Named By: | T. H. Rich & P. VickersinRich in 1999 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous |
Location: | Australia, Victoria - Wonthaggi Formation |
Size: | By comparison to similar genera, roughly estimated about 1.8 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Jaw fragments |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hypsilophodontidae | |
Qantassaurus ( KWAHN-ta-SOR-as) is a genus of two-legged, plant-eating ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia about 115 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.