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Muttaburrasaurus... the restored postcranials are based on other Tenontosaurus materials...(for now)Related content
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It's a nice image, however I myself have always pictured them to be pretty muscular, stocky looking creatures; like Texel sheep and Shire Horses.
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I'm glad you like it. Unfortunately, now looking back at it I probably have to redo it since it is quite inaccurate when compare to the more recent cladogram of these animals...
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Not sure about accuracy, since we just didn't have enough to tell the overall shape of the animal. What I did is very speculative. Perhaps there is more of the animal been discovered but it hasn't been publish yet... probably then I'll need to redo the whole thing again...
And thanks, I'm glad that you like my drawing.
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Oh this is very helpful. I haven't read much on this species, but here he looks very...hypsilophodontid.
That's an interesting take.
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Muttaburrasaurus... it is said to be one of the most complete dinosaur found in Australia yet we still don't know much about of its anatomy to classify it properly...
Most (maybe all, probably out there but I just couldn't find them...) drawings that I see of Muttaburrasaurus are based on iguanodon skeletons. So I thought I'll make one from the latest classification...for a change...
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Isn't Minmi the most complete dinosaur found in Australia?
I've always seen this dinosaur reconstructed after Iguanodontids, but, it'd be pretty rare for an Iguanodontid to live in Gondwana. Not many true Iguanodonts have been found in the South. I don't think Talenkauen was an Iguanodon...either...
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I said "one of the most" complete dinosaurs, not "the" most... Sorry I didn't explain myself properly...
Why Muttaburrasaurus are reconstructed as an Iguanodon? It's all about that misidentified thumb spike I guess... Some how this has burnt into most peoples' mind... Tenontosaurus has an enormous tail which is kind of out of the "norm" so if you try to scale it up to the Muttaburrasaurus materials then the whole thing would of been looking quite weird (like the one I drew...) that's probably another reason why people don't do restoration under the current classification scheme...
As for the Talenkauen, it's definitely not an Iguanodon (It is a basal / relict iguanodontid). Well, from what I can gather is that it is a member of the Dryomorpha (For a glance, It has quite similar proportion to a dryosaurus...) which branched off from Iguanodontia. I don't think that people are saying that Talenkauen is an Iguanodon at all... just an iguanodontid...
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