Telmatosaurus

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Telmatosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Ornithopoda Family: Hadrosauridae Genus: Telmatosaurus Nopcsa, 1903
Species
T. transylvanicus Nopcsa, 1903 (type)

Telmatosaurus (meaning "marsh lizard") was a genus of basal hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a relatively small hadrosaur, approximately 5 meters (16 ft) long, found in what is now Romania. The type species, Telmatosaurus transylvanicus, was described by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, in 1903.

[edit] References

• Telmatosaurus in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair