Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916
/ˌproʊsɔːˈrɒləfəs/
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Canada
Region
Alberta
Formations
Dinosaur Park · Bearpaw Shale
Dig sites
10
distinct collections
Overview
Prosaurolophus maximus is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Alberta, Canada. It was named by Brown 1916. The species is represented by 13 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~41%
well attested
Based on 13 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Prosaurolophus maximus sits in deep time
Prosaurolophus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Prosaurolophus maximus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.