Kryptohadros

Kryptohadros
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Ornithopoda
Clade: †Telmatosauridae
Genus: †Kryptohadros
Magyar et al., 2026
Species:
†K. kallaiae
Binomial name
†Kryptohadros kallaiae
Magyar et al., 2026

Kryptohadros (lit. 'hidden hadrosauroid') is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) Densuș-Ciula Formation of Romania. The genus contains a single species, Kryptohadros kallaiae, known from a partial skull and skeleton. Phylogenetic analyses revealed Kryptohadros is closely related to the coeval Transylvanian Telmatosaurus and the Italian Tethyshadros, together forming a group of southeastearn European-endemic taxa, called the Telmatosauridae. Kryptohadros is the second named non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid from the Hațeg Basin, following Telmatosaurus, which was named by Franz Nopcsa in 1903.