Galleonosaurus and Aussiedraco coloring page Both ancient animals from Australia

Galleonosaurus and Aussiedraco

Galleonosaurus was an ornithopod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period.  It lived on the supercontinent called Gondwanna in what is now Australia.  At the time the supercontinent was rifting or splitting apart.  So there was a rift valley between what is now Antarctica and Australia.  So perhaps it lived between Australia and Antarctica but also on both continents.   This dinosaur was a herbivore.  It ate plants.  It was about 6 feet or 1.8 meters long and roughly the size of a wallaby.  That would be between 9 and 12 lbs. . . or 4 to 5.4 kg.  The unusual name is because the piece of jaw that was found looked like an old galleon ship from thousands of years ago.  

The Pterosaur was also from the early Cretaceous of Australia.  It has a cool name.  It is called Aussiedraco.  It had a wingspan of 11 feet or 3.35 meters.