The Wildlife of Exhibition

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This exhibition looks at the diversity of life in dynamic poses include a giant lizard Specimen list the great southern super-continent Gondwana (Megalania) chasing a giant flightless bird (older than 542 mya) from 3.8 billion years to present. (Bullockornis), and an Antarctica § Slabs of Neoproterozoic material (Cryolohophosaurus). All furniture and (metazoan body fossils and traces from The unique nature of the fauna of this protective perspex panels. Comprehensive , Namibia, England etc.) continent and the complex interplay of Education Kits for Levels Prep to Year 8 and § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation changes over geological history provides an above. Early modern life ( - Ordivician engaging context for exhibition attendees. 542-444 mya) This exhibition has been supported by Visions § Archaeocyathid colony blocks The exhibition highlights the products of of Australia, an Australian Government § Trilobite resting or feeding trace and worm research by some of the world's leading Program supporting touring exhibitions by traces palaeontologists, including staff from Monash providing funding assistance for the § Rock specimens with Agnostid trilobite University. development and touring of cultural material § Large selection of graptolites from the Cambrian and of Victoria. across Australia. Collection of material has Components Including Phyllograptus, Didymograptus 42 information panels More than 300 long been supported by the National and Tetragraptus. specimens of fossils and rocks (including Geographic Society, The International Dromornis stirtoni, Reconstruction of Central Photograph provided by the Herald Sun: Boy and Megalania, relative of the living Komodo Dragon, which had inhabited Australia until only a few 10,000’s of years ago. Geosciences Program of UNESCO and many original and cast material), both fragmentary Australian . This reconstruction depicts a and full skeletons. Art works by Peter Trusler other agencies. scene in times past, 8 million years before the Angeles County Museum (USA), Argentina, present. Then Dromornis stirtoni, the largest and others depicting the and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia Japan, Italy, the Singapore Science Centre, palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, and Art/Science Museum (Singapore the petioles and twigs growing three or four metres National Museum of Natural Sciences above the ground. (Artist Peter Trusler) (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste).

Successful Exhibitions rely on strong relationships with host venues and research organisations such as, National Geographic Society (Washington), Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), The San Juan Natural History Museum (Argentina), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National Museum (the latter 3 in Japan), The American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA).

SCI! Expo and its outreach primary education partner PrimeSCI! highly value the co- Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! examining a reconstruction of a operative input to exhibitions and education Theropod dinosaur. Photo by Steve Morton modules by community groups, government and the private sector, for example the SES SCI! Expo is the offspring of the Monash SCI! Expo (State Emergency Services), EMA Science Centre, which was launched in 1993 (Emergency Management Australia), CFA In the last 11 years as the brainchild of a research academic and (Country Fire Authority), , and the Vice Chancellor of Monash University. It • Over 5+ million people have attended an GlaxoSmithKlein and others. filled a community need – that of access to MSC exhibition (2 million Australians) SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! are recognized content-rich science and technology • Topics covered include Geosciences leaders in Science Outreach institutions and information, particularly by youth, delivered in (especially Palaeobiology), Natural have sought to provide professional guidance such a way that it could be understood, with Disasters, Human Biology, Science and to other organizations such as National observers empowered and enthused to seek Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, Museum of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto more and personally evaluate the information Climate Change University Museum (Japan), the Gunma they were accessing. Prefectural Museum (Japan), the Exhibitions have toured around Australia, Paleontological Institute of the Russian SCI! Expo is located in the science precinct (Museum Victoria, Queensland Museum, Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the on the Clayton campus of Monash University. Northern Territory, National Wool Museum Shanghai Natural History Museum (China), Monash University is Australia’s largest and (Geelong), South Australian Museum, the Kotelnich Regional Museum (Russia), the most internationally focussed University. Bathurst Rock andMineral Museum omongst Singapore Science Centre, the Iranian others. Internationally, including the Burke Science and Technology Museum among The Patron of this Centre is Sir David Museum (University of Washington, USA), the many others. Attenborough. New Jersey State Museum (USA), the Los SCI! Expo The Exhibition

