0.7" Parasaurolophus Fossil Tooth Judith River Cretaceous Dinosaur MT COA Display

Location: Judith River Formation, Eastern Montana (Private Land Origin)

Weight: 0.2 Ounces

Dimensions: 0.7 Inches Long, 0.3. Inches Wide, 0.4 Inches Thick 

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Name: Parasaurolophus (Near lizard crest).

Named By: William Parks - 1922.

Diet: Herbivore.

Size: About 9.5 meters long for larger individuals.

Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.

Among all hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, Parasaurolophus is one of the most recognizable due to its distinctive skull crest. The name Parasaurolophus can be a bit cumbersome, historically based on the early view that it resembled Saurolophus ('lizard crest'), another genus with a skull crest. However, Saurolophus's crest is less prominent and less ornate. Modern systematics classify Parasaurolophus as a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid because of its hollow crest, while Saurolophus is the type genus of Saurolophinae (formerly Hadrosaurinae), a sister group characterized by solid or absent crests. This indicates that Parasaurolophus and Saurolophus are distantly related, but both are part of Hadrosauridae. Parasaurolophus is more closely related to other lambeosaurines like Hypacrosaurus, Corythosaurus, and the genus Lambeosaurus. Of these, the Asian Charonosaurus is thought to be one of Parasaurolophus’s closest relatives due to their similar head crests.