Calvarius rapidus Calvarius
"suffering"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Calvarius 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (66.1–66 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Calvarius (meaning “suffering”) is an extinct genus of styracosternan ornithopod from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) Talarn Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Calvarius rapidus, known from a single . The slender morphology of this bone may indicate Calvarius had a cursorial (adapted to run) ecology, in contrast to its slower-moving relatives.
What we know
- Named by Prieto-Márquez & Sellés, 2023.
- Fossils found in Spain.