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beaked plant-eater
Adelolophus
Say it like this: “ah-DELL-o-LOW-fuhs”
Adelolophus hutchisoni
Adelolophus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2014 · Gates, T. A.; Jinnah, Z.; Levitt, C.; Getty, M. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 8.2 m · 27 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Wahweap
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Adelolophus dates to 2014, the year T. A. Gates and colleagues described it. The name means “unknown crest.”
Fossils referred to Adelolophus date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Wahweap Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Adelolophus at a length near 8.2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.