Fylax, New Hadrosauroid of Latest Cretaceous Spain

[Dynomikegojira]

Fylax thyrakolasus is a late surviving non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid found in Spain. Rhis species fell under the radar but I know a lot of ornithopod fans will be thrived to see a new species.

http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app008212020.html

[Newt]

Neat! I wish there were more of it, obviously, but it's interesting that "primitive" hadrosauroids were able to survive so late in Europe, even in the presence of hadrosaurids proper, when they seem to have vanished by that time in the hadrosaurid-dominated ecosystems of western North America (and maybe the east too, but who knows with the scrappy Cretaceous record of Appalachia?).