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Lloyd Jones

Australia's oldest-known dinosaur fossil identified

A decades-old mystery has been solved after a dinosaur fossil was identified as the nation's oldest. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Australia's oldest dinosaur fossil has been identified more than 60 years after a teenager found it while fossicking in a sandstone quarry.

The 18.5cm footprint was found at Albion in Brisbane's inner south by Bruce Runnegar in 1958 while he was looking for plant fossils.

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