Muttaburrasaurus

Muttaburrasaurus is one of Dinosaure S herbivorous ornithopode of the Crétacé near to the Camptosaurus and the Iguanodon S alive in the North-West of the Australia. The standard species is Muttaburrasaurus langdoni .

Muttaburrasaurus is the kind of the most known dinosaur of the Australian dinosaurs according to the remainders of skeletons discovered after the kind of Ankylosaures Minmi (Molnar, 1980).

Its name means according to the city Muttabura .

Time: Lower cretaceous
Size: 7 m length
Habitat: food Australia
Mode: Herbivore (cycas, ferns, conifers)

Discovered and species

The species was initially described according to an incomplete skeleton discovered in 1963 by Doug Langdon close to Muttaburra in the Queensland in Australia, these elements being at the origin of the name of the kind and the species. The name was given in 1981 by Dr. Alan Bartholomai and Ralph Molnar.

Some teeth were more discovered in north close to Hughenden and in the south with Lightning Ridge

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