| Description | Brachylophosaurus (brə-KIL-ə-fo-SAWR-əs or brak-i-LOH-fə-SAWR-əs; meaning "short-crested lizard", Greek brachys = short + lophos = crest + sauros = lizard, referring to its small crest) was a mid-sized member of the hadrosaurid family of dinosaurs. It is known from several skeletons and bonebed material from the Judith River Formation of Montana and the Oldman Formation of Alberta, living about 78 million years ago.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae : Brachylophosaurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Hadrosauridae : Brachylophosaurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Brachylophosaurus Sternberg, 1953 |
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| Name Published In | Bull. Nat. Mus. Can., no. 128 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Sternberg, 1953 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Sternberg, 1954 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Kuhn, 1964 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Saurolophinae | stated with evidence | Tatarinov, 1964 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | implied | Romer, 1966 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Saurolophinae | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1966 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Thulborn, 1974 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Hopson, 1975 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Molnar, 1980 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Dodson, 1983 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Russell, 1984 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Maryanska and OsmĂłlska, 1984 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Clemens, 1986 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Weishampel and Horner, 1990 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Chapman and Brett-Surman, 1990 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Maiasaurinae | stated without evidence | Horner, 1992 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Forster, 1997 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosauridae | stated without evidence | Eberth et al., 2001 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | You et al., 2003 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Horner et al., 2004 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Godefroit et al., 2004 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Guenther, 2009 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated with evidence | Cruzado-Caballero et al., 2010 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Saurolophinae | stated with evidence | Prieto-Márquez, 2010 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Brachylophosaurini | stated with evidence | Gates et al., 2011 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Saurolophinae | stated with evidence | RamĂrez-Velasco et al., 2012 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Saurolophinae | stated without evidence | Bell, 2014 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Hadrosaurinae | stated without evidence | Tan et al., 2015 | | Brachylophosaurus | genus | belongs to Brachylophosaurini | stated with evidence | Lehman et al., 2016 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithopoda) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | C. M. Sternberg. 1953. A mew hadrosaur from the Oldman Formation of Alberta: discussion of nomenclature. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 128:1-12 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachylophosaurus |
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| Sternberg C. M. (1953) A mew hadrosaur from the Oldman Formation of Alberta: discussion of nomenclature, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 128, 1-12 |
| Tatarinov L. P. (1964) Nadotryad Dinosauria. Dinozavry [Superorder Dinosauria. Dinosaurs], Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Paleontology] 12, 523-589 |
| Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154 |
| Romer A. S. (1966) , Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition, 1-468 |
| Thulborn R. A. (1974) A new heterodontosaurid dinosaur (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Upper Triassic red beds of Lesotho, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 55, 151-175 |
| Hopson J. A. (1975) The evolution of cranial display structures in hadrosaurian dinosaurs, Paleobiology 1, 21-43 |
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| Molnar R. E. (1980) Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139, 131-143 |
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| Russell D. A. (1984) A check list of the families and genera of North American dinosaurs, Syllogeus 53, 1-35 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Chapman R., Brett-Surman M. K. (1990) Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid ornithopods, In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 163-177 |
| Horner J. R. (1992) Cranial morphology of Prosaurolophus (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) with descriptions of two new hadrosaurid species and an evaluation of hadrosaurid phylogenetic relationships, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 2, 1-119 |
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| You H., Ji Q., et al (2003) A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 77 2, 148-154 |
| Horner J. R., Weishampel D. B., et al (2004) Hadrosauridae, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 438-463 |
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| RamĂrez-Velasco A. A., Benammi M., et al (2012) Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49, 379-395 doi:10.1139/E11-062 |
| Prieto-Marquez A. (2013) Skeletal morphology of Kritosaurus navajovius(Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of the North American south-west, with an evaluation of the phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of Kritosaurini, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2013.770417 |
| Tan Q.-W., Xing H., et al (2015) New hadrosauroid material from the Upper Cretaceous Majiacun Formation of Hubei Province, central China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53 3, 245-264 |
| Lehman T. M., Wick S. L., et al (2016) Hadrosaurian dinosaurs from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas, Journal of Paleontology 90 2, 333-356 doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.48 |
| Cruzado-Caballero P., Powell J. E. (2017) Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 2, e1289381:1-16 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1289381 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Bull. Nat. Mus. Can., no. 128 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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