Dinosauria›Ornithischia›Ornithopoda›Hadrosauridae
Silhouette of Corythosaurus casuarius

Corythosaurus Corythosaurus casuarius Brown 1914

/kəˌrɪθəˈsɔːrəs/
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding

Where It Was Found

Country
Canada
Region
Alberta
Formations
Dinosaur Park · Oldman
Dig sites
11
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Canada. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Corythosaurus casuarius is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Alberta, Canada. It was named by Brown 1914. The species is represented by 17 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~49%
well attested
Based on 17 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Corythosaurus casuarius sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Corythosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Corythosaurus casuarius's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.

predator–prey
Hesperornis
Hesperornis regalis
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predator–prey
Gorgosaurus
Gorgosaurus libratus
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predator–prey
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus horneri
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coexisted–with
Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus apertus
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coexisted–with
Stegoceras
Stegoceras validum
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coexisted–with
Ichthyornis
Ichthyornis dispar
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coexisted–with
Protoceratops
Protoceratops andrewsi
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same–clade
Gasparinisaura
Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis
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