Adelolophus
Field photograph to come
Adelolophus
DV-0877 · type species Adelolophus hutchisoni
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Gates et al. 2014
Field notes
About Adelolophus
Adelolophus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Adelolophus, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Wahweap Formation. It was named by Gates et al. in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. A. Gates, Z. Jinnah, and C. Levitt, M. A. Getty. 2014. New hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) specimens from the lower-middle Campanian Wahweap Formation of southern Utah. Hadrosaurs