Outline: a typical ornithopod
Lophorhothon
"crested nose"
Type species Lophorhothon atopus
- Lived
- 86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 4.5 m (15 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Langston 1960
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical ornithopod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Lophorhothon
What it was like
Lophorhothon was a plant eater about 4.5 meters (15 feet) long, an early relative of the duckbills. It had a small crest or bump on its snout. The known skeleton may be from a young animal.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alabama. At the time, eastern North America was a separate land called Appalachia. It comes from the Mooreville Chalk, which formed in the sea, and it lived alongside the early duckbill Eotrachodon.
How it was found
Langston named Lophorhothon in 1960. The type species is Lophorhothon atopus.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Sources: WikidataNamed in: W. Langston. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part VI. The dinosaurs. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(6):315-361