Describer

Brown, 1913

Time

Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Canada, US

Typespecies

Hypacrosaurus altispinus

Info

Genus - Skull

Hypacrosaurus (Brown, 1913) > Hypacrosaurus altispinus (Brown, 1913) > Cheneosaurus tolmanensis (Lambe, 1917) > Hypacrosaurus stebingeri (Horner & Currie, 1994)

\\\\\\\"near-topmost lizard\\\\\\\" The neural spines of Hypacrosaurus altispinus are tall, but not exceptionally so for lambeosaurids--although they seemed very tall when the Hypacrosaurus altispinus was originally described, back in 1913.

Kundrat and Currie (2001), in an abstract reported on numerous embryonic cranial bones belonging to the Hypacrosaurus stebingeri from the Devil\\\\\\\'s Coulee area in southern Alberta, Canada=