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Corythosaurus
Corythosaurus casuarius
CretaceousHerbivoreOrnithischianMedium
- Length 9 m
- Mass 3820 kg
Corythosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, about 77-75.7 million years ago, in what is now western North America. Its name is derived from the Greek word κόρυς, meaning "helmet", named and described in 1914 by Barnum Brown. Corythosaurus is now thought to be a lambeosaurine, thus related to Lambeosaurus, Nipponosaurus, Velafrons, Hypacrosaurus, and Olorotitan. Corythosaurus has an estimated length of 7.7-9 metres (25-30 ft) and has a skull, including the crest, that is 70.8 centimetres tall.
Attributes
- Length
- 9 m
- Mass
- 3820 kg
- Time range
- 83.6 - 72.2 Ma
- Size class
- Medium
- Region
- Canada
Sources
Facts are drawn from the Paleobiology Database and Wikipedia. Images are reconstructions, not photographs.
