ko-RITH-o-sawr-us
"Helmet Lizard"
-A LAMBEOSAURINE Hadrosaur
-Late Cretaceous
-30 feet (9.1 m) long; 2 to 3 tons (1.8 to 2.7 metric tons)
-hollow, helmet-shaped crest adorned its long, narrow head
-hundreds of teeth lined its jaws
-skin had pebbly surface, similar to the feel of a football
-3 rows of larger bumps called tubercles covered its belly
-BIPEDAL land dweller, fast runner
-ate twigs, leaves, pine needles
-nearly complete skeleton found in Alberta Canada
Classification: Hadrosauridae, Ornithopoda, Ornithischia
Return to Barnum Brown
Forward to PROSAUROLOPHUS (named 1916)
