Tethyshadros
Field photograph to come
Tethyshadros
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Telmatosauridae
- Found in
- Italy
- Named by
- Dalla Vecchia 2009
Field notes
About Tethyshadros
Tethyshadros was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Telmatosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tethyshadros, from Italy. Its fossils come from the Aurisina Formation. It was named by Dalla Vecchia in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Telmatosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Tethyshadros insularis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4):1100-1116