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Hadrosauridae

Augustynolophus

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Augustynolophus 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Augustynolophus
Length
8 m (26.2 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
Place
North America
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Augustynolophus reconstruction by LancianIdolatry
Reconstruction · LancianIdolatry (CC0)

Augustynolophus is an extinct genus of herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaur dinosaur which was discovered in the Moreno Formation in California, dating to the late Maastrichtian age, making it one of the last non-avian dinosaurs known from the fossil record before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

What we know

  • Named by (Prieto-Márquez & Wagner, 2013).
  • Body length estimated at about 8 m.
  • Fossils found in North America.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Augustynolophus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.