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Qantassaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qantassaurus (/ˌkwɑːntəˈsɔːrəs/ 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.[1]
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Qantassaurus | |
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Skeletal reconstruction of Qantassaurus intrepidus at the Australian Museum, Sydney | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Elasmaria |
Genus: | †Qantassaurus Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1999 |
Species: | †Q. intrepidus |
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†Qantassaurus intrepidus | |
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