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Muttaburrasaurus langdoni

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Muttaburrasaurus langdoni was named by Bartholomai and Molnar (1981). Its type specimen is QM F6140, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is "Rock Hole", Rosebery Downs, Muttaburra, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian marine mudstone in the Mackunda Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Muttaburrasaurus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar p. 320 figs. 1-12, Pl. 1-2
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
2002Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Buchholz p. 19
2004Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Norman p. 416
2006Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Scanlon p. 280
2009Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Galton p. 215
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Agnolin et al. p. 274
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Carpenter and Ishida p. 152
2010Muttaburrasaurus langdoni McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39
2011Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Romilio and Salisbury p. 140
2013Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Zheng et al.
2016Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Dieudonné et al. p. 5
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bell et al. p. 18
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Gates et al. p. 13
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Herne et al. p. 46
2018Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Madzia et al. p. 969
2019Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bell et al. p. 1
2019Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Brougham et al. p. 11
2019Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Herne et al. p. 556
2020Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Dieudonné et al.
2020Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Dieudonné et al. p. 404
2021Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Duncan et al. p. 1
2021Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Verdú et al. p. 4
2022Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Ji and Zhang p. 6
2023Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Poropat et al. p. 170
2025Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Czepiński and Madzia p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Rhabdodontomorpha
genusMuttaburrasaurus
specieslangdoni

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-25 05:57:15
Modified: 2005-08-25 07:57:15
Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Peczkis 1995, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian106.3 - 93.9Australia (Queensland) Ornithopoda indet. (type locality: 59338)