| Augustynolophus | |
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| An artist's illustration of Augustynolophus morrisi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Superorder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Augustynolophus Prieto-Márquez, 2014 |
| Species: | †A. morrisi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Augustynolophus morrisi Prieto-Márquez, 2014 | |
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Augustynolophus is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur dinosaur that lived in California during the Late Cretaceous period. It's only known species is A. morrisi.
Description[]
It is a large hadrosaur reaching 8 meters (26ft) and 3 tons in mass. The holotype (LACM/CIT) consists of majority of the fossil materials, such as skull,vertebrae, and hand.
History of discovery[]
The holotype (LACM/CIT) was discovered in 1943. The second specimen, consisting of parts of the skull and limbs, was discovered in 1939. It was named by Prieto-Marquez and Wagner in 2013.
Paleoecology[]
It lived with Prognathodon,Halisaurus,Frensosaurus,etc.