OrnithischiaLambeosaurinaeParasaurolophusFMNH P27393

Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~7.6 m.
Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ostrom, 1961
Specimen
FMNH P27393
Reconstructed length
~7.6 m (25 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2004, revised 2018
Clade
  1. Ornithischia
  2. Neornithischia
  3. Ornithopoda
  4. Iguanodontia
  5. Hadrosauridae
  6. Lambeosaurinae

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A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid (hollow-crested duck-billed dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous of the western United States. This species of Parasaurolophus bore a shorter, more strongly curved version of the genus’s long backswept tubular head crest.

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