Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Muttaburrasaurus

- Pronunciation: mut-tah-BUR-rah-SAWR-us
- Translation: Muttaburra Lizard
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Ornithopoda
- Infraorder: Iguanodontia
- Family: Iguanodoutidae
- Height: 15 feet (4.6 meters)
- Length: 23 feet (7 meters)
- Period: Early Cretaceous
- Notes: Found in Australia, Muttaburrasaurus had a broad low-headand hoof-like hands with a large flattened thumb spike. Its teethmay have worked like shears, unlike those of other iguanodontids,and some take this shearing ability to mean that Muttaburrasaurus may have been partially carnivorous.