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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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.

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

El dinosaurio mexicano, que convivio con pequenos mamiferos, lagartos, tortugas y otros dinosaurios, se asemeja mucho a otros con pico de pato, conocidos como Corythosaurus, los cuales vivieron hace unos 69 millones de anos en la provincia de Alberta, en Canada.

Descubre paleontologa mexicana nueva especie de dinosaurio: la especie vivio hace 72 millones de anos en el hoy estado de Coahuila

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.