Telmatosaurus Telmatosaurus
"marsh lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Telmatosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Telmatosauridae
Telmatosaurus (meaning “marsh lizard”) is a genus of basal hadrosauromorph dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. It was relatively small for its group, measuring approximately 5 m in length and 600 kg in body mass, which has been explained as an instance of insular dwarfism.
What we know
- Named by Nopcsa, 1903.
- Body length estimated at about 5 m.