Kunbarrasaurus ieversi Leahey et al. 2015 (ankylosaur)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: L. G. Leahey, R. E. Molnar, K. Carpenter, L. M. Witmer, and 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

Belongs to Kunbarrasaurus according to P. R. Bell et al. 2017

See also Kineer et al. 2016, Leahey et al. 2015, Maidment et al. 2021 and Sakagami and Kawabe 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QM F18101, a skeleton (a near-complete ankylosaurian dinosaur specimen that includes most of the skull and mandible, along with an articulated postcranium). Its type locality is Marathon Station, Flinders River (QM), which is in an Albian basinal (carbonate) lime mudstone in the Toolebuc Formation of Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Marathon Station, Flinders River (QM)

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