Biology:Pareisactus

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles

Pareisactus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 67.5–66 Ma
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Rhabdodontidae
Genus: Pareisactus
Párraga et al., 2019
Type species
Pareisactus evrostos
Párraga et al., 2019

Pareisactus (from the Greek "pareisaktos", meaning "intruder", referring to being represented as a single element among hundreds of hadrosaurid bones) 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.[1] [2]

References

  1. Párraga, Javier; Prieto-Márquez, Albert (2019). "Pareisactus evrostos, a new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe". Zootaxa 4555 (2): 247–258. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4555.2.5. PMID 30790960. https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4555.2.5. 
  2. Magyar, J. et al. 2024. Rhabdodontid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) diversity suggested by the first documented occurrence of associated cranial and postcranial material at Vălioara (uppermost Cretaceous Densuș-Ciula Formation, Hațeg Basin, Romania), Cretaceous Research, Volume 156, April 2024, 105810, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105810

Wikidata ☰ Q61715420 entry