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beaked plant-eater
Tlatolophus
Say it like this: “TLAH-toh-LO-fus”
Tlatolophus galorum
Tlatolophus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mexico.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Ramírez-Velasco, A. A.; Aguilar, F. J.; Hernández-Rivera, R.; Gudiño Maussán, J. L.; Lara Rodríguez, M.; Alvarado-Ortega, J.
- Hip height
- 2.7 m · 9 ft
- Length
- 8 m · 26 ft
- Weight
- 3 tonnes
- Found in
- Mexico · Cerro del Pueblo
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Tlatolophus was formally named in 2021 by A. A. Ramírez-Velasco and colleagues. The name means “word crest.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mexico, including the Cerro del Pueblo Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Tlatolophus at a length near 8 m, hips about 2.7 m high, and a body mass around 3 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.