Also known as Prosaurolophus type
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 100 ft below top of Belly River beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Brown & Johnson in 1915; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Brown. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(37):701-708 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64632: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prosaurolophus maximus n. gen. n. sp.
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