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beaked plant-eater
Corythosaurus
Say it like this: “ko-RITH-o-SAWR-us”
Corythosaurus casuarius
Corythosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1914 · Brown, B.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7.7–9 m · 25–30 ft
- Weight
- 2.5–3.8 tonnes
- Found in
- Canada · Dinosaur Park
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 1914, B. Brown published the name Corythosaurus. The name means “helmeted lizard.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Dinosaur Park Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Corythosaurus at a length near 7.7–9 m and a body mass around 2.5–3.8 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
This entry is the whole genus. The type species is Corythosaurus casuarius. Other named species include Corythosaurus intermedius.
Other species with this name
- Corythosaurus casuarius
- Corythosaurus intermedius