Augustynolophus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Holotype skull, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Saurolophinae |
Genus: | †Augustynolophus Prieto-Márquez et al., 2014 |
Species: | †A. morrisi
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Binomial name | |
†Augustynolophus morrisi (Prieto-Márquez & Wagner, 2013)
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Synonyms | |
Saurolophus morrisi Prieto-Márquez & Wagner, 2013 |
Augustynolophus is an extinct genus of herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaur dinosaur which was discovered in the Moreno Formation in California,[1] dating to the late Maastrichtian age, making it one of the last dinosaurs known from the fossil record before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.[2]