Telmatosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Telmatosaurus"

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image_width = 240px
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Ornithopoda
familia = Hadrosauridae
genus = "Telmatosaurus"
genus_authority=Nopcsa, 1903
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"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.

References

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7a89b.htm "Telmatosaurus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair