Ornatops
Name: Ornatops
(Ornate face).
Phonetic: Or-nah-tops.
Named By: Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G.
Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, & Terry A. Gates
- 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Saurolophinae.
Species: O. incantatus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, New Mexico - Menefee
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeleton.
Ornatops
is a genus of brachylophosaurine saurolophine hadrosaurid
dinosaur that
lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Though the
holotype skull is in bits, it has been reconstructed to form features
that are roughly similar to Brachylophosaurus.
Ornatops
however also
seems to have a bony protrusion rising up above the eyes. Like
other hadrosaurs, Ornatops could have likely
been a generalist
browser of plants with a body form similar to those of other
hadrosaurids.
Further reading
- A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the
Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. - PeerJ. 9:
e11084. - Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe, Elizabeth
A. Freedman Fowler, & Terry A. Gates - 2021.
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