Augustynolophus
| Augustynolophus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma | |
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| Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Saurolophinae |
| Tribe: | †Saurolophini |
| Genus: | Augustynolophus Prieto-Márquez et al., 2014 |
| Species: | A. morrisi |
| Binomial name | |
| Augustynolophus morrisi Prieto-Márquez et al., 2014 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Saurolophus morrisi (Prieto-Márquez, 2013) | |
Augustynolophus is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur dinosaur which was discovered in the Moreno Formation in California, dating to the late Maastrichtian age.[1] It was originally described as a species of Saurolophus, S. morrisi.[2]
Limb elements
See also
References
- ↑ Albert Prieto-Márquez, Jonathan R. Wagner, Phil R. Bell and Luis M. Chiappe, 2014, "The late-surviving ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur Augustynolophus from the upper Maastrichtian of western North America and crest evolution in Saurolophini", Geological Magazine doi:10.1017/S0016756814000284
- ↑ Prieto-Márquez, A.; Wagner, J.R. (2013). "A new species of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Pacific coast of North America". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2): 255–268. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0049.
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