AR Dinosaurs - Group B
Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
Scientific name: Muttaburrasaurus langdoni (Langdon's Muttaburra Lizard)
Age: Cretaceous Period (105 - 101 million years ago)
Size: 7-11 metres long
Location: Muttaburra, central Queensland
Muttaburrasaurus was an ornithopod dinosaur with powerful shearing teeth to eat tough plant material. It had a large, rounded snout which may have been used to make loud hooting sounds. It was scientifically named by Queensland Museum palaeontologists, Dr. Alan Bartholomai and Dr. Ralph Molnar, after the township near where it was found, and to honour the discoverer, grazier Doug Langdon. Muttaburrasaurus is now the official Queensland state dinosaur emblem.
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Platypterygius australis
Scientific name: Platypterygius australis
Age: Cretaceous Period (105 – 101 million years ago)
Size: Up to 5 metres long
Location: Rewan, central Queensland
Platypterygius australis is the only species of ichthyosaur so far known from the Eromanga Sea. It possessed a body shape similar to a shark and flippers like a dolphin, but was a reptile. This marine reptile also possessed long rows of conical teeth perfect for hunting slipper squid and fish in the Eromanga Sea.
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Eromangasaurus australis
Scientific name: Eromangasaurus australis (Southern Eromanga Lizard)
Age: Cretaceous Period (113 – 103 million years ago)
Size: 8-10 metres long
Location: Maxwelton, central Queensland
Eromangasaurus was an elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck. It had flippers and a short tail to swim through the water and sharp, interlocking teeth to catch fish and invertebrates. The skull of Eromangasaurus shows signs of puncture marks when it was bitten by a larger pliosaur. It is named after the Eromanga basin in which it was found and where much of Queensland was covered by an inland sea during the Cretaceous Period.
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