Brachylophosaurus
Brachylophosaurus canadensis
Pronounced:
Bra-key-Lawf-o-Saw-rus
Diet: Herbivore (plant eater)
Name Means:
Length: 23 feet (7 m)
Height: 9 feet (2.8 m)
Weight: 1.5 tons (1,300
kilos)
Time: Late Cretaceous - 78
MYA
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in
North America
Brachylophosaurus was one of the smaller duck-billed
dinosaurs - if you think 23 feet long is small! It had a tall
head and its nose was short and curved down to its beak. Like
the other hadrosaurs, it also had hundreds of teeth. You might
take having cheeks for granted, but the large cheeks that these
dinosaurs had allowed them to chew their food without it falling
out of their mouths. This was a big evolutionary step,
especially when you have hundreds of teeth and spend much of
your day chewing tough plant leaves.
Discovered and initially described by Charles Sternberg,
Brachylophosaurus was a fairly typical hadrosaur. It had a very
small crest on top of a tall head. The second species of this
dinosaur, B. goodwini, may in fact represent gender
differentiation rather than another species. |
