Dinosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide Q

Ben Creisler

Qantassaurus Rich & Vickers-Rich 1999 "QANTAS (Airlines) lizard"

KWAHN-tuh-SAWR-us (QANTAS (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) named "in honor of QANTAS Airlines for their long term support of dinosaur research and exhibitions" in Australia; for a small (probably around 2 m (6.5 ft) long) hypsilophodont, known only from a left dentary bone with at least one tooth preserved (Holotype: NMV P199075 (National Museum of Victoria)), and two other dentaries with teeth, found in the Early Cretaceous (early Aptian) Wonthaggi Formation, Strzelecki Group, from Bunurong Marine Park, Victoria, Australia. Qantassaurus has an extremely foreshortened jaw, contrasting with the more elongated jaws thought to below to Atlascopcosaurus; the two incompletely known genera of Australian hypsilophodonts have similar-looking ridged cheekteeth, however.

Type Species: Qantassaurus intrepidus [in-TREP-i-duhs] Rich & Vickers-Rich 1999: "intrepid, brave," probably referring to the survival of this small dinosaur in what was a polar region during the Mesozoic in southern Australia. Ornithopoda Hypsilophodontidae Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Aus. [added 12/99]

Qinlingosaurus Xue, Zhang & Bi 1996 "Qin Ling (Mountain) lizard"

chin-ling-o-SAWR-us (Chin. Qin Ling (from Qin, another name for Shaaxi Province) + ling "mountain range") + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) named for the Qin Ling mountains, in southern Shaanxi Province, China. A sauropod, based mainly on the remains of a pelvis, with a long, thin ilium, a long pubic peduncle and a large acetabulum, plus 3 vertebrae; found in the Late Cretaceous Hongtuling Formation, in the Hongtuling Mountain Range, near Luonan in southern Shaanxi Province. Type species: Qinlingosaurus luonanensis [lwuh-nah-NEN-sis] "from Luonan" Sauropoda i.s. L. Cret. China

Quaesitosaurus Kurzanov & Bannikov 1983 "extraordinary lizard"

kwee-SIET-o-SAWR-us (Lat. quaesitus "uncommon, extraordinary" + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) named for its unusual skull, in particular "the inclined canal at the base of the occipital bone, opening into the pituitary depression. There is nothing similar...in any of the sauropods in general." Only the skull is currently known. Sauropoda Dicraeosauridae L. Cret. Mongolia

Quilmesaurus Coria 2001 "Quilme lizard"

keel-may-SAWR-us (Quilme (name of a Native American people) + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) named for the indigenous Quilme people of Argentina (also the namesake of a brand of Argentine beer) to indicate a dinosaur found in Rio Negro Province. Quilmesaurus is a medium-size theropod (estimated about 5-6 m (16-20 ft) long) with unique features in the shape of the bones in its knee; known only from hind leg bones (distal part of a right femur and a complete right tibia) (Holotype: MPCA-PV-100 (Museo Provincial Carlos Ameghino, Rio Negro Province)) found in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Allen Formation at Salitral Ojo de Aqua, south of Roca City, in Rio Negro Province, Argentina. The femur has a strong, unusually well developed mediodistal crest; the tibia has a hook-shaped cnemial crest, with a notch on the articular surface of the distal end. The facet for the ascending process of the astragulus is only 16% of the length of the tibia, indicating a more primitive condition than in other Cretaceous theropods. The low facet for the ascending process and the fossa on the distal articular surface of the tibia link this theropod with other tetanuran theropods from South America such as Giganotosaurus.

Type Species: Quilmesaurus curriei [KUHR-ee-ie] Coria 2001: for Phil Currie, noted Canadian paleontologist. Theropoda Tetanurae? Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) SA [added 8-2001]