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Olorotitan

Olorotitan was a crested duck-billed dinosaur with a distinctive head ornament and a long neck.

Olorotitan was a crested duck-billed dinosaur with a distinctive head ornament and a long neck. Its skeleton helps reveal the variety within the hollow-crested hadrosaur branch.

Olorotitan at a glance

Diet
Herbivore
Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
When it lived
Late Cretaceous
Group
Lambeosaurinae
Lambeosaurinae

Beyond the game

The real Olorotitan

Olorotitan was a crested duck-billed dinosaur with a distinctive head ornament and a long neck. Its skeleton helps reveal the variety within the hollow-crested hadrosaur branch.

The skull and skeleton document a particular member of the hollow-crested hadrosaur branch. The crest’s shape contributes to that identity alongside the rest of the body.

Fossil discoveries

Amur, Russia · approximate location
Amur, Russia

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · P. Godefroit, Y. Bolotsky, and V. Alifanov. 2003. A remarkable hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for lambeosaurines. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:143-151 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

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  1. A remarkable hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for lambeosaurines

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