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beaked plant-eater
Lambeosaurus
Say it like this: “LAM-bee-uh-SOR-uhs”
Lambeosaurus lambei
Lambeosaurus 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
- 1923 · Parks, W. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7–7.7 m · 23–25 ft
- Weight
- 2.6–3.4 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
The genus Lambeosaurus dates to 1923, the year W. A. Parks described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
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 Lambeosaurus at a length near 7–7.7 m and a body mass around 2.6–3.4 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
This entry is the whole genus. The type species is Lambeosaurus lambei. Other named species include Lambeosaurus magnicristatus.
Other species with this name
- Lambeosaurus lambei
- Lambeosaurus magnicristatus