Dinosaur profile
Zalmoxes
HerbivoreLate CretaceousEuornithopod
Pronunciation
Zal-mocks-ees
Meaning
After the Dacian deity Zalmoxis
Type
Euornithopod
Length
2 - 3 meters long
Period
Late Cretaceous
Years
69 million years ago
Location
Romania
DietHerbivore
About Zalmoxes
Zalmoxes is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian of Romania. The genus is known from specimens first named as the species Mochlodon robustum in 1899 by Franz Nopcsa before being reclassified as Rhabdodon robustum by him in 1915.
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