Kunbarrasaurus

shield lizard

• kunbarra · Wangerriburra (Aboriginal Australian) · shield
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "kunbarra", the word for "shield" in the Wangerriburra language of the Aboriginal people of the Kunbarra region of Queensland, with the Greek "sauros" meaning lizard. It refers to the armoured, shield-bearing body of this small ankylosaur. The type species is Kunbarrasaurus ieversi, named for Ian Ievers, who found the specimen.

Named by

Leahey et al.

Year named

2015

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Albian

Found in

Allaru Mudstone, near Richmond, Queensland, Australia

A small, armoured ankylosaurian (thyreophoran) dinosaur. The specimen was originally referred to Minmi and was later described as its own genus.