What is Lophorhothon?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Lophorhothon'' | taxon = Lophorhothon | fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]], ~{{fossilrange|80}} | image = Lophorhothon atopus.jpg | image_caption = Skull | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Lophorhothon atopus''''' | type_species_authority = Langston, 1960 | authority = Langston, 1960 }} '''''Lophorhothon''''' (Langston, 1960) is a [[genus]] of [[Hadrosauridae|hadrosaurid]] [[dinosaur]] from the [[Late Cretaceous]], the first genus of dinosaur discovered in [[Alabama]], in the [[United States]]. == Discovery and naming == Remains of this small, poorly known perhaps [[Hadrosaurid|saurolophine]] dinosaur were first discovered during the 1940s, from extensive erosional outcrops of the lower unnamed member of the Mooreville Chalk Formation in [[Dallas County, Alabama|Dallas County]], west of the town of [[Selma, Alabama]]. == Taxonomic status == A number of workers have questioned the validity of ''L. atopus''. It may have been a premature ''[[Prosaurolophus]]''. == Holotype == The holotype specimen was likely washed out to sea by a river, where it eventually sank and was buried in the silty [[carbonate]] sediments of Alabama. == Sources == * Horner, J. R., Weishampel, D. B., and Forster, C. A. 2004. Chapter Twenty: Hadrosauridae. in The Dinosauria (2nd edition), Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H., editors. University of California Press. * Lamb, J. P. 1998. ''Lophorothon'', an iguanodontian, not a hadrosaur. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18 (3 Abstracts): 59A. * Langston, W. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VI: the dinosaurs. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(5): 315–359. * Schwimmer, D. R. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in eastern USA: a taphonomic and biogeographic model of occurrences, p.&nbsp;203–211. In D. L. Wolberg, E. Stump, and G. D. Rosenberg (eds.), Dinofest International. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. * Thurmond, J. T. and Jones, D. E. 1981. Fossil vertebrates of Alabama. University of Alabama Press. {{