Lophorhothon atopus Lophorhothon
"crested"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lophorhothon 4.5 m (14.8 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80 Mya)
- Place
- United States
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.