- subfamily.
Saurolophus was an
important early reference for
other hadrosaurs, as seen in the
names of
Prosaurolophus ("before
Saurolophus") and Parasaurolophus...
-
lambeosaurines or
other traditional "hadrosaurines", like
Edmontosaurus and
Saurolophus. As a
result of this, the name
Hadrosaurinae was
dropped or restricted...
-
characters include Littlefoot (Apatosaurus), Cera (Triceratops),
Ducky (
Saurolophus),
Petrie (Pteranodon),
Spike (Stegosaurus), and in the spin-off television...
-
choice of name
comes from a
comparison to the
genus Saurolophus,
which he had
described in 1912.
Saurolophus had a
similar but
longer and more spike-like head...
- its
relative Saurolophus. The
specific name
refers to
palaeontologist William Morris. It was
originally described as a
species of
Saurolophus, S. morrisi...
-
Littlefoot (a male Apatosaurus), Cera (a
female Triceratops),
Ducky (a
female Saurolophus),
Petrie (a male Pteranodon), and
Spike (a male Stegosaurus).
After finding...
-
clade Hadrosauridae as the most
inclusive possible group containing Saurolophus (a well-known saurolophine) and
Parasaurolophus (a well-known lambeosaurine)...
-
smaller than that of
Edmontosaurus (formerly Trachodon), Kritosaurus, or
Saurolophus. But, when
including its crest, its
superficial area is
almost as large...
- on the
skull was
Saurolophus named in 1912 by
American paleontologist Barnum Brown for a
skeleton from Alberta. It was to
Saurolophus that
Lambe found...
- (/ˌpærəsɔːˈrɒləfəs, -ˌsɔːrəˈloʊfəs/;
meaning "beside
crested lizard" in
reference to
Saurolophus) is a
genus of
hadrosaurid "duck-billed"
dinosaur that
lived in what...
