Blackstone Formation, Australia

Dipnoans of the Blackstone Formation
Genus	Species	State	Abundance	Notes	Images
Ceratodus	C. robustus

Insects of the Blackstone Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Mesochorista[1]	M. proavita	Ipswich			A Permochoionid
Mesodiphthera	M. grandis				Tettigarctid cicada
Tardilly	T. dunstani
	T. prosboloides
Phanerogramma	P. australis				Dermapterid earwig
Dinmopsylla	D. semota	Dinmore clay pit			Archipsyllid Permopsocid
Mesopsyche	M. triareolata	Dinmore clay pit			Mesopsychid mecopteran

In 1964, dinosaur footprints were discovered from the Rhondda colliery (underground coal mine) 230 metres below ground along the sandstone ceiling of the Striped Bacon coal seam.^[2] These were initially described as Eubrontes, a type of predatory dinosaur (theropod) footprint. Later, these footprints were considered as evidence for the world's largest Triassic theropod, with legs towering over 2 metres tall.^[3] A 3D evaluation of the fossil indicated the footprint length was much smaller than previously reported (34 cm rather than 46 cm long) and its shape was characteristic of the trace fossil genus (ichnogenus) Evazoum.^[4] The existing hypothesis is that Evazoum were made by prosauropods, ancestral forms of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs. The bipedal dinosaur track-maker may have resembled the dinosaur Plateosaurus, and this fossil is the only evidence of this group of dinosaurs in Australia. The next evidence for sauropodomorphs in Australia comes over 50 million years later in the Jurassic.

• List of fossil sites

• Staines, H. R. E.; Woods, J. T. (1964), "Recent discovery of Triassic dinosaur footprints in Queensland", The Australian Journal of Science, 27: 1–55