Black Head

The Black Head fossil locality can be accessed via Shelly Beach. The turn off to the beach is on the right hand side of the road, approximately two kilometres east of the Anderson roundabout, just before Kilcunda. From Shelly Beach, you can walk out onto the shore platform at low tide. To the east is a low cliff that terminates at Black Head. This locality was discovered in 1989 and has produced a significant number of fossil bones over the years, including evidence of both theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs. Fossilised freshwater crustacean burrows have been found and studied by Tony Martin in the sandstone nearby and a report of the discovery of dinosaur footprints has led researchers to return to this locality on a number of occasions.