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beaked plant-eater
Fylax
Say it like this: “FYE-laks”
Fylax thyrakolasus
Fylax ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Prieto-Márquez, A.; Carrera Farias, M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4.2 m · 14 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Spain · Figuerola
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauromorpha
The story in short
The genus Fylax dates to 2021, the year A. Prieto-Márquez and M. Carrera Farias described it.
Fossils referred to Fylax date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Figuerola Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Fylax at a length near 4.2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauromorpha, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bactrosaurus
Bactrosaurus johnsoni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Claosaurus
Claosaurus agilis
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian · Santonian) · roughly 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago
Eolambia
Eolambia caroljonesa
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago