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Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Parasaurolophus

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Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur, or a duck-billed dinosaur.

Parasaurolophus may have looked like this.

What did they look like?

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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?

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They ate plants and shrubs.

When did they live?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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  • Where they actually lived
  • Their speed