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Kronosaurus Korner, Richmond, Qld

In almost every state of Australia, you will find a town (or suburb) named Richmond. Richmond, Queensland is probably the smallest of them, a tidy town of 800 citizens, on the Flinders Highway. What makes it special is its paleontologic museum, the "Kronosaurus Korner". The plains around Richmond were covered by a shallow sea during the Cretaceous, and many excellently preserved maritime dinosaur skelotons have been found and are now displayed in the museum, like the plesiosaurus (more exactly Woolungasaurus Glendowerensis) above.

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