Fylax

Fylax
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Holotype dentary from multiple angles
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Clade: Hadrosauromorpha
Genus: Fylax
Prieto-Márquez & Carrera Farias, 2021
Species:
F. thyrakolasus
Binomial name
Fylax thyrakolasus
Prieto-Márquez & Carrera Farias, 2021

Fylax (meaning "keeper") is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod from the Late Cretaceous Figuerola Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Fylax thyrakolasus, known from a nearly complete left dentary.[1]

  1. ^ Prieto-Márquez, Albert; Carrera Farias, Miguel (2021). "A new late-surviving early diverging Ibero-Armorican duck-billed dinosaur and the role of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago in hadrosauroid biogeography" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi:10.4202/app.00821.2020.

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