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ADELOLOPHUS
(ah-del-o-lo-fus)
meaning: "unknown crest"
Named By: T. A. Gates, Z. Jinnah, C. Levitt & M. A. Getty in 2014
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma
Location: USA, Utah - Wahweap Formation
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Maxilla (tooth baring bone of the upper jaw)
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithishcia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauridae | Lambeosaurinae |
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Adelolophus ("unknown crest") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur (a crested "duck-bill") from Upper Cretaceous rocks in Utah, United States. It is based on University of California Museum of Paleontology specimen 152028, a maxilla (tooth-bearing bone of the upper jaw). This specimen was found in the Campanian-age Wahweap Formation within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Adelolophus was described by Terry Gates and colleagues in 2014. The type and only known species is A. hutchisoni; the species name is a reference to Dr. Howard Hutchison, who found the specimen. The authors interpreted Adelolophus as the oldest known lambeosaurine from North America, at approximately 78 million years old.

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