Taleta
Field photograph to come
Taleta
DV-1288 · type species Taleta taleta
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Morocco
- Named by
- Longrich et al. 2025
Field notes
About Taleta
Taleta was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Taleta, from Morocco. Its fossils come from the Couche III Formation. It was named by Longrich et al. in 2025.
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 Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: N. R. Longrich, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and N. Bardet, N. Jalil. 2025. A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines. Gondwana Research 145(78):142-151