Zalmoxes

Zalmoxes
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
70–66 Ma
Skeleton
Skeleton of Zalmoxes shqiperorum in Brussels
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Rhabdodontidae
Genus: Zalmoxes
Weishampel et al. 2003
Type species
Zalmoxes robustus
Species
  • Z. robustus (Nopcsa, 1899)
  • Z. shqiperorum Weishampel et al., 2003
Synonyms

Zalmoxes is a genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Romania. The genus is known from specimens first named as the species Mochlodon robustum in 1899 by Franz Nopcsa before being reclassified as Rhabdodon robustum by him in 1915. In 1990, this name was corrected to Rhabdodon robustus by George Olshevsky and, in 2003, the species was once more reclassified as the type species Zalmoxes robustus. Zalmoxes refers to the Dacian deity Zalmoxis and robustus refers to the robustness of the remains. Also in 2003, another species was named, Zalmoxes shqiperorum, named for the Albanian name for Albanians.