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Muttaburrasaurus
''Muttaburrasaurus'' was a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 112 and 103 million years agoHoltz, Thomas R. Jr. (2012) ''Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages,'Winter 2011 Appendix./ref> during the early Cretaceous Period (geology), period. It has been recovered in some analyses as a member of the iguanodontian clade Rhabdodontomorpha. After ''Kunbarrasaurus'', it is Australia's most completely known dinosaur from skeletal remains. It was named after Muttaburra, the site in Queensland, Australia, where it was found. The dinosaur was selected from twelve candidates to become the Symbols of Queensland, official fossil emblem of the State of Queensland. Discovery The species was initially described from a partial skeleton found by grazier Doug Langdon in 1963 at Rosebery Downs Station beside Thomson River (Queensland), Thomson River near Muttaburr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Muttaburra
Muttaburra is an outback town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. Muttaburra was the discovery site of the ''Muttaburrasaurus'', one of Australia's most famous dinosaurs. In the , the locality of Muttaburra had a population of 158 people. Geography Muttaburra is in the Central West Queensland, central west of Queensland. The town is located on the banks of the Thomson River (Queensland), Thomson River, which is part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin. The Hughenden–Muttaburra Road enters from the north and exits as Muttaburra–Aramac Road to the east. The region is with a sub-basin of the Great Artesian Basin. The Great Artesian Basin supplies water from bores to the towns of Muttaburra and Aramac, Queensland, Aramac. The area is well known for its good quality land that is used for sheep and cattle grazing. The main industry of the Muttaburra area is grazing. The undeveloped town of Scarrbury is within the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Symbols Of Queensland
The symbols of Queensland represent the Australian state of Queensland and the Queensland Government. The different symbols and emblems represent both the Head of state, state (the Monarchy of Australia, Commonwealth monarch, represented by the Governor of Queensland, State Governor) and the Head of government, government (the Premier of Queensland, Premier and Governor-in-Council). The official state emblems of Queensland are prescribed in the ''Emblems of Queensland Act 2005''. State flag of Queensland The state flag of Queensland is a British Blue Ensign with the state badge on a white disc added in the Flag terminology#Description of standard flag parts and terms, fly. The badge is a light blue Maltese Cross (symbol), Maltese Cross with an imperial crown in the centre of the cross. The flag dates from 1876, with minor variations, and the badge was designed by William Hemmant, the Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of Queensland in 1876. Queensland Badge The current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Rhabdodontomorpha
Rhabdodontomorpha is a clade of basal iguanodont dinosaurs. This group was named in 2016 in the context of the description, based on Spanish findings of an early member of the Rhabdodontidae. A cladistic analysis was conducted in which it was found that ''Muttaburrasaurus'' was the sister species of the Rhabdodontidae ''sensu'' Weishampel. Therefore, Paul-Emile Dieudonné, Thierry Tortosa, Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor, José Ignacio Canudo and Ignacio Díaz-Martínez defined Rhabdodontomorpha as a nodal clade: the group consisting of the last common ancestor of '' Rhabdodon priscus'' Matheron, 1869 and ''Muttaburrasaurus langdoni'' Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981; and all its descendants. Within the clade '' Zalmoxes'' and '' Mochlodon'' are also included. In 2021, Daniel Madzia redefined Rhabdodontomorpha in the ''PhyloCode'' as "the largest clade containing '' Rhabdodon priscus'', but not ''Iguanodon bernissartensis'' and ''Hypsilophodon foxii''". The clade is characterized by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Iguanodontia
Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (). They represent one of the most successful groups of herbivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous. The most primitive members of the group were bipedal and relatively small-sized, while advanced members of the subgroup Iguanodontia became quadrupedal and developed large body size. Their major evolutionary advantage was the progressive development of a chewing apparatus that became the most sophisticated ever developed by a non-avian dinosaur, rivaling that of modern mammals such as the domestic cow. They reached their apex of diversity and ecological dominance in the hadrosaurids (colloquially known as 'duck-bills'), before they were wiped out by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event along with all other non- avian dinosaurs. Members are known worldwide. History of research In 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley listed Iguanodontidae (coined by Edward Drinker Cope a year earlier) as one of his three famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alan Bartholomai
