Dinosaurs · Small ornithopod

Zalmoxes

Say it zal-moks-eez. The name means ‘Zalmoxes (Dacian deity)’.

Zalmoxes beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of small ornithopods

Length: 3 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Cretaceousabout 69 million years ago
Fossils found in: Romania
Named by: Nopcsa (1902)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ornithopoda › Euornithopoda › Iguanadontia › Rhabdodontidae

Where Zalmoxes sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Small ornithopods. Small, fast, two-legged plant-eaters. See all 12

Lived at the same time

Other small ornithopods

Orodromeus Late Cretaceous
Parksosaurus Late Cretaceous
Thescelosaurus Late Cretaceous
Gasparinisaura Late Cretaceous
Oryctodromeus Late Cretaceous
Leaellynasaura Early Cretaceous
Zephyrosaurus Early Cretaceous
Atlascopcosaurus Early Cretaceous

Source: Zalmoxes in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.