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.jpg) AAOD Reception Centre with bronze Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo) | |
  Location in Queensland | |
| Established | 2002 |
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| Location | Lot 1, Dinosaur Drive, The Jump-Up Dark-Sky Sanctuary, Winton, Queensland |
| Coordinates | 22°28′45″S 143°10′58″E / 22.4791°S 143.1827°E |
| Type | Museum of Natural History |
| Key holdings | Australovenator wintonensis "Banjo"; Diamantinasaurus matildae "Matilda" and "Alex"; Wintonotitan wattsi "Clancy"; Savannasaurus elliotorum "Wade"; Ferrodraco lentoni "Butch"; the Snake Creek tracksite; Confractosuchus sauroktonos "Chookie" |
| Collections | Australian natural history |
| Visitors | 59,148 (2021) |
| Director | David Elliott (Executive Chairman/ Founder), Ian Merritt (Company Secretary), Bruce Collins, Bill Wavish, Robert Elliott, Thomas Brodie, Carol Trewick |
| Website | australianageofdinosaurs |
Australian Age of Dinosaurs Ltd. (AAOD) is a nonprofit organization located in Winton, Queensland, founded by David Elliott and Judy Elliott in 2002. The organization’s activities include the operation of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History, which holds annual dinosaur digs in the Winton Formation[1] of Western Queensland and oversees the year-round operation of Australia's most productive dinosaur fossil preparation laboratory. Since 2005, the AAOD Museum has accumulated the largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils in the world and holds the holotype specimens of Diamantinasaurus matildae[2] ("Named Matilda"), Savannasaurus elliottorum[3] ("Named Wade"), Australovenator wintonensis[2] ("Named Banjo"), Australia's most complete theropod skeleton, Ferrodraco lentoni,[4] the first pterosaur to be named from the Winton Formation, and Confractosuchus sauroktonos.[5] The museum is open to the public daily from April to October and is open six days a week (closed Sundays) from November to March. The site of the museum was designated a dark-sky preserve, the first International Dark-Sky Sanctuary in Australia, in 2019.
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- ^ a b Hocknull, S.A., White, M.A., Tischler, T.R., Cook, A.G., Calleja, N.D., Sloan, T., Elliott, D.A., (2009) New mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia. PLOS One 4, e6190.
- ^ Poropat, S.F.; Mannion, P.D.; Upchurch, P.; Hocknull, S.A.; Kear, B.P.; Kundrát, M.; Tischler, T.R.; Sloan, T.; Sinapius, G.H.K.; Elliott, J.A.; Elliott, D.A. (2016). "New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography". Scientific Reports. 6: 34467. doi:10.1038/srep34467
- ^ Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Tischler, T.R., Sloan T., Elliott R.A., Elliott, H.A., Elliott J.A., Elliott, D.A. (2019). "Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia". Scientific Reports. 9:13454. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49789-4
- ^ White, M.A., Bell, P.R., Campione, N.E., Sansalone G., Brougham T., Bevitt, J.J., Molnar R.E., Cook A.G., Wroe S., Elliott, D.A. (2022). "Abdominal contents reveal Cretaceous crocodyliforms ate dinosaurs". Gondwana Research. GR 2759. doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.01.016