This exhibition looks at the diversity of life in dynamic poses include a giant lizard Specimen list the great southern super-continent Gondwana (Megalania) chasing a giant flightless bird Precambrian (older than 542 mya) from 3.8 billion years to present. (Bullockornis), and an Antarctica dinosaur § Slabs of Neoproterozoic material (Cryolohophosaurus). All furniture and (metazoan body fossils and traces from The unique nature of the fauna of this protective perspex panels. Comprehensive Australia, Namibia, England etc.) continent and the complex interplay of Education Kits for Levels Prep to Year 8 and § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation changes over geological history provides an above. Early modern life (Cambrian - Ordivician engaging context for exhibition attendees. 542-444 mya) This exhibition has been supported by Visions § Archaeocyathid colony blocks The exhibition highlights the products of of Australia, an Australian Government § Trilobite resting or feeding trace and worm research by some of the world's leading Program supporting touring exhibitions by traces palaeontologists, including staff from Monash providing funding assistance for the § Rock specimens with Agnostid trilobite University. development and touring of cultural material § Large selection of graptolites from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Victoria. across Australia. Collection of material has Components Including Phyllograptus, Didymograptus 42 information panels More than 300 long been supported by the National and Tetragraptus. specimens of fossils and rocks (including Geographic Society, The International Dromornis stirtoni, Reconstruction of Central Photograph provided by the Herald Sun: Boy and Megalania, relative of the living Komodo Dragon, which had inhabited Australia until only a few 10,000’s of years ago. Geosciences Program of UNESCO and many original and cast material), both fragmentary Australian Miocene. This reconstruction depicts a and full skeletons. Art works by Peter Trusler other agencies. scene in times past, 8 million years before the Angeles County Museum (USA), Argentina, present. Then Dromornis stirtoni, the largest and others depicting the animals and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia Japan, Italy, the Singapore Science Centre, palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, and Art/Science Museum (Singapore the petioles and twigs growing three or four metres National Museum of Natural Sciences above the ground. (Artist Peter Trusler) (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste).

Successful Exhibitions rely on strong relationships with host venues and research organisations such as, National Geographic Society (Washington), Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), The San Juan Natural History Museum (Argentina), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National Museum (the latter 3 in Japan), The American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA).

SCI! Expo and its outreach primary education partner PrimeSCI! highly value the co- Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! examining a reconstruction of a operative input to exhibitions and education Theropod dinosaur. Photo by Steve Morton modules by community groups, government and the private sector, for example the SES SCI! Expo is the offspring of the Monash SCI! Expo (State Emergency Services), EMA Science Centre, which was launched in 1993 (Emergency Management Australia), CFA In the last 11 years as the brainchild of a research academic and (Country Fire Authority), Qantas, and the Vice Chancellor of Monash University. It • Over 5+ million people have attended an GlaxoSmithKlein and others. filled a community need – that of access to MSC exhibition (2 million Australians) SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! are recognized content-rich science and technology • Topics covered include Geosciences leaders in Science Outreach institutions and information, particularly by youth, delivered in (especially Palaeobiology), Natural have sought to provide professional guidance such a way that it could be understood, with Disasters, Human Biology, Science and to other organizations such as National observers empowered and enthused to seek Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, Museum of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto more and personally evaluate the information Climate Change University Museum (Japan), the Gunma they were accessing. Prefectural Museum (Japan), the Exhibitions have toured around Australia, Paleontological Institute of the Russian SCI! Expo is located in the science precinct (Museum Victoria, Queensland Museum, Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the on the Clayton campus of Monash University. Northern Territory, National Wool Museum Shanghai Natural History Museum (China), Monash University is Australia’s largest and (Geelong), South Australian Museum, the Kotelnich Regional Museum (Russia), the most internationally focussed University. Bathurst Rock andMineral Museum omongst Singapore Science Centre, the Iranian others. Internationally, including the Burke Science and Technology Museum among The Patron of this Centre is Sir David Museum (University of Washington, USA), the many others. Attenborough. New Jersey State Museum (USA), the Los § Neohelos skull and partial skeleton Below: As the bottom-feeding dipnoan, Griphognathus whitei, probes platypus-like in the organic rich mud § Meiolania partial skull at a depth of about 100 metres near the Late barrier reef of Gogo, Western Australia, a curious § New Caledonian Silvornis (extinct ground arthrodire placoderm, Eastmanosteus calliaspis, comes to investigate the commotion (Artist Peter Trusler from Wildlife of Gondwana by P. Vickers Rich & T.H. Rich). bird) bones § Lord Howe Is & Norfolk Is fossil birds § Large rock specimens from several different locales § Megatherium americana footprint § Toxodon platensis complete skeleton § Thylacosmilus, Propleopus and Eumegamys (), skulls and carapace § Thylacosmilus skull § Smilodon and Canis dirus from Rancho La Brea, for comparison with Thylacosmilus § Wombat skeleton in block § Wide selection of casts of primitive marsupials from Central Australia § Eggshells from Rhea, Dromornis and Dinornis § Bones from New Zealand Moas and ground parrots § Platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinus) skeleton

