Muttaburrasaurus: Iconic Australian Dinosaur gets Bizarre Facelift

Please enjoy this episode focusing on the famous Australian Dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus, which has recently received a controversial facelift. In addition, there follows a brief description of the small Ornithopod Leaellynasaurua, which starred alongside Muttaburrasaurus in the Walking with Dinosaurs episode Spirits of the Ice Forest. RIP Ben Bartlett. https://www.patreon.com/c/DrPolaris?vanity=user Thumbnail art by AshleyPalaeo Sources used for this video: Federico L. Agnolin, Martın D. Ezcurra, Diego F. Pais and Steven W. Salisbury (2010). "A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities" Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8 (2) Bartholomai, Alan and Molnar, R.E. (1981). "Muttaburrasaurus: a new Iguanodontid (Ornithischia:Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 20 (2): 319–349. Bell, Phil R.; Herne, Matthew C.; Birch, Sienna A.; Molnar, Ralph E.; Smith, Elizabeth T. (2025). "Articulated hindlimb of a small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology: 1–16. doi:10.1080/03115518.2025.2537025. ISSN 0311-5518. Peter J. Bishop; Karl T. Bates; Vivian R. Allen; Donald M. Henderson; Marcela Randau; John R. Hutchinson (2020). "Relationships of mass properties and body proportions to locomotor habit in terrestrial Archosauria". Paleobiology. 46 (4): 550–568. Bibcode:2020Pbio...46..550B. doi:10.1017/pab.2020.47. S2CID 227129682. Fonseca, André O.; Reid, Iain J.; Venner, Alexander; Duncan, Ruairidh J.; Garcia, Mauricio S.; Müller, Rodrigo T. (December 2024). "A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis on early ornithischian evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2346577. Bibcode:2024JSPal..2246577F. doi:10.1080/14772019.2024.2346577. Herne, M. (2013). "Anatomy, systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs of the Australian-Antarctic rift system" PhD Thesis. The University of Queensland. Herne, M. C.; Bevitt, J. J.; Milan, L.; Hocknull, S. A.; Tait, A. M.; Allen, C. M.; Rozefelds, A. C.; Molnar, R. E.; Weisbecker, V.; Bell, P. R. (2026). "Cranial anatomy, palaeoneurology, palaeobiology and stratigraphic age of the large-bodied ornithopod, Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981, from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia". PeerJ. 14 e20794. doi:10.7717/peerj.20794. Herne, Matthew C.; Nair, Jay P.; Evans, Alistair R.; Tait, Alan M. (2019). "New small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system, with revision of Qantassaurus intrepidus Rich and Vickers-Rich, 1999". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (3): 543–584. Bibcode:2019JPal...93..543H. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.95. Kotevski, J.; Duncan, R.J.; Ziegler, T.; Bevitt, J.J.; Vickers-Rich, P.; Rich, T.H.; Evans, A.R.; Poropat, S.F. (2025). "Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of new carcharodontosaurian, megaraptorid, and unenlagiine theropod remains from the upper Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, southeast Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 44 (4). e2441903. doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2441903. Poole, Karen E. (25 October 2022). "Phylogeny of iguanodontian dinosaurs and the evolution of quadrupedality". Palaeontologia Electronica. 25 (3). doi:10.26879/702. Rich, T.H.; Galton, P.M.; Vickers-rich, P. (2010). "The holotype individual of the ornithopod dinosaur Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich & Rich, 1989 (late Early Cretaceous, Victoria, Australia)". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 34 (3): 385–396. Bibcode:2010Alch...34..385R. doi:10.1080/03115518.2010.489404.