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The rock went largely unnoticed for 20 years until the school, in Queensland's rural Banana shire, asked paleontologist Anthony Romilio to examine a cluster of three-toed track marks.
It showed"one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints" ever documented in Australia, he said. Coal miners dug up the slab in 2002 and, noticing the unusual footprints, gifted it to a school in the small town of Biloela, where it was eventually displayed in the foyer. "Fossilised footprints, even though they are the most abundant of dinosaur fossils, tend to be cast aside by a lot of researchers."The vast majority of dinosaur fossils, they're not found by paleontologists. They're actually found by people on the ground."
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