While stumbling upon a sheep station for work, David Elliot discovered remains of this four legged, plant eating dinosaur, which was quickly named a 'sauropod' in the Australian outback. This recent discovery is vital to the modern understand how dinosaurs spread across the globe. This new species gained massive media traction its large size and it’s believed that the new breed grew to at least 14 meters from head to tail.

This discovery has risen some theories regarding the geographic spread of dinosaurs, because Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial facet in this debate. Some experts have claimed that they arrived far earlier than the Cretaceous period, which ended with the cataclysmic bang about 66 million years ago. Some experts have also claimed that the sauropods evolved from the South American ancestors, these would have crossed a land bridge onto Antarctica, skirted its edge, and then cross another bridge on their pathway to Australia. During most of the Cretaceous, the polar continent would have been too cold for these herbivores to have survived that trip to the entirety of the struggle. However, about 105 million years ago, earlier research from CNN has shown, warning the region enough to make a southern passage possible.

This recent breakthrough of a massive Australian dinosaur is vital to the research about dinosaurs as a whole. The possibilities regarding the impact this species might have had on food chains, and movement from climatic patterns, are two aspects that are currently taken into account when studying how these dinosaurs impacted the distribution of other species at this time.