Genre
Valide Éteint

Saurolophus

Brown 1912
Étymologie Reptile à crête

Saurolophus est un genre éteint de dinosaures herbivores « à bec de canard » du sous-ordre des Ornithopoda et de la famille des Hadrosauridae. Ses fossiles ont été découverts en Asie et en Amérique du Nord, dans la partie terminale du Crétacé supérieur, au Campanien et au Maastrichtien soit il y a environ entre 83,6 à 66,0 millions d'années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
38
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Saurolophus
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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Ornithischia Clade non classé
Neornithischia Clade non classé
Pyrodontia Clade non classé
Cerapoda Clade non classé
Ornithopoda Sous-ordre
Iguanodontia Infraordre
Euiguanodontia Clade non classé
Dryomorpha Clade non classé
Ankylopollexia Clade non classé
Styracosterna Clade non classé
Hadrosauriformes Clade non classé
Hadrosauroidea Clade non classé
Hadrosauridae Famille
Hadrosaurinae Sous-famille
Saurolophini Tribu
Saurolophus Genre
Sites de découverte 38 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇲🇳 Mongolie
23
🇨🇦 Canada
13
🇺🇸 États-Unis
2
Formations géologiques
Nemegt
23
Oldman
1
Almond
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
31
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
7
Espèces (2)
Saurolophus angustirostris 72 Ma
Saurolophus osborni 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
B. Brown. 1912. A crested dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31(14):131-136
Bibliographie (19)
Y. Lee, L. L. Jacobs, and P. J. Currie, R. Barsbold. 2023. Narrative of the Korea-Mongolian International Dinosaur expeditions (KID) 2006–2010 with scientific results. Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Jacobs
P. J. Currie. 2016. Dinosaurs of the Gobi: Following in the footsteps of the Polish-Mongolian Expeditions. Palaeontologia Polonica 67:83-100 DOI ↗
P. R. Bell. 2012. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility for hadrosaurid skin impressions: a case study for Saurolophus from Canada and Mongolia. PLoS One 7(2):e31295:1-12 DOI ↗
B. Kremer, K. Owocki, and A. Królikowska, B. Wrzosek, J. Kazmierczak. 2012. Mineral microbial structures in a bone of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Saurolophus angustirostris from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia—a Raman spectroscopy study. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 358–360:51-61 DOI ↗
M. Watabe, S. Suzuki, and K. Tsogtbaatar, T. Tsubamoto, M. Saneyoshi. 2010. Report of the HMNS-MPC Joint Paleontological Expedition in 2006. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 3:11-18
T. A. Gates and A. A. Farke. 2009. Biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications of a hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation of Wyoming, USA. Cretaceous Research 30:1157-1163 DOI ↗
S. Ishigaki, M. Watabe, and K. Tsogtbaatar, M. Saneyoshi. 2009. Dinosaur footprints from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Geological Quarterly 53(4):449-460
P. Bell. 2007. The Danek Bonebed: an unusual dinosaur assemblage from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Edmonton, Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.):46A
K. Tsogtbaatar and T. Chinzorig. 2007. Mongolian hadrosaurids: paleobiogeography, dispersal and environmental relationships. The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research 21(2):49-53
Y. Matsumoto, R. Hashimoto, and T. Sonoda. 2000. Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:113-127
S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:83-98
W. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:30-44
S. M. Kurzanov. 1993. Novaya nakhodka otpechatka kozhi zavrolofa [New find of Saurolophus skin impression]. Sledy Zhiznedeyatelbnosti Drevnikh Organizmov [Trace Fossils of Extinct Organisms]
R. Gradzinski, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and T. Maryanska. 1977. Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions. Acta Geologica Polonica 27(3):281-318
R. Gradzinski and T. Jerzykiewicz. 1972. Additional geographical and geological data from the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:17-306
Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and R. Barsbold. 1972. Narrative of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions 1967-1971. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:5-136
A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1952. Novyi predstavitel' utkonosykh dinozavrov iz verkhnemelovykh otlozhenii Mongolii [A new representative of the duck-billed dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 86(2):405-408
R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 DOI ↗
B. Brown. 1913. The skeleton of Saurolophus, a crested duck-billed dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32(19):387-393