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AUGUSTYNOLOPHUS
(aw-gus-tin-o-lo-fus)
meaning: "Augustyn's crest"
Augustynolophus
Named By: Albert PrietoinMarquez, Jonathan R. Wagner, Phil R. Bell & Luis M. Chiappe in 2014
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Location: USA, California - Moreno Formation
Size: Reconstructed skull length roughly 106 centimetres long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Fragmentary skull and postcranial fossils
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Hadrosauridae | Saurolophinae |
Also known as: | Saurolophus morrisi |
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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 dinosaurs known from the fossil record for the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction.

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