Fylax
Field photograph to come
Fylax
DV-1136 · type species Fylax thyrakolasus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Prieto-Márquez and Carrera Farias 2021
Field notes
About Fylax
Fylax was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Fylax, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Figuerola Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez and Carrera Farias in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez and M. Á. Carrera Farias. 2021. A new late-surviving early diverging Ibero-Armorican duck-billed dinosaur and the role of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago in hadrosauroid biogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66(2):425-435