Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Parasaurolophus
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Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur, or a duck-billed dinosaur.
What did they look like?[edit | edit source]
They were large quadruped hadrosaurs. They had front legs similar to a horse's and had rigid, straight tails. They are unique among hadrosaurs that they had trombone-like head crests.
What did they eat?[edit | edit source]
They ate plants and shrubs.
When did they live?[edit | edit source]
They lived before the time of the K-T extinction, during the Cretaceous time period of the Mesozoic. This was about 76.5–73 million years ago.
Where did they live?[edit | edit source]
Early depictions showed hadrosaurs swimming in swamps and eating sea grass. However, we now know that hadrosaurs were land-dwelling dinosaurs. They lived in what is now the following areas: Alberta, Canada; New Mexico; Utah.
How were they discovered?[edit | edit source]
Parasaurolophus were discovered in the year 1920, from a fossil in near Sand Creek along the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada. They were named by a man named William Parks
What do we need to learn?[edit | edit source]
- Where they actually lived
- Their speed