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Muttaburrasaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaur from Queensland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[1] during the early Cretaceous period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian clade Rhabdodontomorpha.[2] 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.
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Muttaburrasaurus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Rhabdodontomorpha |
Genus: | †Muttaburrasaurus Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981 |
Species: | †M. langdoni |
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†Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981 | |
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The dinosaur was selected from twelve candidates to become the official fossil emblem of the State of Queensland.[3][4]