Kunbarrasaurus
"shield lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kunbarrasaurus 3.5 m (11.5 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (105.3–99.7 Mya)
- Place
- Australia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kunbarrasaurus (meaning “shield lizard”) is an extinct genus of small ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. The genus contains a single species, K. ieversi.
What we know
- Named by Leahey et al., 2015.
- Body length estimated at about 3.5 m.
- Fossils found in Australia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kunbarrasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.