Parksosaurus Parksosaurus
"[[William Parks (paleontologist)|William Parks"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Parksosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (69.5 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Canada · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Thescelosauridae
Parksosaurus (meaning “William Parks’s lizard”) is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-aged (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.
What we know
- Named by (Parks, 1926 [originally Thescelosaurus]).
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in North America and Canada.