Transylvanosaurus
Sign in to saveTransylvanosaurus (meaning "lizard from across the forest") is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hateg Basin of Romania. The type species is Transylvanosaurus platycephalus, known from a fragmentary skull.
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Vinony files it under Dinosaur genera, Dinosaurs of Romania and Fossil taxa described in 2022.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Rhabdodontidae
- Named after
- Transylvania
- Image
- Holotype of Transylvanosaurus platycephalus.jpg
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- time period
- Maastrichtian
- location of discovery
- Romania
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Transylvanosaurus (meaning "lizard from across the forest") is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hateg Basin of Romania. The type species is Transylvanosaurus platycephalus, known from a fragmentary skull.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype specimen, LPB (FGGUB) R.2070, was found in 2007 in the 'Pui Beds' in the Bărbat River Valley section of Haţeg Basin, Hunedoara County, Romania. This locality is dated to the middle Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period. It consists of a fragmentary skull, including the articulated basicranium and articulated frontals.
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