Koolasuchus cleelandi, the last surviving labyrinthodont amphibian, Early , Victoria (Artist P. Trusler) Below: The carcass of a turkey-sized dinosaur, amicagraphica, lies near the cold water’s edge (444-416 mya) Cretaceous (145.5-65.5 mya) § intrepidus jaw & model where accumulating ice reflects the low-angled § Baragwanathia longfolia block (early land New Zealand Specimens § Rock specimen from polar site in Victoria polar light of this high latitude area. plants) § Footprints from Winton Quarry, Queensland Vertebrate fossils (Artist Peter Trusler) § Trilobites § Theropod partial claw § Ankylosaur vertebra, rib § Theropod ulna Devonian (416-359 mya) § Sauropod rib fragment § Limestone nodules § Pterosaur distal ulna Indian Specimens § Placoderm material § Small theropod (or bird) toe bone § Ammonites § Eastmanosteus calliospis skull § Large theropod partial toe bone Cainozoic (Tertiary) Eocene (55.8-33.9 mya) § Receptaculitids § Pterosaur? scapula (shoulder blade) § Gondwanathere partial lower jaw § Block of Murindal limestone with fossils Central Asian Specimens with close § Dromornithid foot § Stromatoporoids (Colonial reef building relations to Austrlian forms § Crocodile and turtle material metazoans) § Large carnosaur in a dig scene § Slab with tabulate and tetracorals Cainozoic (Tertiary) Oligocene (33.9-23 § Ankylosaur skeleton § Ammonites mya) § Ornithomimosaur skeleton § Trackway of an early amphibian § Wynyardia skull (cast) § Spinella yassensis (brachiopods) Antarctic Specimens § Emydura (turtle) plastron § Hadrosaur metatarsal § Diprotodontid jaw (359-299 mya) § Variety of invertebrates § Early amphibians and reptiles Cainozoic (Tertiary) Miocene (23-5.3 mya) § Shark vertebrae § Bullockornis partial skull (299-251 mya) South American Specimens § Neohelos partial lower jaw § Mesosaurus skeleton § Piatnizkysaurus skull § Borhyaenid skeleton § Glossopteris plant slabs § Herrerasaurus skull Cainozoic (Tertiary) (5.3-2.6 mya) (251-205 mya) Australian material § Didelphidae skull § Palaeoniscid fish § Queensland dicynodont § Actenomys sp. skulls (Rodentia, § Deltasuchus kimberleyensis, labyrinthodont § Large variety of southern polar Australian Caviomropha) amphibian. dinosaur material (including Timimus § 2 Lagostomopsis sp. skeletons § Thrinaxodon cast hermani, Leaellynasaura amicigraphica, § Paedotherium sp. Skull § Lystrosaurus, skull and skeleton Megalosaurus, ? Allosauroid sp., § Glaudodon ballaratensis, lower jaw, cast of § Ichthyosaur model Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei) type specimen § Rubidgia skull § Ausktribosphenos nyktos lower jaw § Ostrich bones from South Africa (199-145.5 mya) § Teinolophos trusleri lower jaw Cainozoic - Pleistocene (2.6- present) § Cryolophosaurus elliotti, mounted skeleton § Chelycarapookus arcuatus, internal mould § Sthenurus sp. jaws § Pterosaur humerus of the shell § Diprotodon teeth § Isolated carnosaur tooth § loadsi lower jaw § Megalania prisca skeleton attacking a § Prosauropod partial foot § Koolasuchus cleelandi partial lower jaw & Bullockornis skeleton § Tritylodont tooth clavicle § Dromornis skull § Footprints of § Large variety of Australian plant and § Palorchestes azeal skull and partial § A variety of invertebrates and plants from invertebrate material skeleton locales around Australia and Sri Lanka. § Monotreme humerus § Zygomaturus skull § Pterosaur humerus § Neohelos skull and partial skeleton Below: As the bottom-feeding dipnoan, Griphognathus whitei, probes platypus-like in the organic rich mud § Meiolania partial skull at a depth of about 100 metres near the Late Devonian barrier reef of Gogo, Western Australia, a curious § New Caledonian Silvornis (extinct ground arthrodire placoderm, Eastmanosteus calliaspis, comes to investigate the commotion (Artist Peter Trusler from Wildlife of Gondwana by P. Vickers Rich & T.H. Rich). bird) bones § Lord Howe Is & Norfolk Is fossil birds § Large rock specimens from several different locales § Megatherium americana footprint § Toxodon platensis complete skeleton § Thylacosmilus, Propleopus and Eumegamys (rodent), skulls and carapace § Thylacosmilus skull § Smilodon and Canis dirus from Rancho La Brea, for comparison with Thylacosmilus § Wombat skeleton in block § Wide selection of casts of primitive marsupials from Central Australia § Eggshells from Rhea, Dromornis and Dinornis § Bones from New Zealand Moas and ground parrots § Platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinus) skeleton

