Intact fossil of a 100-million-year-old plesiosaur elasmosaur found on Queensland property
She’s the Queensland outback property owner with a penchant for amateur palaeontology. But now Cassandra Prince, from the McKinlay area about 200km east of Mount Isa, has made a discovery that’s being compared to the archaeology’s famous Rosetta Stone. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How a Queensland property owner discovered of 100-million-year-old creature Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Prince, along with two other like-minded friends who form an amateur palaeontology posse self-titled the “Rock Chicks”, discovered the remains of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile on her sprawling remote station. The discovery of the complete skeleton of an ancient plesiosaur, or extinct marine reptile, is an Australian first. A team of museum palaeontologists travelled to the remote site to collect the fossil of the elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The elasmosaur lived in the Eromanga Sea, which covered large parts of inland Au...