Fylax
Name: Fylax
(Keeper).
Phonetic: Fie-laks.
Named By: Albert Prieto-M�rquez & Miguel
Carrera Farias - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauromorpha.
Species: F. thyrakolasus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Spain, Lleida Province -
Figuerola Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Left dentary.
Fylax
is a genus of hadrosauromorph dinosaur that lived in Western Europe
during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A primitive euhadrosaurian dinosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous
of the Ager syncline (southern Pyrenees, Catalonia). -
Geologie en Mijnbouw 78: 345–356. - M. L. Casanovas,
X. P Pereda Suberbiola, J. V. Santaf� & D. B.
Weishampel - 1999.
- A new late-surviving early diverging Ibero-Armorican duck-billed
dinosaur and the role of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago in
hadrosauroid biogeography. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66.
- Albert Prieto-M�rquez & Miguel Carrera Farias -
2021.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Random favourites
 |
 |
 |