Probrachylophosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0930Judith River Fm., Montana

Probrachylophosaurus

DV-0930

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in
United States
Named by
Freedman Fowler and Horner 2015

Field notes

About Probrachylophosaurus

Probrachylophosaurus 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 Probrachylophosaurus, from Montana. Its fossils come from the Judith River Formation. It was named by Freedman Fowler and Horner in 2015.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. A. Freedman Fowler and J. R. Horner. 2015. A new brachylophosaurin hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an intermediate nasal crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of northcentral Montana. PLoS One 10(11):e0141304