Hungarosaurus (meaning Hungarian lizard) is an extinct genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Csehbánya Formation of the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary. The type species is Hungarosaurus tormai.
Discovery and naming[]
The species was named by Attila Ősi in 2005. The generic name is derived from Hungary and the Greek sauros, meaning lizard, while the specific name is named after András Torma, an amateur paleontologist who discovered the taxon.
Description[]
The length of Hungarosaurus has been estimated at about 4 to 4.5 meters. The skull of this dinosaur is estimated to have been 32–36 centimetres in length. It is from 450 bones, including portions of the skull, a fragmentary right mandible, three cervical vertebrae, six dorsal vertebrae, ten caudal vertebrae, ossified tendon fragments, three cervical and thirteen dorsal ribs, five chevrons, the left scapulocoracoid, right scapula, portions of the right manus, a partial pelvis, and more than one hundred osteoderms.
Classification[]
it is a basal member of the Nodosauridae.