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bird-hipped dinosaur
Parksosaurus
Say it like this: “PAHRK-so-SAWR-us”
Parksosaurus warreni
Parksosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1937 · Sternberg, C. M.
- Hip height
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 3 m · 10 ft
- Weight
- 45 kg · 99 lb
- Found in
- Canada · Horseshoe Canyon
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Thescelosaurinae
The story in short
Parksosaurus was formally named in 1937 by C. M. Sternberg. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Parksosaurus at a length near 3 m, hips about 1 m high, and a body mass around 45 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Thescelosaurinae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
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Fona
Fona herzogae
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