Qantas (genus)

For the commercial airline based in Australia, see Qantas.

Qantas is a genus of trematosauroid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found from the Kamennyi Yar Formation in Borsky District, Samara Oblast. The type species Qantas samarensis was named in 2012 and placed in the family Benthosuchidae, as it was viewed as a close relative of Benthosuchus. The subfamily Qantasinae was established to include Qantas, and possibly the genus Tirraturhinus. Qantas is named after the Australian airline Qantas, which supported the original study of the fossils.^[1]

Qantas Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapoda
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Suborder:	†Stereospondyli
Subfamily:	†Qantasinae Novikov, 2012
Genus:	†Qantas Novikov, 2012
Type species
†Qantas samarensis Novikov, 2012

Phylogeny

Qantas in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included:^[2]

Temnospondyli Luzocephalus Capitosauridae Samarabatrachus Parotosuchus Poryolosuchus Selenocara Wetlugasaurus Vladlenosaurus Quantas Syrtosuchus Benthosuchus Yarengiidae Vyborosaurus Yarengia Trematosauridae Prothoosuchus Thoosuchus Trematotegmen Angusaurus Inflectosaurus Trematosaurus

Lydekkerinidae Qantasidae Benthosuchidae