corythosaurus

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corythosaurus - duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet

duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur, hadrosaurus - any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic

genus Corythosaurus - genus of duck-billed dinosaurs of late Cretaceous

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The profile of Delapparentia differs slightly from Barilium (Norman, 2011a), with its gently convex dorsal margin, and fromMantellisaurus (Norman, 1986), with its dorsal margin straight in the central portion of the body but convex dorsal to the preacetabular notch, and differs clearly from basal iguanodonts such as Iguanaeolossus (McDonald et al., 2010b), Iguanodon (Norman, 1980) and Ouranosaurus (Taquet, 1976), with a clearly convex dorsal edge, and from hadrosauroids such as Gilmoreosaurus or Corythosaurus (McDonald et al., 2010b: fig.

New material and phylogenetic position of the basal iguanodont dinosaur Delapparentia turolensis from the Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Spain

When the ROM's Corythosaurus was mounted in 1932 at the entrance to the dinosaur gallery, this hadrosaur stood on its hind legs like a giant kangaroo, with its head almost touching the 17-foot (5-metre) ceiling and its tail drooping along the ground.

Boning up on comparative anatomy helped clarify how dinosaurs really stood and moved in life

She lines up with Elvissauras - the king of rock - and more traditional Jurassic Park favourites like T Rex, Stegosaurus, Corythosaurus and Parasaurolophus.