Re: SOME ORNITHOPOD STUFF (FOR ONCE)

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

"Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it> wrote:

> A part from Altirhinus kurzanovi there are also Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
> that have a nasal crest, similar to that in Altirhinus and Gryposaurus.

According to Ralph Molnar (and I think Paul Sereno as well) 
_Muttaburrasaurus_ is not an iguanodontid, nor even closely related to 
_Iguanodon_, but probably lies closer to the base of the Euornithopoda 
(perhaps as a basal iguanodontian).  A "thumb-spike" reported in the 
original description of _Muttaburrasaurus_ (Bartholomai & Molnar 1981) was 
re-interpreted more recently by Molnar as an indeterminate bone fragment.  
_Mutta_ might turn out to be a big-ass relative of certain Aussie 
hypsilophodonts.


Tim


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