#Europe's very own #dinosaurs: The enigmatic Late #Cretaceous rhabdodontids https://phys.org/news/2023-08-europe-dinosaurs-enigmatic-late-cretaceous.html

The Rhabdodontidae (Dinosauria, #Ornithischia), an enigmatic #dinosaur group endemic to the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago https://fr.pensoft.net/article/108967/

"#fossils of #rhabdodontids have only been found in Europe and only in rocks ranging in age from 86–66 million years ago, so they were endemic to the Late Cretaceous #EuropeanArchipelago."

Europe's very own dinosaurs: The enigmatic Late Cretaceous rhabdodontids

When you think of dinosaurs, you might automatically imagine iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. But at the same time when these were stomping on the ancient coastal plains of North America, some of their very distant cousins were reigning over Europe's lands.

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#NewSpecies of Iguanodontian #Dinosaur Identified in Spain https://www.sci.news/paleontology/calvarius-rapidus-12101.html

Evolutionary convergence in a small cursorial styracosternan ornithopod dinosaur from western #Europe https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2210632

"#CalvariusRapidus lived on the #IberoArmoricanIsland, which was made of parts of what is now #France, #Spain, and #Portugal, and was the biggest and westernmost island of the #EuropeanArchipelago. The species existed during the last 100,000 years before the end of the #Cretaceous period"