Prosaurolophus

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Prosaurolophus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Infraorder:	Iguanodontia
Superfamily:	Hadrosauroidea
Family:	Hadrosauridae
Subfamily:	Hadrosaurinae
Tribe:	Saurolophini
Genus:	Prosaurolophus

Species

P. maximus
P. blackfeetensis

Prosaurolophus was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a hadrosaur around 29 feet in length and 12 feet in height. This dinosaur weighed 2 tons and appeared around 75 mya in western North America.

The type species is P. maximus, described by Barnum Brown in 1916. A second species, P. blackfeetensis, was described by Jack Horner in 1992.