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Polar Dinosaurs are a hot topic in the Paleocommunity (or should i say "cold topic"?), as well as in the academic researches. Mostly people will think about Nanuqsaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus when asked about his topic, but the real polar dinosaurs lived in Australia! While Nanuq and Pachyrhino indeed lived north of the Artic circle, the Late Cretaceous was marked by a relative warm climate, while the Jurassic and begging of the Cretaceous experienced cold climates and even Ice Ages! This is the time interval that we found Qantassaurus, the Early cretaceous of Southern Australia, that was still conected to Antarctica at this point. Qantassaurus is a Elasmarian, a group of small to medium sizes "basal" ornithischians that inhabited Gondwana, remarkably Southern South America, Antarctica and Australia. This distribution of Elasmarian ornithischian contributed to the creation of the Weddelian Bioprovince, that includes Southern Patagonia, Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand and still exists today.
I choose to reconstruct Qantassaurus feathered, in the light of the description of Kulindadromeus, a basal ornithischian that displays differente types of integument, among them Feathers and scales, reinforcing the ideia that all dinosaurs (and possibly Ornithodirans as a whole) are ancestraly feathered. Beyond that, the Upper Strzelecki Group, sometimes refered as Wonthaggi formation, is thought to be a polar region, located south of the Antartic circle and there are possible permafrost records from this formation. Living around Qantassarus there were other Elasmarians, such as Galleonosaurus and unnamed forms, Parankylosaurs like Serendipaceratops, Noasaurids, basal Megaraptorids and the last surviving temnospondyl: Koolasuchus.
This drawing is really late, and should have been posted in between the Christmas and New Year's Ever. I will try to post more regularly.
Based in the Sektensaurus reconstruction by RockerDreamer95.

Description
Polar Dinosaurs are a hot topic in the Paleocommunity (or should i say "cold topic"?), as well as in the academic researches. Mostly people will think about Nanuqsaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus when asked about his topic, but the real polar dinosaurs lived in Australia! While Nanuq and Pachyrhino indeed lived north of the Artic circle, the Late Cretaceous was marked by a relative warm climate, while the Jurassic and begging of the Cretaceous experienced cold climates and even Ice Ages! This is the time interval that we found Qantassaurus, the Early cretaceous of Southern Australia, that was still conected to Antarctica at this point. Qantassaurus is a Elasmarian, a group of small to medium sizes "basal" ornithischians that inhabited Gondwana, remarkably Southern South America, Antarctica and Australia. This distribution of Elasmarian ornithischian contributed to the creation of the Weddelian Bioprovince, that includes Southern Patagonia, Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand and still exists today.
I choose to reconstruct Qantassaurus feathered, in the light of the description of Kulindadromeus, a basal ornithischian that displays differente types of integument, among them Feathers and scales, reinforcing the ideia that all dinosaurs (and possibly Ornithodirans as a whole) are ancestraly feathered. Beyond that, the Upper Strzelecki Group, sometimes refered as Wonthaggi formation, is thought to be a polar region, located south of the Antartic circle and there are possible permafrost records from this formation. Living around Qantassarus there were other Elasmarians, such as Galleonosaurus and unnamed forms, Parankylosaurs like Serendipaceratops, Noasaurids, basal Megaraptorids and the last surviving temnospondyl: Koolasuchus.
This drawing is really late, and should have been posted in between the Christmas and New Year's Ever. I will try to post more regularly.
Based in the Sektensaurus reconstruction by RockerDreamer95.