Saurolophus

Saurolophus osborni

Saurolophus — reconstrução científica

Saurolophus foi um hadrosauro herbívoro do Cretáceo, descrito por Barnum Brown. Viveu há aproximadamente 70.0-68.0 milhões de anos, na região do que hoje é Canadá. Medindo de 9.0-13.0 m, pesando 2.0-4.0 tons, era um representante característico da fauna mesozoica.

Saurolophus (; meaning "lizard crest") is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period of North America and Asia, in what is now the Horseshoe Canyon and Nemegt formations respectively (about 71.5 to 66 million years ago). It is one of the few dinosaur genera known from multiple continents. The type species, S. osborni, was described by Barnum Brown in 1912 from Canadian fossils. A second valid species, S. angustirostris, is represented by numerous specimens from Mongolia, and was described by Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky. Saurolophus is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back from the skull. It was a herbivorous dinosaur which could move either bipedally or quadrupedally.

Família
Hadrosauridae
Ordem
Ornithischia
Período
Cretaceous (70.0-68.0 MYA)
Dieta
Herbivore
Comprimento
9.0-13.0 m
Peso
2.0-4.0 tons

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