Find new species of herbivorous dinosaurs, like what?

KOMPAS.com- An international research team has discovered the species dinosaur previously unknown in western Romania. This new species of dinosaur is named after Transylvanosaurus platycephalus.

Transylvanosaurus platycephalus known to be a dinosaur herbivore lived about 70 million years ago. The name itself literally means “Transylvanian flat-headed reptile”.

a part from that Transylvanosaurus platycephalus It is about two meters long, walks on two legs and belongs to the Rhabdodontidae family.

The skull bones belong Transylvanosaurus platycephalus According to the researchers, the findings also offer insights European evolution shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Quoted from physicist, Saturday (26/11/2022) Europe is a tropical archipelago during the Cretaceous period which lasted from 145 million years to 66 million years ago.

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Transylvanosaurus platycephalus they lived on one of the many islands along with other species of pygmy dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, and giant flying pterosaurs that had wingspans of up to ten meters.

“With each new species discovered, we disprove the widespread belief that late Cretaceous fauna was poorly diverse in Europe,” said Felix Augustin, study leader and paleontologist at the University of Tübingen.

However, what then a new species of herbivorous dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus Does this come to Transylvania?

Researchers suspect that sea level fluctuations and tectonic processes created temporary land bridges between the many islands and may have encouraged the spread of these animals.

Moreover, it can be assumed that almost all dinosaur species could swim to some extent, incl Transylvanosaurus platycephalus.

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