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The newly discovered small ornithopod Transylvanosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Romania lived alongside turtles, crocodiles, other small dinosaurs and the giant pterosaur Hatzegopteryx on the ancient volcanic island of Hateg.

Commission for press release, 2022, digital art by Peter Nickolaus.
Featured in CNN, BBC, Tagesschau and others:

Newly identified dinosaur that lived on island of dwarfed creatures had an unusual head | CNN 

Dinosaur with strange head lived on an island of miniature creatures - BBC Newsround 

Fund in Rumänien: Forscher entdecken neue Dinosaurierart | tagesschau.de 

The turtle Solnhofia dives into the turquoise waters of a tropical sea, while Pterodactylus soars above the surface and the marine crocodylomorph Dakosaurus hunts between the sponge reefs. The warm waters are home to a variety of sea creatures, for example crinoids like the floating feather star Saccocoma, arthropods like the horseshoe crab Mesolimulus, and cephalopods like the ammonite Lithacoceras, as well as a multitude of fishes like Thrissops, Gyrodus and the coelacanth Undina. 

Commission for press release, 2023, digital art by Peter Nickolaus.
Featured in New York Times, CNN, and others:

A Pancaked Turtle Fossil’s 150-Million-Year-Old Tale - The New York Times (nytimes.com) 

Big-headed Jurassic sea turtle’s fossil is the most complete ever found | CNN 

Life reconstructions and size comparison of three rhabdodontids. From left to right: Mochlodon suessi from eastern Austria (the smallest member of the group), Rhabdodon priscus from southern France (the largest member of the group), and Transylvanosaurus platycephalus from western Romania (the most recently named member of the group). 

Commission for press release, 2023, digital art by Peter Nickolaus.
Featured in Popular Science, Science et vie, and others:

'Rod tooth’ dinosaurs were critical to Europe in the Late Cretaceous | Popular Science 

Les rhabdodontidés : ces énigmatiques dinosaures européens