Saurolophus
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| phylum | Chordata | Saurolophus is a genus of large hadrosaurine duckbill that lived about 69.5–68.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia; it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back from the skull. Saurolophus was an herbivorous dinosaur which could move about either bipedally or quadrupedally.
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| clade | Sauropsida | |
| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | †Ornithischia | |
| clade | †Ornithopoda | |
| family | †Hadrosauridae | |
| genus | †Saurolophus | |
| species | †S. osborni | |
| Temporal range | Late Cretaceous |
