Parksosaurus
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.
| Parksosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Skull cast of Parksosaurus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Parksosaurus warreni (Parks, 1926 [originally Thescelosaurus]) | |
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