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beaked plant-eater
Parasaurolophus
Say it like this: “PAR-a-saw-ROL-o-fus”
Parasaurolophus walkeri
Parasaurolophus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada and the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1922 · Parks, W. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7.5–9.5 m · 25–31 ft
- Weight
- 2.6–3.5 tonnes
- Found in
- Canada and the United States · Dinosaur Park
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Parasaurolophus was formally named in 1922 by W. A. Parks. The name means “beside crested lizard.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Canada and the United States, including the Dinosaur Park Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Parasaurolophus at a length near 7.5–9.5 m and a body mass around 2.6–3.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
This entry is the whole genus. The type species is Parasaurolophus walkeri. Other named species include Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus and Parasaurolophus tubicen.
Other species with this name
- Parasaurolophus walkeri
- Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus
- Parasaurolophus tubicen