This taxon is a local entry, absent from the Paleobiology Database. Data may be incomplete or unverified.
Genus
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Plesiolophus

McFeeters et al., 2026

Plesiolophus is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Canada. The genus contains a single species, Plesiolophus warnerensis, known from a partial skull. It belongs to the clade Parasaurolophini, where it exhibits more primitive cranial characters than its relatives.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore
Plesiolophus
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Hypothetical Plesiolophus skull reconstruction with known elements in white. Missing elements in grey. Scale bar 20 cm. © Olof Moleman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Publication originale
2026 McFeeters, Bradley D.; Evans, David C.; Ryan, Michael J.; Maddin, Hillary C. (July 2026). "A new parasaurolophin dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from the Oldman Formation of southern Alberta". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 63: 1–23.