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Lophorhothon atopus
Taxonomy
Lophorhothon atopus was named by Langston (1960). Its type specimen is FMNH P27383, a partial skeleton (much of the skull, partial predentary, 44 vertebrae, ribs, chevrons, partial hands, ischia, legs, and feet, and a femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Site 9, Moore Brothers' Farm, which is in a Campanian marine marl in the Mooreville Chalk Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Lophorhothon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1960 | Lophorhothon atopus Langston p. 321 figs. 146-158 |
| 1964 | Lophorhothon atopus Kuhn p. 22 |
| 1964 | Lophorhothon atopus Tatarinov p. 561 |
| 1979 | Lophorhothon atopus Baird and Horner p. 17 |
| 1981 | Lophorhothon atopus Thurmond and Jones p. 145–146 |
| 1983 | Lophorhothon atopus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1990 | Lophorhothon atopus Weishampel and Horner p. 557 |
| 2004 | Lophorhothon atopus Godefroit et al. p. 147 |
| 2004 | Lophorhothon atopus Horner et al. p. 440 |
| 2004 | Lophorhothon atopus Kiernan and Schwimmer p. 91 |
| 2006 | Lophorhothon atopus Lund and Gates p. 273 |
| 2008 | Lophorhothon atopus Godefroit et al. p. 66 |
| 2010 | Lophorhothon atopus McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39 |
| 2010 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 829 |
| 2010 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez p. 1 |
| 2010 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 9 |
| 2010 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Lophorhothon atopus Ebersole and King p. 82 |
| 2011 | Lophorhothon atopus Gates et al. p. 801 |
| 2011 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez p. 63 |
| 2012 | Lophorhothon atopus Godefroit et al. p. 16 |
| 2012 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez p. 524 |
| 2012 | Lophorhothon atopus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380 |
| 2013 | Lophorhothon atopus Ikejiri et al. p. 47 |
| 2013 | Lophorhothon atopus Zheng et al. |
| 2014 | Lophorhothon atopus Tsogtbaatar et al. p. 126 |
| 2015 | Lophorhothon atopus Ohashi et al. p. 4 |
| 2016 | Lophorhothon atopus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 1 |
| 2017 | Lophorhothon atopus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13 |
| 2018 | Lophorhothon atopus Gates et al. p. 13 |
| 2021 | Lophorhothon atopus Kobayashi et al. p. 1 |
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†Lophorhothon atopus Langston 1960
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. Langston 1960 | Same as for genus. | |
| A. Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016 | an elevated skull with short snout, wide orbits and wide temporal fenestrae, nasal pyramidal crest similar to that of Prosaurolophus but located well rostral to the orbits, large fronto-nasal fontanelle, teeth with heavily crenulated enamel surfaces and denticulate coronal margins. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Alabama) | Hadrosauridae indet. (type locality: 52053) |