Zalmoxes
Zalmoxes is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania. It was a relative of Iguanodon and, like all its order, it was a herbivore.
| Zalmoxes Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous 70–65 mya
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Most of the skeleton is known with exception of the end of the tail, the hands and the feet.[1]
Zalmoxes Media
Skull of Zalmoxes shqiperorum
Illustrations of Z. robustus and Z. shqiperorum in scale
Zalmoxes robustus (purple) compared in size to a human and other iguanodonts
Articulated sacrum of Zalmoxes
References
- ↑ Weishampel D.B. et al. 2003. Osteology and phylogeny of Zalmoxes (n.g.), an unusual Euornithopod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1(2): 65–123