Fylax thyrakolasus
"keeper"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fylax 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (66.052–66 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Fylax (meaning “keeper”) is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod from the Late Cretaceous Figuerola Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Fylax thyrakolasus, known from a nearly complete left dentary.
What we know
- Named by Prieto-Márquez & Carrera Farias, 2021.
- Fossils found in Spain.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Fylax — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.