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Telmatosauridae

Tethyshadros

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tethyshadros 3.6 m (11.8 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Tethyshadros
Length
3.6 m (11.8 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (81.5–80.5 Mya)
Place
Italy
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Telmatosauridae
Tethyshadros reconstruction by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)
Reconstruction · Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) (CC-BY)

Tethyshadros (“Tethyan hadrosauroid”) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Lipica Formation (previously thought to come from the younger informal “Liburnia Formation”) of Trieste, Italy. The type and only species is T. insularis.

What we know

  • Named by Dalla Vecchia, 2009.
  • Body length estimated at about 3.6 m.
  • Fossils found in Italy.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Tethyshadros — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.