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Unnamed taxon = Brachylophosaurs. Brachylophosaurus (Sternberg,1953)
> B.canadensis
(Sternberg,1953)
> B.
goodwini (Horner,1988)
The species B.
goodwini is named by Jack Horner after Mark Goodwin, a
preparator of the University of California at Berkeley's Museum of
Paleontology, who discovered the type specimen. The genus
Brachylophosaurus and its type species B.canadensis
were originally described by Charles M. Sternberg
in 1953 -it
was one of the few dinosaurs to be described during the 1950s - from
the Judith River Formation (then called the Oldman Formation) of
Alberta, which is famous fot its marvelously preserved Late
Cretaceous dinosaurs.
Horner's new species, however, is from the Judith River
Formation of Montana, which is notorious for its fragmentary and
problematical dinosaur remains. The type specimen of B.
goodwini is a partial skull, and fortunately enough of it exists
that it can be referred with some confidence to the genus
Brachylophosaurus. |