Outline: a typical ankylosaur
Kunbarrasaurus
"shield lizard"
- Lived
- 106 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ankylosaurs
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Leahey et al. 2015
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Kunbarrasaurus
What it was like
Kunbarrasaurus was a small armored plant eater. It had bony plates and studs across its body, even on its belly, and a narrow head. Its skeleton is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in Australia.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in Australia. Its bones were found in the Toolebuc Formation, which formed on the floor of a shallow inland sea, so its body probably washed out to sea after death.
How it was found
For years the skeleton was thought to belong to another Australian ankylosaur. Leahey and colleagues gave it its own name in 2015. The first part of its name comes from a local language.
Close relatives
Other members of Parankylosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L. G. Leahey, R. E. Molnar, and K. Carpenter, L. M. Witmer, S. W. Salisbury. 2015. Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 3:e1475:1-47