Genus
Valid Extinct

Tethyshadros

Dalla Vecchia 2009
Etymology De ''Tethys'', l’océan qui entourait l’île sur laquelle vivait ce dinosaure et ''hadros'' indiquant l’appartenance de cet animal aux hadrosauroïdes.

Tethyshadros is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Lipica Formation of Trieste, Italy. The type and only species is T. insularis.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Tethyshadros
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Tethyshadros insularis ‘Antonio’ in the Natural History Museum in Trieste (Italy) © JensKunstfreund · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Iguanodontia Infraorder
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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade
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Dryomorpha Unranked clade
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Ankylopollexia Unranked clade
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Styracosterna Unranked clade
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Hadrosauriformes Unranked clade
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Hadrosauroidea Unranked clade
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Telmatosauridae Family
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Tethyshadros Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇹 Italy
1
Geological formations
Aurisina
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Tethyshadros insularis 84 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Tethyshadros insularis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4):1100-1116
Bibliography (1)
F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Tethyshadros insularis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4):1100-1116