New herbivorous dinosaur species discovered in Romania’s Hațeg UNESCO Geopark

Paleontologists from the University of Bucharest and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur in Romania’s Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark. The dinosaur, which lived around 70 million years ago, has been named Kryptohadros kallaiae.

Researchers said the species was related to other dinosaurs discovered in southeastern Europe, including Telmatosaurus from Romania and Tethyshadros from Italy, the University of Bucharest announced. Together, these species form a distinct group of hadrosauroids called Telmatosauridae, which evolved on islands that made up southeastern Europe during the Late Cretaceous period.