| Transylvanosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Rhabdodontidae |
| Genus: | †Transylvanosaurus Augustin et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †T. platycephalus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Transylvanosaurus platycephalus Augustin et al., 2022
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Transylvanosaurus (meaning "lizard from across the forest") is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hateg Basin of Romania. The type species is Transylvanosaurus platycephalus, known from a fragmentary skull.[1]
- ^ Augustin, Felix J.; Bastiaans, Dylan; Dumbravă, Mihai D.; Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2022-11-23). "A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (2): e2133610. Bibcode:2022JVPal..42E3610A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2133610. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 253964320.