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Muttaburrasaurus langdoni

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.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4965849https://www.gbif.org/species/4965849
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)64271https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=64271
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Muttaburrasaurus : Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Muttaburrasaurus : Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Ornithischia
-Neornithischia
-Ornithopoda
-Iguanodontia
-RhabdodontomorphaDieudonné et al. 2016
genusMuttaburrasaurusBartholomai and Molnar 1981
speciesMuttaburrasaurus langdoniBartholomai & Molnar 1981
Generic NameMuttaburrasaurus
Scientific NameMuttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated without evidenceBartholomai and Molnar, 1981
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated with evidenceNorman and Weishampel, 1990
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated without evidenceMolnar, 1991
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated with evidenceNorman, 2004
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated without evidenceMcDonald et al., 2010
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated with evidenceZheng et al., 2013
Muttaburrasaurus langdonispeciesbelongs to Muttaburrasaurusstated without evidenceDieudonné et al., 2016
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Ornithischia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Dietherbivore (based on Ornithopoda)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,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
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttaburrasaurus_langdoni

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1981Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar p. 320
1982Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Molnar p. 621
1983Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Molnar p. 155
1986Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bonaparte p. 84
1990Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Norman and Weishampel p. 531
1991Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Molnar p. 650
1992Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Molnar p. 261
1996Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Molnar p. 170
1997Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Vickaryous and Ryan p. 490
YearName and Author
2004Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Norman p. 416
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Agnolin et al. p. 274
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Carpenter and Ishida p. 152
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2013Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Zheng et al.
2016Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Dieudonné et al. p. 5
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bell et al. p. 18
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Madzia et al. p. 969
2019Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bell et al. p. 1
2019Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Brougham et al. p. 11

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
Molnar R. E. (1991) Fossil reptiles in Australia, Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia, 605-702
Norman D. B. (2004) Basal Iguanodontia, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 413-437
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
Carpenter K., Ishida Y. (2010) Early and "middle" Cretaceous iguanodonts in time and space, Journal of Iberian Geology 36 2, 145-164 doi:10.5209/rev_JIGE.2010.v36.n2.3
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
Zheng W., Jin X., et al (2013) An early juvenile specimen of Bolong yixianensis (Ornithopoda: Iguanodontia from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol, China, Historical Biology doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2013.809347
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
Bell P. R., Herne M. C., et al (2018) Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia, PeerJ 6, e6008:1-40 doi:10.7717/peerj.6008
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
Bell P. R., Brougham T., et al (2019) Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 1, e1564757:1-18 doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1564757
Brougham T., Smith E. T., et al (2019) New theropod (Tetanurae: Avetheropoda) material from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous Griman Greek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, Royal Society Open Science 6, 180826:1-18 doi:10.1098/rsos.180826
A. Bartholomai, R. E. Molnar (1981) Muttaburrasaurus, a new iguanodontid (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland: Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 2: 319--349 - via Catalogue of Life
W. Zheng, X. Jin, M. Shibata, Y. Azuma (2013) An early juvenile specimen of Bolong yixianensis (Ornithopoda: Iguanodontia from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol, China: Historical Biology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2013.809347) - via Catalogue of Life
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