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PARKSOSAURUS
(parks-o-sore-us)
meaning: "Park's lizard"
Parksosaurus
Named By: C. M. Sternberg in 1937
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Location: Canada, Alberta - Horseshoe Cnayon Formation
Size: About 2.5 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial post cranial fossils
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda |
Also known as: | Thescelosaurus warreni |
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Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") is a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull, showing it to have been a small, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur. It is one of the few described non-hadrosaurid ornithopods from the end of the Cretaceous in North America, existing around 70 million years ago.

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