- Type of dinosaur:
- large ornithopod
- Length:
- 4.5m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 84-71 million years ago
- Found in:
- USA
A disarticulated skull and skeleton belonging to Lophorhothon have been found.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
- Named by:
- Xu, Makovicky, Wang, Norell and You (1960)
- Type species:
- atopus
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