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Muttaburrasaurus

It is one of the Australian dinosaurs best known from skeletal remains.

Muttaburrasaurus gives us one of our clearest views of the skeleton of an Australian plant-eating dinosaur.

Muttaburrasaurus at a glance

Diet
Herbivore
A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
When it lived
Cretaceous
Group
Iguanodontia
Iguanodontians
Fossil locations
Australia
Places where fossils have been found

Beyond the game

The real Muttaburrasaurus

It was a herbivorous ornithopod and one of the Australian dinosaurs best known for its skeleton. Its exact position within the ornithopod tree has changed between studies.

Even a dinosaur known from many bones can change position on the family tree. Researchers test relationships by comparing ever larger sets of animals and anatomical features.

This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.

Fossil discoveries

Australia · approximate location
Australia

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Wikipedia ↗

Map location · Australia ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Muttaburrasaurus langdoni

    Wikipedia contributors · Spanish source

    Educational text adapted and translated from this article by Wikipedia contributors. The revision link, when captured in the source catalogue, identifies the source version.

  2. Muttaburrasaurus

    Wikipedia contributors · English source

    Educational text adapted and translated from this article by Wikipedia contributors. The revision link, when captured in the source catalogue, identifies the source version.

  3. Iguanodontia

    Wikipedia contributors · English source

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  4. Living birds

    Wikipedia contributors · English source

    Educational text adapted and translated from this article by Wikipedia contributors. The revision link, when captured in the source catalogue, identifies the source version.

Educational text adapted in English from the existing Wikipedia-backed Dinosgacha catalogue and linked articles by Wikipedia contributors.

Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.

The adapted educational text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. This text license does not apply to the game illustrations.

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