Alan Bartholomai AM (1938–2015) was a geologist and palaeontologist, and Director of the Queensland Museum from 1969–1999. Early life and education Alan Bartholomai was born on 31 December 1938 in Boonah, Queensland. He attended Boonah State School and after his parents moved the family to the Gold Coast, he attended the Southport State School. He boarded at Gatton College in 1953–1954 where he took his Junior Certificate, and completed his senior studies at Southport State High School. He was able to obtain a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the University of Queensland and pursue a BSc in geology and zoology, graduating in 1960. Career After graduation, Bartholomai was appointed the Curator of Geology at the Queensland Museum. He studied his MSc on fossil kangaroos, under the supervision of Dorothy Hill, and graduated in 1969. He continued his study toward a PhD, taking this in 1973 with a thesis on the ''Stratigraphy, skeletal morphology and evolution of the Uppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1981 In Paleontology
Plants Angiosperms Superrosids - Fabids Arthropoda Insects Reptilia Early reptiles Archosauromorpha Dinosaurs Birds * ''Palaeopteryx thomsoni'' Jensen, 1981 is most likely not a bird but rather a small non-avian dinosaur. * ''Plegadis pharangites'' Olson, 1981 is a new name for ''Plegadis gracilis'' Miller et Bowman, 1956, preoccupied by ''Plegadis gracilis'' (Lydekker, 1891), described as ''Milnea gracilis'' Lydekker, 1891 and transferred to the genus ''Plegadis'' Kaup, 1829 by Cheneval, 1984. Plesiosaurs * Carroll, R. C., 1981, Plesiosaur ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, v. 293, p. 315- 383. Pterosaurs New taxa References {{portal, Paleontology [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ralph Molnar
Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is also a research associate at the Texas Natural Science Centre. He co-authored descriptions of the dinosaurs ''Muttaburrasaurus'', '' Kakuru'',Molnar, R.E. & Pledge, N.S. (1980) "A new theropod dinosaur from South Australia." ''Alcheringa'' 4:281-287 '' Minmi'' and '' Ozraptor'', as well as the mammal ''Steropodon ''Steropodon'' is a genus of prehistoric platypus-like monotreme, or Oviparity, egg-laying mammal. It contains a single species, ''Steropodon galmani'', that lived about 100.2–96.6 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, from early to m ...''. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{paleontologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hughenden, Queensland
Hughenden () is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Flinders (Queensland), Flinders Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Hughenden had a population of 1,113 people. Geography Hughenden is situated on the banks of the Flinders River. Hughenden has the following mountains (from west to east): * Mount Walker () * Mount Mowbray () * Mount Devlin () * Mount Castor () * Mount Beckford () Hughenden is located on the Flinders Highway, Queensland, Flinders Highway, west of Townsville and north-west of Brisbane, the state capital. The region around Hughenden is a major centre for the grazing of sheep and cattle. The main feed is annual grasses known as Flinders grass, which grow rapidly on the (by Australian standards) fertile grey or brown Vertisol, cracking clay soils after rain between November and March. However, because the rainfall is extremely erratic – at Hughenden itself it has ranged from in 1926 to in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mackunda Formation
The Mackunda Formation is a geological formation in Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel, David B; ''et al.'' (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Australasia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 573-574. . It consists primarily of interbedded and cross bedded greensand, with variably calcareous shale, with local ferricrete. Vertebrate paleofauna See also * List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented. * List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils * List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils ** ... References {{Reflist Cretaceous System of Australia Early Cretaceous Australia A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's List of country subdivisions by area, sixth-largest subnational entity; it List of countries and dependencies by area, is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its Tropical climate, tropical and Humid subtropical climate, sub-tropical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |