Describer

Brown, 1916

Time

Cretaceous Late Campanian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Hadrosaurinae Gryposaurini Saurolophini

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Judith River Group (Wedge), Alberta, Canada; ?Judith River Formation (Wedge), Montana, US

Info

Genus - Typespecies - Skull - Skin

Prosaurolophus maximus (Brown, 1916) > Prosaurolophus blackfeetenis (Horner, 1992)

20-25 individuals, including at least 7 articulated skulls and associated postcrania

Pierce, (2002) reported on two juvenile specimens the first collected from marine sediments of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) [Bearpaw Formation] Bearpaw Shale near Maybarries southern Alberta, Canada and consists of a semiarticulated partial skull and postcranium, the second found in the St. Mary\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s River Valley near Welling that consists of a skull, vertebral column, rins cranial to the sacrum, forelimbs, some disarticulated elements including the ilium and a partial femur, a skin impresiion in the abdominal region and numerous ossified tendons running down the vertrebral column. Both specimen are being referred to Prosaurolophus cf. maximus