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Prosaurolophus

Osteichthyes - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Prosaurolophus was named by Brown (1916).

It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Huene (1927), Parks (1935); to Hadrosauridae by Lambe (1917), Russell (1930), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Molnar (1980), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Longrich (2008); to Saurolophidae by Juárez Valieri et al. (2010); to Saurolophini by Godefroit et al. (2012), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2015), Lehman et al. (2016), Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017); to Hadrosaurinae by Sternberg (1953), Sternberg (1954), Langston (1960), Hopson (1975), Brett-Surman (1979), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Dodson (1983), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990), Hunt and Lucas (1992), Forster and Sereno (1994), Forster (1997), Godefroit et al. (1998), Eberth et al. (2001), Hernandez et al. (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Godefroit et al. (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Kirkland et al. (2006), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Gates et al. (2007), Godefroit et al. (2008), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010), Takasaki et al. (2019); and to Saurolophinae by Brown (1916), Lambe (1918), Lambe (1920), Gilmore (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1933), Nagao (1936), Lull and Wright (1942), Young (1958), Tatarinov (1964), Casamiquela (1964), Kuhn (1966), Horner (1992), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Prieto-Marquez (2013), Campione et al. (2013), Evans et al. (2014), Drysdale et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Prosaurolophus Brown p. 701
1917Prosaurolophus Lambe pp. 66-67
1918Prosaurolophus Lambe p. 138
1920Prosaurolophus Lambe pp. 67-68
1924Prosaurolophus Gilmore p. 34
1927Prosaurolophus Huene p. 260
1928Prosaurolophus Nopcsa p. 185
1930Prosaurolophus Hay p. 216
1930Prosaurolophus Russell p. 149
1933Prosaurolophus Gilmore p. 62
1935Prosaurolophus Parks p. 193
1936Prosaurolophus Nagao p. 213
1942Prosaurolophus Lull and Wright p. 133
1953Prosaurolophus Sternberg p. 11
1954Prosaurolophus Sternberg p. 383
1956Prosaurolophus Romer p. 630
1958Prosaurolophus Young p. 106
1960Prosaurolophus Langston p. 323
1963Prosaurolophus Parsch p. 8
1964Prosaurolophus Casamiquela
1964Prosaurolophus Kuhn p. 26
1964Prosaurolophus Tatarinov p. 565
1966Prosaurolophus Kuhn p. 103
1966Prosaurolophus Romer p. 370
1970Prosaurolophus Swinton p. 221
1974Prosaurolophus Thulborn p. 173
1975Prosaurolophus Hopson p. 25
1979Prosaurolophus Brett-Surman p. 561 fig. 1
1980Prosaurolophus Molnar p. 138
1983Prosaurolophus Dodson p. 94
1983Prosaurolophus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984Prosaurolophus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 131
1984Prosaurolophus Russell p. 25
1986Prosaurolophus Clemens p. 80
1988Prosaurolophus Carroll
1990Prosaurolophus Chapman and Brett-Surman p. 177
1990Prosaurolophus Weishampel and Horner p. 556
1992Prosaurolophus Horner p. 16
1992Prosaurolophus Hunt and Lucas p. 228
1994Prosaurolophus Forster and Sereno p. 25A
1997Prosaurolophus Forster p. 294
1998Prosaurolophus Godefroit et al. p. 51
2001Prosaurolophus Eberth et al. p. 58
2003Prosaurolophus Hernandez et al. p. 61A
2004Prosaurolophus Godefroit et al. p. 148 fig. 6
2004Prosaurolophus Horner et al. p. 440
2005Prosaurolophus Ryan and Evans p. 338
2006Prosaurolophus Kirkland et al. p. 311 fig. 13
2006Prosaurolophus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 938
2007Prosaurolophus Gates et al. p. 928 fig. 11
2008Prosaurolophus Godefroit et al. p. 67 fig. 18
2008Prosaurolophus Longrich p. 994
2009Prosaurolophus Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 568 fig. 6
2010Prosaurolophus Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 1510 fig. 4
2010Prosaurolophus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 220
2010Prosaurolophus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010Prosaurolophus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Prosaurolophus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2012Prosaurolophus Godefroit et al. p. 19
2012Prosaurolophus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013Prosaurolophus Campione et al. p. 66
2013Prosaurolophus Prieto-Marquez
2014Prosaurolophus Evans et al. p. 201
2015Prosaurolophus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 227
2016Prosaurolophus Lehman et al. p. 346
2017Prosaurolophus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2019Prosaurolophus Drysdale et al. p. 2
2019Prosaurolophus Takasaki et al. p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyHadrosaurinaeLambe 1918
tribeSaurolophini
genusProsaurolophus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Prosaurolophus Brown 1916
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†Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916
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Invalid names: Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis Horner 1992 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Maximum body mass: 3000 kgg
Minimum body mass: 1000 kgg
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-25 05:55:07
Modified: 2005-08-25 07:55:07
Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Campanian83.6 - 72.2Canada (Alberta) P. sp. (64334)
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2Canada (Alberta) Brachylophosaurus sp. (162138) P. maximus (58759 58953 59049 59051 64632 77259 204697 206775) Trachodontidae indet. (59021)
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (Montana) Lambeosaurus sp. (22652) P. blackfeetensis (22689 22692)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Canada (Alberta) P. sp. (162137)