Describer

Brown, 1913

Time

Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada

Fall under

Hypacrosaurus

Info

Typespecies - Skull

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

5 - 10 articulated skulls, some associated with postcrania, isolated skull elements, Juvenile to adult.

\\\\\\\"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