Dinosaurs · Large ornithopod
Brachylophosaurus
Say it brak-i-lof-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘short-crested lizard’.
- Length
- 7 m
- Diet
- Plant-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous89 to 88 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Canada, USA
- Named by
- C M Sternberg (1953)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ornithopoda › Hadrosauridae › Euhadrosauria › Hadrosaurinae
Large ornithopods. Big plant-eaters that walked on two or four legs, including the duck-billed dinosaurs. See all 36
Lived at the same time
- Nothronychus · same country
- Zuniceratops · same country
- Achillobator
- Alectrosaurus
- Alvarezsaurus
- Aralosaurus
- Archaeornithomimus
- Graciliceratops
Other large ornithopods
- Nipponosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Tanius Late Cretaceous
- Gryposaurus Late Cretaceous
- Aralosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Bactrosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Jaxartosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Lophorhothon Late Cretaceous
- Telmatosaurus Late Cretaceous
Source: Brachylophosaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.