Qantassaurus kwɑːntuh-SORRUHS
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qantassaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–112 Mya)
- Place
- Australia · Gondwana
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.