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The sedimentary rocks along the Strzelecki coastline were laid down approximately 120 to 115 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous period. The rocks have been dated using both Fission Track Dating (based on radioactive content) and Palynology (based on the fossil pollen in the rock). Both methods of dating correlate the age of the rocks to about 120 million years plus or minus five million years.
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Australia's first dinosaur bone, the Cape Paterson Claw, a claw of a theropod, was discovered near to Eagles Nest, Bunurong Marine National Park, on the 7th May 1903 by William Hamilton Ferguson, a Victoria geologist who was searching for coal along the coast near the town of Inverloch.
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