Genus
Valid Extinct

Pareisactus

Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019

Pareisactus is a genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Conquès Member of the Tremp Formation in the Southern Pyrenees of Spain. The type and only species is P. evrostos, known only from a single scapula.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Pareisactus
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Diagram of scapula of Pareisactus evrostos MCD 5371 © IJReid · 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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Rhabdodontomorpha Unranked clade
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Rhabdodontoidea Unranked clade
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Pareisactus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Conques
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Pareisactus evrostos 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J. Párraga and A. Prieto-Márquez. 2019. Pareisactus evrostos, a new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe. Zootaxa 4555(2):247-258 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. Párraga and A. Prieto-Márquez. 2019. Pareisactus evrostos, a new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe. Zootaxa 4555(2):247-258 DOI ↗