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Parasaurolophus, a crested hadrosaur.. Hadrosaurids, also commonly referred to as duck-billed dinosaurs or hadrosaurs, were large terrestrial herbivores.The diet of hadrosaurid dinosaurs remains a subject of debate among paleontologists, especially regarding whether hadrosaurids were grazers who fed on vegetation close to the ground, or browsers who ate higher-growing leaves and twigs.
Parasaurolophus (/ ˌ p ær ə s ɔː ˈ r ɒ l ə f ə s,-ˌ s ɔːr ə ˈ l oʊ f ə s /; meaning "beside crested lizard" in reference to Saurolophus) [2] is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur that lived in what is now western North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.9–73.5 million years ago. [3]
Map of various hadrosaur taxa across North America Hadrosaurids likely originated in North America, before shortly dispersing into Asia. During the late Campanian - Maastrichtian , a saurolophine hadrosaurid migrated into South America from North America, giving rise to the clade Austrokritosauria , which is closely related to the tribe ...
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Reptiles of the Middle East. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A. Reptiles of the Arabian Peninsula (1 C, 61 P) I.
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' mounted Hadrosaurus, the first mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world Photograph of the site where the fossils were found (2010). In 1838, John Estaugh Hopkins was digging in a marl pit (on a small tributary of the Cooper River in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and part of the Campanian-age Woodbury Formation) when he uncovered large bones.
Corythosaurus (/ k ə ˌ r ɪ θ ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; [1] lit. ' helmeted lizard ') is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, about 77–75.7 million years ago, in what is now western North America.