Muttaburrasaurus

Muttaburrasaurus
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous,
Mounted skeleton, National Museum of Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Ornithopoda
Genus: †Muttaburrasaurus
Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981
Species:
†M. langdoni
Binomial name
†Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
Bartholomai & Molnar, 1981

Muttaburrasaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now north-eastern Australia during the Albian-Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian clade Rhabdodontomorpha, but more recent research has suggested a more basal position in the ornithopod family tree, potentially as a member of Elasmaria. 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. The dinosaur was selected from twelve candidates to become the official fossil emblem of the State of Queensland.

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