110 Million years ago - when dinosaurs walked the earth
The Cretaceous Period (146-65 million years ago)
In the early Cretaceous, many of the southern continents were still joined together as part of the southern landmass called Gondwana. Northern continents formed the great landmass Laurasia. These two supercontinents shared many plants and animals dating from an earlier time when they were joined as one enormous landmass.
Australian fact file
Animal superstars
Visit a fossil site
- Take a visit to Lightning Ridge, a Cretaceous fossil site, and find out why the fossils recovered here are important to the unfolding story of Australia's past.
