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Saurolophus
Saurolophus osborni Brown 1912
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Saurolophus osborni is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Brown 1912. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Saurolophus sits in deep time
Saurolophus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Saurolophus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.