Zalmoxes

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Zalmoxes

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Infraorder:	Iguanodontia
Family:	Rhabdodontidae
Genus:	Zalmoxes Weishampel, Jianu, Csiki, and Norman, 2003

Species

Z robustus (Nopcsa, 1899 (originally Mochlodon)) (type)
Z. shqiperorum Weishampel et al., 2003

For the Dacian god, see Zalmoxis.

Reconstruction of the skull of Zalmoxes based on the parts of the skull which are known.

Zalmoxes was a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is classified as a rhabdodontid iguanodont. The type species is Z. robustus;^[1] another is described as Z. shqiperorum. Both species were found in Romania. Z. robustus was smaller, 2 to 3 meters long (7 to 10 ft). Z. shqiperorum was 4 to 4.5 meters long (13 to 15 ft). Additional material is known from Austria, formerly described as Mochlodon suessi.

[edit] References

^ Weishampel, D. B., C.-M. Jianu, Z. Csiki, and D. B. Norman. (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.