Qantassaurus intrepidus - Cretaceous Dinosaurs
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(kwon-tuh-sor-uhss)
"Qantas lizard"
Describer Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1999
Also Known As --
Type of Species intrepidus
Order Ornithischia
SubOrder Ornithopoda
InfraOrder --
Micro-Order --
SuperFamily --
Family ?Hypsilophodontidae
SubFamily --
Size 6 feet (2 meters) long
Period Early Cretaceous, 115 million years ago
Fossilsite Victoria, Australia
Diet Herbivore
Qantassaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 115 million years ago in what is now Victoria, Australia. Qantassaurus was a bipedal herbivore dinosaur. It had small head, five-fingered hands and four-toe feet, long legs and a tail which accounted for half its body size. Qantassaurus was the size of a modern kangaroo. It is believed to be a fast runner.
Many isolated bones and teeth have been found since 1978, on the south coast of Victoria. At one locality that is known as Dinosaur Cove. Some of these findings belong to various kinds of hypsilophodonids, that coexisted in the same habitat, but only remains of lower jaws and teeth are believed to have belonged to Qantassaurus. Because Qantassaurus shared its habitat with species of Fulgurotherium, Atlascopcosaurus, and Leaellynasaura, it will be difficult to say which other bones belonged to each of these similar dinosaurs.
