Telmatosaurus

Pronunciation:
tel-ma-toh-sore-us
Name meaning:
'swamp lizard'
Type of dinosaur:
large ornithopod
Length:
5.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 84–66 million years ago
Found in:
France,
Romania,
Spain

Telmatosaurus is known from fragmentary remains.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae
Named by:
Nopcsa (1900)
Type species:
transsylvanicus

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