Genus
Valid Extinct

Qantassaurus

Rich and Vickers-Rich 1999

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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Qantassaurus
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Photo: mounted skeleton of Qantassaurus intrepidus at the Australian Museum, Sydney. © Matt Martyniuk (Dinoguy2) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Iguanodontia Infraorder
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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade
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Elasmaria Unranked clade
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Qantassaurus Genus
Measurements
Length
1,8 m ⓘ
Qantassaurus intrepidus 
Mass
10 kg ⓘ
Qantassaurus intrepidus 
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
2
Geological formations
"Wonthaggi"
2
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Qantassaurus intrepidus 126 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1999. The Hypsilophodontidae from southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:167-180
Bibliography (2)
M. C. Herne, J. P. Nair, and A. R. Evans, A. M. Tait. 2019. New small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system, with revision of Qantassaurus intrepidus Rich and Vickers-Rich, 1999. Journal of Paleontology 93(3):543-584 DOI ↗
T. H. Rich and P. Vickers-Rich. 1999. The Hypsilophodontidae from southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:167-180