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