Muttaburrasaurus
MUT-ah-BUR-ah-SORE-us /ˌmʌtəˌbʌrəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Muttaburra lizard
- Muttaburra · Place name (Queensland, Australia) · town near the discovery site
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name honours the town of Muttaburra in central Queensland, Australia, near where the first skeleton was found by a grazier in 1963. It combines the town's name with the Greek word for lizard. The type species is Muttaburrasaurus langdoni, named after Doug Langdon, the grazier who discovered the fossil.
- Named by
- Bartholomai and Molnar
- Year named
- 1981
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Albian
- Found in
- Mackunda Formation, near Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia
A large ornithopod (iguanodontian) from Australia. Material from the Allaru Mudstone has also been referred to it.