Saurolophini
tribe · Godefroit et al. 2012 · accepted · extinct
9 descendant taxa · 56 fossil sites · 10 formations · 4 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
83.6–66 million years ago
Found where
4 countries
10 rock formations
Fossil record
56 sites
7 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 18 million years, from 83.6 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Saurolophini was named in 2012 (Godefroit et al. 2012) — 14 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 4 countries and 10 named rock formations.
- 7 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 9 named taxa, including 5 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).