What did the Qantassaurus eat?

Qantassaurus was a small herbivore that would have eaten edible small, low-growing Early Cretaceous plants such as ferns and horsetails.

Where was Qantassaurus found?

Found at the Flat Rocks site (near Inverloch), Victoria, in 1996. Found by Mrs Nicole Evered.

Did any dinosaurs live in Australia?

Fossils are the traces and remains of ancient animals preserved in rock. In Australia, dinosaurs are known from only a few fossil sites including Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Winton in Queensland and Broome in Western Australia.

How do you say Qantassaurus?

Qantassaurus (/ˌkwɑːntəˈsɔːrəs/ KWAHN-tə-SOR-əs) is a genus of basal two-legged, plant-eating elasmarian ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia about 115 million years ago, when the continent was still partly south of the Antarctic Circle.

What dinosaurs are still alive today?

Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

What was the largest dinosaur in Australia?

Based on skeletal remains found so far, ‘Cooper’ is Australia’s largest dinosaur. Named after Cooper Creek and the Cooper Basin where this dinosaur was discovered. Cooper is currently being discribed as a candidate for a new genus and species of dinosaur and is one of the largest animals to have walked the earth.

Are sharks dinosaurs?

Today’s sharks are descended from relatives that swam alongside dinosaurs in prehistoric times. It lived just after the dinosaurs, 23 million years ago, and only went extinct 2.6 million years ago.

Are sharks older than dinosaurs?

Sharks are among Earth’s most ancient creatures. First evolving over 455 million years ago, sharks are far more ancient than the first dinosaurs, insects, mammals or even trees.

Why are there no dinosaurs in Australia?

Dinosaur fossils are harder to find in Australia than elsewhere in the world because of our geology, says Herne. Our continent has been subject to 30-odd million years of erosion and weathering, so palaeontologists have smaller areas of suitable exposed rock to look at when searching for fossils.

Where have most dinosaurs been found?

Where have the most Dinosaur fossils been found? Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent of Earth, including Antarctica but most of the dinosaur fossils and the greatest variety of species have been found high in the deserts and badlands of North America, China and Argentina.

Are there any dinosaurs alive today?

Did dinosaurs live on Pangea?

Dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago), the continents were arranged together as a single supercontinent called Pangea. During the 165 million years of dinosaur existence this supercontinent slowly broke apart.

Where did the Qantassaurus intrepidus Dinosaur live?

Qantassaurus intrepidus (KWAHN-tuh-SORE-us) is a quick two-legged, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Australia about 115 million years past, when the continent was still south of the Antarctic Circle. It was the size of a little grey kangaroo, and had huge eyes to help it see in the polar night.

What kind of plants did Qantassaurus intrepidus eat?

Qantassaurus was a small herbivore that would have eaten edible small, low-growing Early Cretaceous plants such as ferns and horsetails. Small ornithopods were remarkably common and diverse in Cretaceous Australia, particularly in southern Victoria, and may have travelled in small herds or flocks.

Why was the Qantassaurus named after a Qantas plane?

It was named after the Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service (the airline QANTAS) in recognition of the role the airline played in helping to ship the Great Russian Dinosaurs exhibition around Australia when it toured the country from 1993 to 1996.

How is the Qantassaurus different from other hypsilophodontids?

Head of Qantassaurus compared to Leaellynasaura (not to scale) The holotype of Qantassaurusconsists of a dentary found at the Flat Rocks site in the Strzelecki group of deposits near Inverloch in Victoria. It is distinguished from other hypsilophodontid species by having only 12 teeth in the lower jaw, whereas most other species had 14 or more.

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