Transylvanosaurus
"lizard from across the forest"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Transylvanosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Transylvanosaurus (meaning “lizard from across the forest”) is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hateg Basin of Romania. The type species is Transylvanosaurus platycephalus, known from a fragmentary skull.
What we know
- Named by Augustin et al., 2022.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Transylvanosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.