Probrachylophosaurus
Field photograph to come
Probrachylophosaurus
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- 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
80 million years ago
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