Transylvanosaurus
Field photograph to come
Transylvanosaurus
DV-1193
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Romania
- Named by
- Augustin et al. 2022
Field notes
About Transylvanosaurus
Transylvanosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Transylvanosaurus, from Romania. Its fossils come from the Pui Beds Formation. It was named by Augustin et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rhabdodontomorpha.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. J. Augustin, D. Bastiaans, and M. D. Dumbravă, Z. Csiki-Sava. 2022. A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(2):e2133610:1-23