Lophorhothon atopus
"crested"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lophorhothon 4.5 m (14.8 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80 Mya)
- Place
- United States
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lophorhothon is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alabama, and possibly Georgia and North Carolina. It was the first dinosaur genus discovered in Alabama, in the United States.
What we know
- Named by Langston, 1960.
- Body length estimated at about 4.5 m.
- Fossils found in United States.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lophorhothon — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.