In Depth Ornatops is a genus of brachylophosaurine saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Though the holotype skull is in bits, it has been reconstructed to form features that are roughly similar to Brachylophosaurus. Ornatops however also seems to have a bony protrusion rising up above the eyes. Like … Read more
In Depth Tlatolophus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in Mexico during the late Cretaceous. Although a lot of the post cranial skeleton was unknown at the time of the genus description, what is known, including the skull, represents one of the best preserved lambeosaurine hadrosaurs discovered in Mexico. Like others of its … Read more
In Depth The naming history of this dinosaur is somewhat convoluted. The fossils that would go on to establish this genus were originally described in 1984, but as a species of Kritosaurus, K. australis. As you may have inferred front the species name, it was thought that a southern population of Kritosaurus had been discovered, … Read more