Diluvicursor an Australian Dinosaur

Diluvicursor

In keeping with our upcoming tripo to Australia, I am drawing living and exticnt animals from that southern continent.  This is an ostrich-like dinosaur called Diluvicursor.  It lived in Australia in the Cretaceous Period.  It was a herbivore so it ate plants.  It is quite possible that it had feathers on at least part of its body to keep warm.   Australia was a wet climate in the Mid-Cretaceous.  It was kind of a wet area. . . where Diluvicursor lived anyway.  

Although I did not draw it, the vertebrae of a Spinosaur was found in the same area as Diluvicursor.  Spinosaurs ate fish from rivers.  So it is thought that Diluvicursor lived in a flood plain area with lots of rivers, pond, etc.   The name of the dinosar I posted above with the picture is from the Latin "Diluvi" which means "flood". . . and "cursor" which means "runner". . . So Diluvicursor ran from the floods.  Diluvi also means deluge or very hard rain.  

Diluvicursor was not a huge dinosaur but it was not tiny either.  It is thought to have been about 7 1/2 feet longa or 2.3 meters long.  It probably was around 4-5 feet tall.  That would be around 1.2 to 1.5 meters long.  

The continent of Australia and the continent of Antarctica were connected back in the Mid-Cretaceous Period and the landscape was dominated by cycads, ferns and conifers.  Technically cycads ARE conifers, but they LOOK like palm trees.  But cycads make seeds in cones.  .   . like pretty much all conifers do.  

NOTE:  The printable verion of the dinosaur drawings are found under the "Paleontology" button up top.   New drawings are at the bottom of the page.  The drawing can also be found under the  "All Printables" button.  Again, scroll down to the bottom of the page for new drawings.  

I decided to add some older drawings of Spinosaurs . . . since at least one species of them lived with Diluvicursor.   These drawings are older so they are not at the bottom of the lists of printables. . . they are further up the lists.  

Spinosaurus hunting with Young

Baryonyx fishing at a River