Parksosaurus
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Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") is a genus of neornithischian 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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Skull cast of Parksosaurus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Family: | †Thescelosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Thescelosaurinae |
Genus: | †Parksosaurus C. M. Sternberg, 1937 |
Species: | †P. warreni |
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†Parksosaurus warreni (Parks, 1926 [originally Thescelosaurus]) | |
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