Parasaurolophus Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ostrom 1961
/ˌpærəsɔːˈrɒləfəs/
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
United States
Regions
New Mexico · Utah
Formations
Fruitland · Kaiparowits
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Overview
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus 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 New Mexico, United States. It was named by Ostrom 1961. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus sits in deep time
Parasaurolophus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus'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.