Tlatolophus

Tlat-o-lo-fus.
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Benjamin Gutierrez

Vertebrate Paleontologist

Benjamin Gutierrez is a leading expert on dinosaurs, particularly the mighty theropods. His fieldwork in South America has uncovered new species and provided insights into dinosaur social structures.

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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.

Diet

Herbivore.

Species

T.‭ ‬galorum‭

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.

In Depth

       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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