Kryptohadros
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Kryptohadros
DV-1309 · type species Kryptohadros kallaiae
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Telmatosauridae
- Found in
- Romania
- Named by
- Magyar et al. 2026
Field notes
About Kryptohadros
Kryptohadros was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Telmatosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Kryptohadros, from Romania. Its fossils come from the Densuș-Ciula Formation. It was named by Magyar et al. in 2026.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Telmatosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. Magyar, A. Ősi, and Z. Csiki-Sava, S. Budai, G. Botfalvai. 2026. New early Maastrichtian ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur from Hațeg Basin (Densuș-Ciula Formation, Romania) documents an endemic clade of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids in the south-eastern Late Cretaceous European Archipelago. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 24(1):2607800