Qantassaurus
| Qantassaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
| Skeletal reconstruction of Qantassaurus intrepidus at the Australian Museum, Sydney | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Elasmaria |
| Genus: | †Qantassaurus Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1999 |
| Species: | †Q. intrepidus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Qantassaurus intrepidus | |
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.