Rhinorex
Name: Rhinorex
(nose king).
Phonetic: Ry-no-rex.
Named By: T. A. Gates & R. Scheetz
- 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Saurolophinae,
Kritosaurini.
Species: R. condrupus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Holotype skull about 78 centimetres long.
Total body length roughly estimated to be about 9 meters long.
Known locations: USA, Utah - Neslen Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeletal remains, mostly of a partial hip and vertebrae.
Rhinorex is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaur that lived in the USA during the late Cretaceous. Rhinorex can be further identified as a kritosaurine due to the development of the bones on the snout which would have formed a bony display structure in life. However, Rhinorex is also noted as being very similar to Gryposaurus, which lived in a near identical location at the same time as Rhinorex, which has fuelled speculation that Rhinorex may actually be synonymous with Gryposaurus.
Further reading
- A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from
the Campanian of Utah, North America. - Journal of Systematic
Palaeontology. - T. A. Gates & R. Scheetz -
2014.
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