Lophorhothon
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Lophorhothon
DV-0185 · type species Lophorhothon atopus
- Lived
- 86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 4.5 m (15 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Langston 1960
Field notes
About Lophorhothon
Lophorhothon was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Lophorhothon, from Alabama. Its fossils come from the Mooreville Chalk Formation. It was named by Langston in 1960.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Lophorhothon?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. Langston. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part VI. The dinosaurs. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(6):315-361