Named By: | W. Langston in 1960 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, ~80 Ma |
Location: | USA, Alabama - Mooreville Chalk Formation, Carolina - Black Creek Formation |
Size: | Holotype roughly estimated at about 4.5 meters |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauroidea | |
Lophorhothon (Langston, 1960) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, the first genus of dinosaur discovered in Alabama, in the United States.