COOPER

Australia’s Largest Dinosaur

Based on skeletal remains found so far, ‘Cooper’ is Australia’s largest dinosaur. Named after Cooper Creek and the Cooper Basin where this dinosaur was discovered. Cooper is currently being discribed as a candidate for a new genus and species of dinosaur and is one of the largest animals to have walked the earth.

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Profile of Cooper

Location: West of Eromanga, South-west Queensland, Australia.

Age: Approximately 95-98 million years ago: Cenomanian Epoch , mid-Cretaceous Period.

Size: Based on the prepared remains of Cooper, it’s believed he would have been 30 metres long and 6.5 metres high (ground to hip)

Type: Large-sized plant-eating (herbivorous) sauropod dinosaur.

Formation: Winton Formation, Eromanga Basin.

Classification: Cooper is currently under description and is a candidate for a new genus and species of Titanisaur

Interesting facts about Cooper

  • Largest skeletal remains of a dinosaur ever to be discovered in Australia and is many meters longer than any other

  • Cooper is in the top ten of the largest dinosaurs in the world

  • Cooper represents a new dinosaur species to the world

  • Cooper was found on a tributary of the famous inland river system, Cooper Creek in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin and this is where the nickname came from

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Team prepping Cooper's Femur.