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

Citation

Magyar, J.; Ősi, A.; Csiki-Sava, Z.; Budai, S.; Botfalvai, G. (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. Informa UK Limited. doi:10.1080/14772019.2025.2607800

Names first published here

• Kryptohadros genus
• Kryptohadros kallaiae species

Cited by genera

• Kryptohadros

  Erects Kryptohadros kallaiae and names the clade Telmatosauridae.

• Penelopognathus

  Places Penelopognathus in an East Asian clade of non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids.

• Riabininohadros

  Treats Riabininohadros as falling outside Hadrosauroidea.

• Telmatosaurus

  Described new Hațeg duck-billed dinosaur, grouping Telmatosaurus with Tethyshadros and Kryptohadros.

• Tethyshadros

  Recovered Tethyshadros as a derived hadrosauromorph within the newly named clade Telmatosauridae.