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Augustynolophus morrisi

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Saurolophus morrisi was named by Prieto-Marquez and Wagner (2013). Its type specimen is LACM/CIT 2852, a partial skeleton (Skeleton including fragment of left and most of right premaxilla, both maxillae, right jugal, right quadratojugal, partial right quadrate, right postorbital, ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Panoche-Tumey Hills (CIT Loc. 357), which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shale in the Moreno Formation of California.

It was recombined as Augustynolophus morrisi by Prieto-Márquez et al. (2015) and Lehman et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2011Saurolophus morrisi Prieto-Marquez and Wagner figs. 1-6, 9B
2013Saurolophus morrisi Prieto-Marquez and Wagner
2015Augustynolophus morrisi Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 227 figs. 1-7
2016Augustynolophus morrisi Lehman et al. p. 346

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

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.

†Augustynolophus morrisi Prieto-Marquez and Wagner 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
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: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (California) Hadrosaurinae indet. (55358) Trachodontidae indet. (type locality: 55359)