An international team of scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur in Romania and named it after its unusually flat head - and the region where it was discovered, Transylvania. Herbivore Transylvanosaurus platycephalus, translating as 'flat-headed reptile from Transylvan
state its discovery disproves the widespread assumption that there was a low diversity of such animals in Europe during the LateSkull bones of theis described as “long”, and “widely splayed”, with “exceptionally wide frontals” – far wider than other members of the Rhabdodontidae family found in the same area – what was just as surprising to the scientists was why they foundIts nearest relatives have been found in what today is France.
. “They had powerful legs and a powerful tail. Most species, in particular reptiles, can swim from birth,” says Augustin. Another possibility is that various lines of rhabdodontid species evolved in parallel in eastern and western Europe. The team had only a few bones for the taxonomic classification, and none longer than twelve centimeters: the rear, lower part of the skull with the occipital foramen and two frontal bones.Transylvanosaurus
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