Qantassaurus
Qantassaurus intrepidus
Qantassaurus ( KWAHN-tə-SOR-əs) 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.
- Family
- Hypsilophodontidae
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (115.0–110.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 1.8 m
- Weight
- 10–15 kg
- Type locality
- Wonthaggi Formation, Victoria, Australia
- Holotype
- NMV P199075
- PBDB
- txn:66575