Calvarius rapidus
"suffering"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Calvarius 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (66.1–66 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Calvarius — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.