Dinosaur
Parasaurolophus
The trumpet dinosaur, with a long hollow crest on its head.
Say it: pa-ra-saw-ROL-off-us
- Name means
- Like Saurolophus
- What it was
- A plant-eating dinosaur with a crest (an ornithopod)
- Size
- About 9 metres long and about 5 tonnes
- Ate
- Plants
- Lived
- Late Cretaceous, 77 to 73 million years ago
- Fossils found
- Canada and the USA
Facts for little ones
- It had a long, hollow crest on its head with tubes inside.
- It may have blown air through its crest to make a deep, trumpeting call.
- It could walk on four legs or on two.
Parasaurolophus in Dinolets
Parasaurolophus is egg number 8 of 12. In the game it's pink, and its special feature is the one the voice calls out: "A long crest!"
In Feed it eats plants, and from level 2 your child is asked to pick the right food for it. Once it has hatched, it joins in the other games too.
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