Muttaburrasaurus - Canberra, ACT, Australia
S 35° 17.580 E 149° 07.185
55H E 692753 N 6092402
In the National Museum of Australia is a reconstructed dinosaur that was found in 1987, in Queensland.
Waymark Code: WM1011J
Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date Posted: 02/05/2019
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Beside the recreated set of cast bones is an interpretative sign, explaining more about it. it reads:
Muttaburrasaurus
"The plants, animals and climate of the Australian continent have changed dramatically ove long perios of time. Imagine the giant creature roaming the luxuriant wet forests that covered parts of the continent in the Cretaceous period, abut 100-120 million years ago. The Muttaburrasaurus ambled along on all fours or stood on its hind legs. Its large teeth were well-adapted to eat tough vegetation such as the leathery foliage of the evergreen forests of Araucaria trees, ancient relatives of the buny apine of south-eastern Queensland.
"In 1963, grazier Doug Langdon discovered the fossilised bones of a dinosaur on his property near MUttaburra in central-west Queensland. It was one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in Australia. The bones belonged to a new species of ornithopod and palaeontologists named it Muttaburrasaurus langdoni.
[Cast of Muttaburrasaurus langdoni 1987, made by Quensland Museum, Brisbane. National Museum of Australia]
The Wikipedia adds the following information:
"Muttaburrasaurus was about 8 metres (26 ft) and weighed around 2.8 metric tons (3.1 short tons)... The skull of Muttaburrasaurus was rather flat, with a triangular cross-section when seen from above; the back of the head is broad but the snout pointed. The snout includes a strongly enlarged, hollow, upward-bulging nasal muzzle that might have been used to produce distinctive calls or for display purposes. [However, as no fossilised nasal tissue has been found, this remains conjectural.]" Wikipedia: Muttaburrasaurus
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