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Description

Muttaburrasaurus was a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur, which lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 105 and 103 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian family Rhabdodontidae. 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.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttaburrasaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4823237	https://www.gbif.org/species/4823237
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38750	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38750

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Muttaburrasaurus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Muttaburrasaurus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Ornithischia
-	Neornithischia
-	Ornithopoda
-	Iguanodontia
-	Rhabdodontomorpha	Dieudonné et al. 2016
genus	Muttaburrasaurus	Bartholomai & Molnar 1981

Scientific Name

Muttaburrasaurus Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981

Name Published In

Memoirs Qd Mus. 20 (2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated without evidence	Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontoidea	stated without evidence	Norman, 1984
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Camptosauridae	stated without evidence	Cooper, 1985
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated without evidence	Bonaparte, 1986
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontia	stated with evidence	Norman and Weishampel, 1990
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated without evidence	Molnar, 1992
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Ornithopoda	stated without evidence	Molnar, 1996
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontia	stated without evidence	Sereno, 1997
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontidae	stated without evidence	Vickaryous and Ryan, 1997
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontia	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1999
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Iguanodontia	stated without evidence	Novas et al., 2004
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Rhabdodontidae	stated with evidence	McDonald et al., 2010
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Styracosterna	stated with evidence	Agnolin et al., 2010
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Rhabdodontomorpha	stated with evidence	Dieudonné et al., 2016
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Styracosterna	stated without evidence	Salisbury et al., 2016
Muttaburrasaurus	genus	belongs to Rhabdodontomorpha	stated with evidence	Madzia et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ornithischia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ornithopoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttaburrasaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Muttaburrasaurus langdoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1981	Muttaburrasaurus Bartholomai and Molnar p. 320
1982	Muttaburrasaurus Molnar p. 621
1983	Muttaburrasaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984	Muttaburrasaurus Milner and Norman p. 146
1984	Muttaburrasaurus Molnar p. 155
1984	Muttaburrasaurus Norman p. 344
1985	Muttaburrasaurus Cooper p. 313
1986	Muttaburrasaurus Bonaparte p. 84
1988	Muttaburrasaurus Carroll
1990	Muttaburrasaurus Norman and Weishampel p. 531
1992	Muttaburrasaurus Molnar p. 265

Year	Name and Author
1996	Muttaburrasaurus Molnar pp. 647-651
1997	Muttaburrasaurus Sereno p. 449
1997	Muttaburrasaurus Vickaryous and Ryan p. 490
1999	Muttaburrasaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2004	Muttaburrasaurus Norman pp. 432-434
2004	Muttaburrasaurus Novas et al. p. 79 fig. 2C
2010	Muttaburrasaurus Agnolin et al. p. 274
2010	Muttaburrasaurus McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2016	Muttaburrasaurus Dieudonné et al. p. 26–27 fig. 14
2016	Muttaburrasaurus Salisbury et al. p. 126
2018	Muttaburrasaurus Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4

References

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

Molnar R. E. H. (1982) A catalogue of fossil amphibians and reptiles in Queensland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20 3, 613-633

Weishampel D. B., Weishampel J. B. (1983) Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography, The Mosasaur 1, 43-87

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

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

Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489

Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147

Norman D. B. (2004) Basal Iguanodontia, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 413-437

Novas F. E., Cambiaso A. V., et al (2004) A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Ameghiniana 41 1, 75-82

Agnolin F. L., Ezcurra M. D., et al (2010) A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 2, 257-300 doi:10.1080/14772011003594870

McDonald A. T., Kirkland J. I., et al (2010) New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs, PLoS One 5 11, e14075:1-35 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014075

Dieudonné P.-E., Tortosa T., et al (2016) An unexpected early rhabdodontid from Europe (Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes, Burgos Province, Spain) and a re-examination of basal iguanodontian relationships, PLoS ONE 11 6, e0156251:1-40 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156251

Salisbury S. W., Romilio A., et al (2016) The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 6, suppl., 1-152 doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539

Madzia D., Boyd C. A., et al (2018) A basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 11, 967-979 doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1371258

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Memoirs Qd Mus. 20 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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