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New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania
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An international team of paleontologists from Romania, Hungary and Italy has identified a new genus and species of herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur from an incomplete skeleton unearthed in the Hațeg Basin, a bowl-shaped depression in the Carpathians of present-day Romania. The post New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
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J. Magyar, A. Ősi, and Z. Csiki-Sava, S. Budai, G. Botfalvai. 2026. New early Maastrichtian ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur from Hațeg Basin (Densuș-Ciula Formation, Romania) documents an endemic clade of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids in the south-eastern Late Cretaceous European Archipelago. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 24(1):2607800
DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2607800 ↗