Pareisactus evrostos Pareisactus

"intruder"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pareisactus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Europe · Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Pareisactus (from the Greek “pareisaktos”, meaning “intruder”, referring to being represented as a single element among hundreds of hadrosaurid bones) is a genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (lower Maastrichtian) Conquès Member of the Tremp Formation in the Southern Pyrenees of Spain. The type and only species is P. evrostos, known only from a single scapula.

What we know

  • Named by Párraga et al., 2019.
  • Fossils found in Europe and Spain.