Parksosaurus
Parksosaurus warreni
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.
- Family
- Thescelosauridae
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (66.5–66.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 2.4 m
- Weight
- 40–60 kg
- Type locality
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada
- Holotype
- ROM 804
- PBDB
- txn:38739