Augustynolophus
Field photograph to come
Augustynolophus
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Prieto-Márquez et al. 2015
Field notes
About Augustynolophus
Augustynolophus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Augustynolophus, from California. Its fossils come from the Moreno Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez et al. in 2015.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez, J. R. Wagner, and P. R. Bell, L. M. Chiappe. 2015. The late-surviving ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur Augustynolophus from the upper Maastrichtian of western North America and crest evolution in Saurolophini. Geological Magazine 152:225-241