Tethyshadros Tethyshadros

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tethyshadros 3.6 m (11.8 ft) long
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Length
3.6 m (11.8 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (81.5–80.5 Mya)
Place
Italy
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Telmatosauridae

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.