Qantassaurus kwɑːntuh-SORRUHS
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qantassaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–112 Mya)
- Place
- Australia · Gondwana
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Qantassaurus ( ) is a genus of basal two-legged, plant-eating elasmarian ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia about 125-112 million years ago, when the continent was still partly south of the Antarctic Circle. It was described by Patricia Vickers-Rich and her husband Tom Rich in 1999 after a find near Inverloch, and named after Qantas, the Australian airline.
What we know
- Named by Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1999.
- Fossils found in Australia and Gondwana.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Qantassaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.