Genus: Ferenceratops MAIDMENT, BUTLER, BRUSATTE, MEADE, AUGUSTIN, CSIKI-SAVA & ÖSI, 2026
Etymology: From Ferenc, the birth name of Franz Nopcsa, who identified the dinosaurs of the Hateg Basin, including the holotype specimen NHMUK PV R4900, and was one of the most important and influnetial palaeontologist of the early twentienth century.
Species: shqiperorum (WEISHAMPEL, JIANU, CSIKI & NORMAN,2003) MAIDMENT, BUTLER, BRUSATTE, MEADE, AUGUSTIN, CSIKI-SAVA & ÖSI, 2026
Etymology: Named for the people of Shqiperia, the Albanians’ own name
for their land. Shqiperia was probably derived from the Albanian ‘shqipe’ (eagle)
which, modified to shqipria, became ‘the land of the eagle.’ Z.
shqiperorum forms a connection between ancient Illyria (Albania) and Nopcsa’s
fascination with this land and its tribes, to Geta (Thrace) and finally, to
Dacia (Ancient Romania), the home of Zalmoxes.
= Zalmoxes shqiperorumWEISHAMPEL, JIANU, CSIKI & NORMAN, 2003
= Rhabdodon priscum (= Mochlodon robustum) NOPCSA, 1915 (partim)
= Rhabdodon priscum NOPCSA, 1925 (partim)
Holotype: NHMUK R. (old BMNH) 4900
Locality: Vurpar, near vintu de Jos, Sibisel Valley, south of Sanpetru, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Horizon: Sinpetru Formation (old Unnamed formation [‘Bozes strata’]).
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Left dentary, sacrum, right scapula, right coracoid, partial ?left ilium, right ischium, left distal ischium and left femur.
Note: A left femoral midshaft also catalogued as BMNH R.4900 is too small to belong to this individual.
Zalmoxes shqiperorum Holotype NHMUK R4900 after CZEPINSKI & MADZIA, 2025: A) dorsal and B) right lateral view.
Referred material:
CODREA, VREMIR, JIPA, GODEFROIT, CSIKI, SMITH & FARCAS, 2010
UBB VP 19: Right tibia.
Locality: No locality data,Valiora, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Horizon: Probably from the Densus Ciula Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
NHMUK R. (old BMNH) 5491: Left dentary.
Locality: Sibisel Valley, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Horizon: Sanpetru Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
MCDRD 66: Right femur.
Note: Formerly referred to Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus.MCDRD 77: 2 left ischia.
MCDRD 208, 234: Left femur.
MCDRD 418: A proximal humerus.
Locality: Valioara, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Horizon: Densus Ciula Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
FGGUG R.1087-1133, R.1355-1357: A partial postcranial skeleton of a juvenile.
Locality: Tustea nesting site, Hateg Basin, Hunedoara County, Western Romania.Horizon: Densus-Ciula Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
FGGUB R.1640: Left dentary.
GODEFROIT, CODERA & WEISHAMPEL, 2009
Locality: Nalat-Vad, Hateg Basin, Transylvania, Romania.
Horizon: Sanpetru Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
GODEFROIT, CODERA & WEISHAMPEL, 2009
Locality: Nalat-Vad, Hateg Basin, Transylvania, Romania.
Horizon: Sanpetru Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
UBB NVZ1: Coracoid.
UBB NVZ-22: Ulna.
UBB NVZ1-1, 2: Dentary, coronoid, and surangular.
UBB NVZ1-3 through 7, 12, 13, 15, NVZ-7: Dorsal vertebrae.
UBB NVZ1-8, 14, NVZ-8, 15, 16: Caudal vertebrae.
UBB NVZ1-9, 10, 11, UBB SPZ-2: Sacrum.
UBB NVZ1-16, 17, UBB SPZ-2: Ilium.
UBB NVZ1-18, 21, 22, UBB SPZ-2: Ischium.
UBB NVZ1-21, 24, NVZ2-2: Scapula.
UBB NVZ1-25, NVZ-1, NVZ2-5, NBZ2-6, NVZ-9, NVZ-21: Femur.
UBB NBZ1-28: Fibula.
UBB NVZ1-31: Jugal.
UBB NVZ1-33: Squamosal, supraoccipital, and parietal.
UBB NVZ1-35: Predentary.
UBB NVZ1-38: Frontal.
UBB NVZ1-39: Quadrate.
UBB NVZ1-40: Quadrate.
UBB NVZ1-41: Postorbital.
UBB NVZ1-43: Teeth.
UBB NVZ2-3, 4, NVZ-5: Humerus.
UBB NBZ-2, 3: Tibia.
UBB SPZ-2: Pubis.
BRUSATTE, DUMBRAVA, VREMIR, CISKI-SAVA, TOTOIANU & NORELL, 2017
LPB (FGGUB) R.2164: Almost complete, well-preservd left scapula.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2167: Proximal left femur fragment.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2349: Partial left dentary, and incomplete first sacral vertebra.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2331: A midshaft fragment of a leeft femur.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2403: A well-preserved porximal end of a right scapula.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2407: Proximal end of a left tibia.
LPB (FGGGUB) R.2408: Proxial end of a left femur.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2409: Proximal end of a left femur.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2410: A large left femur.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2411; Posterior end of a left mandibular ramus (partial dentary with 2 instu teeth and 2 displaded teeth.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2413: Well-preserved distal end of a right metatarsal III.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2499: Nealry complete left fibula.
LPB (FGGUB) R.2592: A dentary tooth, a minute (possibly maxillary tooth) tooth crown fragment, a portion of the right ulna, a nealry comlpete left femur, the proximal end of a rgith femur, a proximal right fibula fragment, and a left metatarsal.
CSIKI-SAVA, VREMIR, VASILE, BRUSATTE, DYKE, NAISH, NORELL, & TOTOIANU, 2015
LPG (FGGUB) R.2411: Posterior part of left dentary.