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Dinosaur Dreaming

Research from the Monash University Palaeontology Laboratory

Inverloch:
Home of Dinosaur Dreaming

Inverloch is the Victorian coastal town near which the Dinosaur Dreaming site is located. About 145 kilometres (ninety minutes drive) from Melbourne, Inverloch is a very civilised place from which to do field research.

Dinosaur Dreaming location map

The site is a rocky shore platform called Flat Rocks, about five minutes' drive from the township on a stretch of coast favoured by surfers and fishing enthusiasts. This is where the Cretaceous mammal, Ausktribosphenos nyktos, was found in March 1997.

In summer, it's warm and inviting; in winter, wild and dramatic. Guess when field work is done...

Dinosaur Dreaming - The Inverloch Fossil site - Information Sheet (Museum Victoria)

  
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Friends' Day
A pictorial look at what went on in 2000...

In the hole...
Up with the crows to catch the morning low tide; here's what setup was like one fine February morning in 1999...

If only we'd been there to see...
What would this part of the world have been like during the early Cretaceous?