elopás

Elophas is a type of prehistoric hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, around 72 million years ago. Its name translates to "beautiful gelatinous body" in Greek, which refers to its unusual body shape.

Elophas fossils were first discovered in Montana, USA in 1912. The species is based on a single nearly complete skeleton, which allowed paleontologists to study its anatomy in detail. Elophas was a relatively small hadrosaurid, measuring around 3 meters in length and weighing approximately 100 kilograms.

One of the distinctive features of Elophas is its unique body shape, which was more lightly built than that of other hadrosaurs. Its skeleton showed several adaptations that suggest it lived in a coastal or marine environment. The hadrosaur's hands and feet had webbed digits, indicating that it was a capable swimmer.

Elophas was a herbivore and most likely ate a variety of aquatic plants, including those that grew in coastal areas. Its teeth were shaped for cropping and eating plant material, rather than for catching and eating fish.

Despite its interesting anatomy and unique features, Elophas remains a relatively poorly understood hadrosaurid species. Most of what we know about it comes from a single skeleton, and there is much that remains to be learned about its behavior, habitat, and evolution.