Dinosauria›Ornithischia
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Calvarius Calvarius rapidus Prieto-Márquez and Sellés 2023
/kælvˈɛɹɪəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Spain
Region
Lleida
Formation
Talarn
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Calvarius rapidus is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 72.2–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Lleida, Spain. It was named by Prieto-Márquez and Sellés 2023. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Calvarius rapidus sits in deep time
Calvarius
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Calvarius rapidus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.