Tlatolophus
Name:
Tlatolophus
(word crest).
Phonetic: Tlat-o-lo-fus.
Named By: Angel AlejandroRam�rez Velasco, Felisa
J.Aguilar, Ren� Hern�ndez-Rivera, Jos� Luis Gudi�o Mauss�n,
Marisol Lara Rodr�guez & Jes�s Alvarado-Ortega - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae,
Parasaurolophini.
Species: T. galorum (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated to be about 8 meters
long.
Known locations: Mexico, Coahuila - Cerro del
Pueblo Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skull,
jaws. Partial post cranial skeleton, including the tail that was
still articulated.
Tlatolophus
is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in Mexico during the late
Cretaceous. Although a lot of the post cranial skeleton was unknown
at the time of the genus description, what is known, including the
skull, represents one of the best preserved lambeosaurine
hadrosaurs discovered in Mexico. Like others of its kind,
Tlatolophus would have been a plant eating
dinosaur, mostly
quadrupedal but still capable of bipedal locomotion. Tlatolophus
had
a large crest rising up from above and back from the top of its skull.
Further reading
- Tlatolophus galorum, gen. et sp. nov., a parasaurolophini
dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the Cerro del Pueblo Formation,
Coahuila, northern Mexico. - Cretaceous Research. 126. -
Angel AlejandroRam�rez Velasco, Felisa J.Aguilar, Ren�
Hern�ndez-Rivera, Jos� Luis Gudi�o Mauss�n, Marisol Lara Rodr�guez
& Jes�s Alvarado-Ortega - 2021.
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