Kryptohadros
| Kryptohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Life reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Telmatosauridae |
| Genus: | †Kryptohadros Magyar et al., 2026 |
| Species: | †K. kallaiae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kryptohadros kallaiae Magyar et al., 2026
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Kryptohadros (lit. 'hidden hadrosauroid') is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) Densuș-Ciula Formation of Romania. The genus contains a single species, Kryptohadros kallaiae, known from a partial skull and skeleton. Phylogenetic analyses revealed Kryptohadros is closely related to the coeval Transylvanian Telmatosaurus and the Italian Tethyshadros, together forming a group of southeastearn European-endemic taxa, called the Telmatosauridae. Kryptohadros is the second named non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid from the Hațeg Basin, following Telmatosaurus, which was named by Franz Nopcsa in 1903.