Latirhinus
Name:
Latirhinus
(broad nose).
Phonetic: Lat-e-rhy-nus.
Named By: Albert Prieto-M�rquez &
Prieto-M�rquez Serrano Bra�as - 2012.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria,
Saurolophinae.
Species: L. uitstlani
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly about 5 meters long for the
holotype.
Known locations: Mexico - Cerro del Pueblo
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skeleton.
Latirhinus
should not be confused with Altirhinus,
as not only do they have
similar sounding names (only difference being the position of the
’l’ and ’a’ at the start), both were hadrosaurs and both
were named after the enlarged bony protuberances on their snouts.
Latirhinus was a form of saurolophine hadrosaur,
a type noted for
not having a hollow bony head crest. However discoveries of
Edmontosaurus
indicate that a fleshy head crest might have been
present, though such a feature is unknown for certain for
Latirhinus.
The
holotype fossils of Latirhinus were recovered from
Mexico which in the
late cretaceous would have been the southern most portion of
Laramidia, a landmass that stretched along the western portion of
what is now North America. This landmass was mostly separated from
the eastern portion of North America by the Western interior seaway.
Here Latirhinus alongside other hadrosaurs such as
Velafrons
and
Kritosaurus,
as well as ceratopsians
such as Coahuilaceratops.
Further reading
- Latirhinus uitstlani, a 'broad-nosed'
saurolophine
hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian
(Cretaceous) of northern Mexico - Historical Biology 24
(6): 607–619 - Albert Prieto-M�rquez &
Prieto-M�rquez Serrano Bra�as - 2012.
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