Koolasuchus cleelandi, the last surviving labyrinthodont amphibian, , Victoria (Artist P. Trusler) Below: The carcass of a turkey-sized hypsilophodont dinosaur, Leaellynasaura amicagraphica, lies near the cold water’s edge Silurian (444-416 mya) Cretaceous (145.5-65.5 mya) § Qantassaurus intrepidus jaw & model where accumulating ice reflects the low-angled § Baragwanathia longfolia block (early land New Zealand Specimens § Rock specimen from polar site in Victoria polar light of this high latitude area. plants) § Footprints from Winton Quarry, Queensland Vertebrate fossils (Artist Peter Trusler) § Trilobites § Theropod partial claw § Ankylosaur vertebra, rib § Theropod ulna Devonian (416-359 mya) § Sauropod rib fragment § Limestone nodules § Pterosaur distal ulna Indian Specimens § Placoderm material § Small theropod (or bird) toe bone § Ammonites § Eastmanosteus calliospis skull § Large theropod partial toe bone Cainozoic (Tertiary) Eocene (55.8-33.9 mya) § Receptaculitids § Pterosaur? scapula (shoulder blade) § Gondwanathere partial lower jaw § Block of Murindal limestone with fossils Central Asian Specimens with close § Dromornithid foot § Stromatoporoids (Colonial reef building relations to Austrlian forms § Crocodile and turtle material metazoans) § Large carnosaur in a dig scene § Slab with tabulate and tetracorals Cainozoic (Tertiary) Oligocene (33.9-23 § Ankylosaur skeleton § Ammonites mya) § Ornithomimosaur skeleton § Trackway of an early amphibian § Wynyardia skull (cast) § Spinella yassensis (brachiopods) Antarctic Specimens § Emydura (turtle) plastron § Hadrosaur metatarsal § Diprotodontid jaw Carboniferous (359-299 mya) § Variety of invertebrates § Early amphibians and reptiles Cainozoic (Tertiary) Miocene (23-5.3 mya) § Shark vertebrae § Bullockornis partial skull Permian (299-251 mya) South American Specimens § Neohelos partial lower jaw § Mesosaurus skeleton § Piatnizkysaurus skull § Borhyaenid skeleton § Glossopteris plant slabs § Herrerasaurus skull Cainozoic (Tertiary) Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) Mesozoic Triassic (251-205 mya) Australian material § Didelphidae skull § Palaeoniscid fish § Queensland dicynodont § Actenomys sp. skulls (Rodentia, § Deltasuchus kimberleyensis, labyrinthodont § Large variety of southern polar Australian Caviomropha) amphibian. dinosaur material (including Timimus § 2 Lagostomopsis sp. skeletons § Thrinaxodon cast hermani, Leaellynasaura amicigraphica, § Paedotherium sp. Skull § Lystrosaurus, skull and skeleton Megalosaurus, ? Allosauroid sp., § Glaudodon ballaratensis, lower jaw, cast of § Ichthyosaur model Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei) type specimen § Rubidgia skull § Ausktribosphenos nyktos lower jaw § Ostrich bones from South Africa Jurassic (199-145.5 mya) § Teinolophos trusleri lower jaw Cainozoic - Pleistocene (2.6- present) § Cryolophosaurus elliotti, mounted skeleton § Chelycarapookus arcuatus, internal mould § Sthenurus sp. jaws § Pterosaur humerus of the shell § Diprotodon teeth § Isolated carnosaur tooth § Atlascopcosaurus loadsi lower jaw § Megalania prisca skeleton attacking a § Prosauropod partial foot § Koolasuchus cleelandi partial lower jaw & Bullockornis skeleton § Tritylodont tooth clavicle § Dromornis skull § Footprints of mammals § Large variety of Australian plant and § Palorchestes azeal skull and partial § A variety of invertebrates and plants from invertebrate material skeleton locales around Australia and Sri Lanka. § Monotreme humerus § Zygomaturus skull § Pterosaur humerus Technical Information Below: Reconstruction of the Cenozoic-aged mega-lizard Megalania prisca attacking a large dromornithid bird, Genyornis newtoni (Artist Peter Trusler).

