Brachylophosaurus

short-crested lizard

• brachys · Greek · short
• lophos · Greek · crest
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines Greek words for "short", "crest" and "lizard". It refers to the flat, paddle-like bony crest on top of the skull, which is short compared with the tall, hollow crests of many other lambeosaurine-type hadrosaurs. Brachylophosaurus is a duck-billed hadrosaur (a saurolophine) known from very well-preserved specimens, including mummified "Leonardo".

Named by

Sternberg

Year named

1953

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada; Judith River Formation, Montana, USA

The type species is Brachylophosaurus canadensis. A second species, B. goodwini, was named in 2016. It is a valid dinosaur genus.