Pareisactus

DV-1076 · type species Pareisactus evrostos

Lived: 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Spain
Named by: Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019

Field notes

About Pareisactus

Pareisactus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Pareisactus, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Conques Formation. It was named by Párraga and Prieto-Márquez in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Rhabdodontoidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. Párraga and A. Prieto-Márquez. 2019. Pareisactus evrostos, a new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe. Zootaxa 4555(2):247-258