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Tlatolophus

Tlatolophus was a duck-billed dinosaur with a broad, curved head crest.

Tlatolophus was a duck-billed dinosaur with a broad, curved head crest. Its preserved skull material adds a distinctive form to the variety of hollow-crested hadrosaurs.

Tlatolophus 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 Tlatolophus

Tlatolophus was a duck-billed dinosaur with a broad, curved head crest. Its preserved skull material adds a distinctive form to the variety of hollow-crested hadrosaurs.

The preserved skull material documents its broad crest and distinctive profile. It adds another head form to the varied hollow-crested hadrosaur radiation.

Fossil discoveries

Coahuila, Mexico · approximate location
Coahuila, Mexico

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, F. J. Aguilar, and R. Hernández-Rivera, J. L. G. Maussán, M. L. Rodríguez, J. Alvarado-Ortega. 2021. Tlatolophus galorum, gen. et sp. nov., a parasaurolophini dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, northern Mexico. Cretaceous Research ↗

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

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  1. Tlatolophus galorum, gen. et sp. nov., a parasaurolophini dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, northern Mexico

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