Zalmoxes
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| Zalmoxes Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous 70–65 mya |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Ornithopoda |
| Infraorder: | Iguanodontia |
| Family: | Rhabdodontidae |
| Genus: | 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.
Most of the skeleton is known with exception of the end of the tail, the hands and the feet.[1]
References [change]
- ↑ 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
