Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus was a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur, which lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 112 and 103 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian clade Rhabdodontomorpha. After Kunbarrasaurus, it is Australia's most completely known dinosaur from skeletal remains. It was named after Muttaburra, the site in Queensland, Australia, where it was found.
| Muttaburrasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Albian), | |
|---|---|
| Mounted skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Rhabdodontomorpha |
| Genus: | †Muttaburrasaurus Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981 |
| Species: | †M. langdoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981 | |
The dinosaur was selected from twelve candidates to become the official fossil emblem of the State of Queensland.
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