Please welcome Cariocecus bocagei! A new, basal hadrosauroid from the early Cret. of Portugal! This guy is known from a pretty nice skull, which makes it one of the best ornithopod fossils from Iberia so far! Besides being a pretty skull it enabled the most detailed reconstruction of a dinosaurs inner ear yet and also has a prominent supraorbital bone that gives it such a mean look. I loved doing this little portrait for main author Filippo Bertozzo, very exited for it since I learned about it!
Cariocecus bocagei, a new basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal Filippo Bertozzo et al.

















