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Dinosaur find in Austria: in 1871 E. Bunzel found the fossil remains 
of a struthiosaur in a now closed coal mine near Muthmannsdorf in the  
Neue Welt Basin. The spines and plates as well as fragments of the 
extremities and the skull have been preserved. These are the only 
documented dinosaur fossils found in Austria. The struthiosaur belongs 
to the Ankylosauria, a suborder constituted by heavily armoured, 
quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs. It had 6 types of 
armour plates and long spines which protected the shoulders, and 
plates with sharp quills for the protection of hips and tail. It lived 
in the upper Cretaceous and, measuring only 1.8 m in length, is 
the smallest of all known ankylosaurs.


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