First fossil facial tumor discovered in a dwarf duck-billed dinosaur from Transylvania
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 17:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
This is a reconstruction of the young, deformed Telmatosaurus individual, with the ameloblastoma just becoming visible on its lower left jaw. The first-ever record of a tumourous facial swelling found in a fossil has been discovered in the jaw of the dwarf dinosaur Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a type of primitive duck-billed dinosaur known as a hadrosaur.