Genre

Valide Éteint

Muttaburrasaurus

Bartholomai and Molnar 1981

Muttaburrasaurus est un genre fossile de dinosaure herbivore ornithopode du Crétacé inférieur proche d'Iguanodon, ayant vécu dans le nord-ouest de l'Australie. Muttaburrasaurus est le genre de dinosaure le plus connu des dinosaures australiens.

Plage temporelle

Trias

Jurassique

Crétacé

Paléogène

Néogène

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Occurrences PBDB

Groupe

Dinosaures

Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre

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Muttaburrasaurus The plants, animals and climate of the Australian continent have changed dramatically over long periods of time. Imagine this giant creature roaming the luxuriant wet forests that covered parts of the continent in the Cretaceous period, about 100-110 million years ago. The Muttaburrasaurus ambled along on all four legs or stood on its hind legs. Its large teeth were well adapted to eat tough vegetation such as the leathery foliage of the evergreen forests of Araucaria trees, ancient relatives of the bunya pine of south-eastern Queensland. In 1963, grazier Doug Langdon discovered the fossilised bones of a dinosaur on his property near Muttaburra in central-west Queensland. It was one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in Australia. The bones belonged to a new species of ornithopod and palaeontologists named it Muttaburrasaurus langdoni. Cast of Muttaburresaurus langdoni 1987 made by Queensland Museum, Brisbane National Museum of Australia © SandwichCafe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Clade non classé

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Ornithischia Clade non classé

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Neornithischia Clade non classé

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Pyrodontia Clade non classé

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Cerapoda Clade non classé

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Ornithopoda Sous-ordre

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Iguanodontia Infraordre

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Euiguanodontia Clade non classé

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Elasmaria Clade non classé

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Muttaburrasaurus Genre

Sites de découverte 3 sites géolocalisés

Répartition

Principaux pays

🇦🇺 Australie

Formations géologiques

Allaru Mudstone

Mackunda

Distribution temporelle

Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)

Espèces (1)

Muttaburrasaurus langdoni 106 Ma

Bibliographie

Description originale

A. Bartholomai and R. E. Molnar. 1981. Muttaburrasaurus, a new iguanodontid (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(2):319-349

Bibliographie (3)

R. E. Molnar. 1996. Observations on the Australian ornithopod dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):639-652

R. E. Molnar. 1991. Fossil reptiles in Australia. Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia