of thought, well, you can go and see museums and you've got your [Stockman's] Hall of Fame and Qantas and things like that, but nowhere was there anything for nature, and we saw a hole for that ... and then when the fossil came along that sort of pushed things along and we thought we'll incorporate the lot and we'll do it in one," he said. |
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