The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition SHIPPING COSTS DISPLAY COMPONENTS The venue would be responsible for all costs Over 300 specimens of fossils and geological THEMES for Sea Freight and customs charges from specimens (including original and cast Fossils, Nature, Animals, Climate Change and Melbourne, Australia and return. The 32 material) both fragmentary and full skeletal Reconstructing the Past, Crises in Life History exhibition crates fit into one forty foot high material. Skeletons are mounted in dynamic EXHIBIT SIZE cube shipping container. poses The exhibit requires a minimum of 400 square INSTALL/ DISMANTLE 50 full-colour laminated information panels metres but can be adjusted to fit space. The setup fee covers expenses for both setup (450 x 1000mm) CEILING AND DOOR SIZE and dismantling, and for loss or damage 9 large Panel reproductions of art work by The tallest standing specimen is Gallimimus insurance coverage of the exhibition while in Peter Trusler and Peter Schouten at 3.2m high by 5.2 m long. The widest exhibit transit. Fee to be provided by the Lender and crate is 2310mm length x 1200mm width x is worked out for each venue. This fee 10 prints by Peter Trusler 660mm high, and the tallest crates are includes significant Public Relations in 12 original drawings by Jorge Gonzalez 1950mm length x 1950mm width x 1535mm country for the exhibit. high. The maximum weight of any individual TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONTROL Modular exhibition furniture and protective crate is 1050kg. Relative humidity (RH) should be set to a acrylic barriers DURATION value between 25% and 60%. The Documentaries and sound tracks Typically 3 month minimum temperature of the exhibition space should remain between 10 and 28 degrees Celsius at TARGET AUDIENCE all times. 5 year olds and above, families, schools, (but A mix of southern animals in the north - Messel, very little can enjoy) SECURITY LEVEL Germany. A minimum of 1 gallery attendant or 24 hour A Middle Eocene scene showing a primitive INSURANCE camera surveillance required. We provide artiodactyl (Messelobunodon) foraging among the Venue must provide a certificate of insurance protective barriers for all displays. leaf litter while, behind it, others have settled down for US$ 10 million for public liability insurance. for the night. In the upper right-hand corner, the The Venue will need to cover the insurance for SPONSORSHIP possible edentate Eurotamamandua starts to break into a termite mound. Below it is an interested loss or damage to the specimens. You are welcome to source sponsors for this pangolin, Eomanis. In the lower left-hand corner, exhibition in your venue the primitive hedgehog Holidocercus is consuming a beetle. (Artist Peter Trusler from The Fossil Book)

Below: Reconstruction of Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, a Cretaceous cerotopsian found in Victoria (Artist Peter Trusler). Technical Information Below: Reconstruction of the Cenozoic-aged mega-lizard Megalania prisca attacking a large dromornithid bird, Genyornis newtoni (Artist Peter Trusler).

