Pareisactus

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Pareisactus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 67.5–66 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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.