Dinosaur Cove | |
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Location in Victoria | |
Location | The Otways, Victoria |
Coordinates | 38°46′48″S 143°24′18″E / 38.78000°S 143.40500°E[1] |
Type | Bay |
Basin countries | Australia |
The Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia is a fossil-bearing site in the south-east of the continent where the Otway Ranges meet the sea to the west of Cape Otway, adjacent to Great Otway National Park (map).[2] The inaccessible ocean-front cliffs include fossil-bearing strata of the Eumeralla Formation that date back to about 106 million years ago and has provided discoveries important in the research of the natural history of dinosaurs in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere as a whole.