The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition SHIPPING COSTS DISPLAY COMPONENTS The venue would be responsible for all costs Over 300 specimens of fossils and geological THEMES for Sea Freight and customs charges from specimens (including original and cast Fossils, Nature, Animals, Climate Change and Melbourne, Australia and return. The 32 material) both fragmentary and full skeletal Reconstructing the Past, Crises in Life History exhibition crates fit into one forty foot high material. Skeletons are mounted in dynamic EXHIBIT SIZE cube shipping container. poses The exhibit requires a minimum of 400 square INSTALL/ DISMANTLE 50 full-colour laminated information panels metres but can be adjusted to fit space. The setup fee covers expenses for both setup (450 x 1000mm) CEILING AND DOOR SIZE and dismantling, and for loss or damage 9 large Panel reproductions of art work by The tallest standing specimen is Gallimimus insurance coverage of the exhibition while in Peter Trusler and Peter Schouten at 3.2m high by 5.2 m long. The widest exhibit transit. Fee to be provided by the Lender and crate is 2310mm length x 1200mm width x is worked out for each venue. This fee 10 prints by Peter Trusler 660mm high, and the tallest crates are includes significant Public Relations in 12 original drawings by Jorge Gonzalez 1950mm length x 1950mm width x 1535mm country for the exhibit. high. The maximum weight of any individual TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONTROL Modular exhibition furniture and protective crate is 1050kg. Relative humidity (RH) should be set to a acrylic barriers DURATION value between 25% and 60%. The Documentaries and sound tracks Typically 3 month minimum temperature of the exhibition space should remain between 10 and 28 degrees Celsius at TARGET AUDIENCE all times. 5 year olds and above, families, schools, (but A mix of southern animals in the north - Messel, very little can enjoy) SECURITY LEVEL Germany. A minimum of 1 gallery attendant or 24 hour A Middle Eocene scene showing a primitive INSURANCE camera surveillance required. We provide artiodactyl (Messelobunodon) foraging among the Venue must provide a certificate of insurance protective barriers for all displays. leaf litter while, behind it, others have settled down for US$ 10 million for public liability insurance. for the night. In the upper right-hand corner, the The Venue will need to cover the insurance for SPONSORSHIP possible edentate Eurotamamandua starts to break into a termite mound. Below it is an interested loss or damage to the specimens. You are welcome to source sponsors for this pangolin, Eomanis. In the lower left-hand corner, exhibition in your venue the primitive hedgehog Holidocercus is consuming a beetle. (Artist Peter Trusler from The Fossil Book)

Below: Reconstruction of Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, a Cretaceous cerotopsian found in Victoria (Artist Peter Trusler). Above: All of the except in this scene are from Early Cretaceous polar Front Cover: Polar Southeastern Australia, 110 million Victoria. From Right to left: an ankylosaur Minmi, Atlascopcosaurus are in the background and a years ago. A mixed mob of hypsilophodont dinosaurs flying reptile (a pterosaur) in the air. (Credit: Artist Peter Trusler, copyright Australia Post. This (Qantassaurus and Leaellynasaura) gaze at the Winter material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original Aurora while a Timimus hibernates beneath an work is held in the National Philatelic Collection). araucarian log. (Credit: Peter Trusler) For further details contact Professor Patricia Vickers Rich Office of the Vice Chancellor

Chair in Palaeontology School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment Monash University Building 28, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton (Melbourne) Australia Telephone: +61 3 9905 4889 Facsimile: +61 3 9905 4903 Email: [email protected] Mobile: +61 412 230 624 www.monash.edu/science/about/schools/geosciences/precsite/ Expo