Description
Parkosaurus Dinosaur Tooth
- Parkosaurus
- Cretaceous Age
- Hell Creek Formation
- South Dakota
- This TINY specimen measures approx. 1.4″ long and will come in a 1.25″ gem jar
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Parksosaurus (meaning “William Parks’s lizard”) is a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous. Originally found in the 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.
It was an ornithopod dinosaur, named after William Parks, the paleontologist, who discovered it first in 1937. It was a smallish dinosaur – roughly 2.5 m long. It didn’t have any particular anatomical features and was a distant relative of the bigger hadrosaurs, such as Anatotitan. It was a close relative of Thescelosaurus. This dinosaur had at least eighteen teeth in the maxilla and about twenty in the lower jaw; the number of teeth in the premaxilla is unknown.
