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Adelolophus, the Glossary

Adelolophus (meaning "unknown crest") is a genus of lambeosaurine dinosaur (a crested "duck-bill") from Upper Cretaceous rocks in the U.S. state of Utah.^[1]

54 relations: "Mesosuchia", Acipenseriformes, Amiidae, Angulomastacator, Aralosaurus, Arvinachelys, Baenidae, Basilemys, Brackish water, Campanian, Ceratopsidae, Charonosaurus, Denazinemys, Dinosaur, Estuary, Family (biology), Gar, Genus, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Hadrosauridae, Holotype, Jaxartosaurus, Kane County, Utah, Lambeosaurinae, Lambeosaurus, Late Cretaceous, Lythronax, Machairoceratops, Melvius, Mudstone, Nanhsiungchelyidae, Neurankylus, Nipponosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Phylogenetics, Sandstone, Saurolophinae, Scientific literature, Subfamily, Taxon, Theropoda, Timeline of hadrosaur research, Tlatolophus, Tribe (biology), Trionychidae, Tsintaosaurus, Type (biology), Type species, Tyrannosauridae, U.S. state, ... Expand index (4 more) »
Lambeosaurines

"Mesosuchia"

"Mesosuchia" is an obsolete name for a group of terrestrial, semi-aquatic, or fully aquatic crocodylomorph reptiles.

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Acipenseriformes

Acipenseriformes is an order of basal ray-finned fishes that includes living and fossil sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseroidei), as well as the extinct families Chondrosteidae and Peipiaosteidae.

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Amiidae

The Amiidae are a family of basal ray-finned fishes.

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Angulomastacator (meaning "bend chewer", in reference to both the shape of its upper jaw and to the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande, where the type specimen was found) is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Campanian-age (Late Cretaceous) Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Adelolophus and Angulomastacator are Campanian genus extinctions, Campanian genus first appearances, lambeosaurines, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and ornithischian genera.

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Aralosaurus

Aralosaurus was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kazakhstan. Adelolophus and Aralosaurus are lambeosaurines and ornithischian genera.

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Arvinachelys

Arvinachelys goldeni is an extinct baenid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Utah. Adelolophus and Arvinachelys are paleontology in Utah.

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Baenidae

Baenidae is an extinct family of paracryptodiran turtles known from the Early Cretaceous to Eocene of North America. While during the Early Cretaceous they are found across North America, during the Late Cretaceous they are only found in Laramidia, having disappeared from Appalachia. The majority of lineages survived the K-Pg Extinction, but the family was extinct by the latest Eocene.

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Basilemys

Basilemys ("king turtle" in Greek) is a large, terrestrial nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of North and Central America. Adelolophus and Basilemys are Campanian genus first appearances.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Campanian

The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Ceratopsidae

Ceratopsidae (sometimes spelled Ceratopidae) is a family of ceratopsian dinosaurs including Triceratops, Centrosaurus, and Styracosaurus.

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Charonosaurus

Charonosaurus (meaning "Charon's lizard") is a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000, on the south bank of the Amur River, dividing China from Russia. Adelolophus and Charonosaurus are lambeosaurines and ornithischian genera.

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Denazinemys

Denazinemys was a genus of baenid turtle that lived in the Late Cretaceous of New Mexico.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Gar

Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument

The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is a United States national monument protecting the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante (Escalante River) in southern Utah.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Jaxartosaurus

Jaxartosaurus (meaning "Jaxartes lizard" after the early name of the Syr Darya) is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur similar to Corythosaurus which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Adelolophus and Jaxartosaurus are lambeosaurines and ornithischian genera.

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Kane County, Utah

Kane County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Lambeosaurinae

Lambeosaurinae is an extinct group of crested hadrosaurid dinosaurs. Adelolophus and Lambeosaurinae are lambeosaurines.

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Lambeosaurus

Lambeosaurus (meaning "Lambe's lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage) of North America. Adelolophus and Lambeosaurus are lambeosaurines, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and ornithischian genera.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lythronax

Lythronax is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America around 81.9-81.5 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Adelolophus and Lythronax are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and paleontology in Utah.

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Machairoceratops

Machairoceratops (meaning "bent sword horned face"), previously known as the "Wahweap centrosaurine B", is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation (late Campanian stage) of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, United States. Adelolophus and Machairoceratops are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America, ornithischian genera and paleontology in Utah.

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Melvius

Melvius is a genus of vidalamiin amiid fish from the Late Cretaceous.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Nanhsiungchelyidae

Nanhsiungchelyidae is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America.

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Neurankylus

Neurankylus is an extinct genus of turtles in the family Baenidae that lived between 112 and 61 million years ago in Canada and the United States.

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Nipponosaurus

Nipponosaurus (meaning "Japanese lizard") is a lambeosaurine hadrosaur from sediments of the Yezo Group, in Sinegorsk on the island of Sakhalin, which was part of Japan at the time of the species' classification. Adelolophus and Nipponosaurus are lambeosaurines and ornithischian genera.

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Parasaurolophus

Parasaurolophus (meaning "beside crested lizard" in reference to Saurolophus) is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur that lived in what is now western North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.5–66 million years ago. Adelolophus and Parasaurolophus are Campanian genus first appearances, lambeosaurines, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America, ornithischian genera and paleontology in Utah.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Saurolophinae

Saurolophinae is a subfamily of hadrosaurid dinosaurs.

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Scientific literature

Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Timeline of hadrosaur research

This timeline of hadrosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the hadrosauroids, a group of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs popularly known as the duck-billed dinosaurs.

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Tlatolophus

Tlatolophus (meaning "word crest") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur belonging to the tribe Parasaurolophini. Adelolophus and Tlatolophus are Campanian genus extinctions, Campanian genus first appearances, lambeosaurines, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America and ornithischian genera.

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Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.

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Trionychidae

The Trionychidae are a taxonomic family of a number of turtle genera, commonly known as softshell turtles.

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Tsintaosaurus

Tsintaosaurus (sic for the old transliteration "Tsingtao", meaning "Qingdao lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. Adelolophus and Tsintaosaurus are lambeosaurines and ornithischian genera.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelolophus

Also known as Adelolophus hutchisoni.

, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Utah, Wahweap Formation, Western Interior Seaway.

Adelolophus, the Glossary

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Lambeosaurines

References