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Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	66260	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=66260

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Hadrosauridae : Parasaurolophus : Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Ornithischia
-	Neornithischia
-	Ornithopoda
-	Iguanodontia
-	Dryomorpha	Sereno 1986
-	Ankylopollexia	Sereno 1986
-	Styracosterna	Sereno 1986
-	Hadrosauriformes	Sereno 1997
-	Hadrosauroidea
family	Hadrosauridae	Cope 1869
subfamily	Lambeosaurinae	Parks 1923
tribe	Parasaurolophini	Glut 1997
genus	Parasaurolophus	Parks 1922
species	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	Ostrom 1961

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated without evidence	Ostrom, 1961
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated with evidence	Weishampel and Horner, 1990
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated without evidence	Hunt and Lucas, 1992
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated with evidence	Horner et al., 2004
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated without evidence	Gates, 2004
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated with evidence	Cruzado-Caballero et al., 2013
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus	species	belongs to Parasaurolophus	stated without evidence	Sullivan and Lucas, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Ornithischia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Diet

herbivore (based on Ornithopoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. H. Ostrom. 1961. A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):575-577

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1961	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ostrom p. 575 fig. 1a
1963	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Anonymous p. 340
1963	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Nelson p. 2
1963	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ostrom p. 144 figs. 83-94
1964	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Kuhn p. 25
1970	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Swinton p. 225
1973	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Powell p. 118
1980	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Wolberg p. 34
1981	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Lehman p. 204
1983	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1989	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Frances and Sanz p. 141
1990	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Weishampel and Horner p. 557
1992	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Hunt and Lucas p. 228
1997	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ryan p. 257
1998	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Godefroit et al. p. 38
1999	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Sullivan and Williamson p. 23
2000	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Williamson p. 194
2003	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Godefroit et al. p. 147
2003	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Sullivan and Lucas p. 102A
2004	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Gates p. 63A
2004	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Horner et al. p. 442

Year	Name and Author
2006	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Lund and Gates p. 274
2006	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Pereda Suberbiola et al. p. 227
2006	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márques et al. p. 934
2007	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Evans and Reisz p. 384
2007	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Gates et al. p. 921
2008	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Godefroit et al. p. 59
2009	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Evans et al. p. 1316
2010	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 828
2010	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2011	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márquez p. 64
2011	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Sullivan et al. p. 406
2011	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Sullivan et al. p. 472
2012	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Marquez et al. p. 21
2012	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márquez p. 524
2012	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Cruzado-Caballero et al.
2014	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Sullivan and Lucas p. 372
2014	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Tsogtbaatar et al. p. 126
2016	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Prieto-Márquez and Gutarra p. 141
2017	Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12

References

Ostrom J. H. (1961) A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of New Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 35 3, 575-577

Ostrom J. H. (1963) Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, a crested hadrosaurian dinosaur from New Mexico, Fieldiana (Geology) 14 8, 143-168

Swinton W. E. (1970) , The Dinosaurs, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1-331

Lehman T. M. (1981) The Alamo Wash local fauna: a new look at the old Ojo Alamo fauna, Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology. New Mexico University Press, Albuquerque, 189-221

Weishampel D. B., Weishampel J. B. (1983) Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography, The Mosasaur 1, 43-87

Frances V., Sanz J. L. (1989) Restos de dinosaurios del Cretacico Inferior de Buenache de la Sierra (Cuenca) [Dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Buenache de la Sierra (Cuenca)], La Fauna del Pasado en Cuenca. Actas del I Curso de Paleontología 1, 125-144

Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G. (1992) Stratigraphy, paleontology and age of the Fruitland and Kirtland formations (Upper Cretaceous), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society, 43rd Annual Fall Field Conference, San Juan Basin IV, Guidebook 43, 217-239

Ryan M. J. (1997) Fruitland Formation, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, 256-257

Godefroit P., Dong Z.-M., et al (1998) New Bactrosaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauroidea) material from Iren Dabasu (Inner Mongolia, P. R. China), Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 68 supplement, 3-70

Sullivan R. M., Williamson T. E. (1999) A new skull of Parasaurolophus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico and a revision of the genus., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 15, 1-52

Williamson T. E. (2000) Review of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 191-213

Godefroit P., Bolotsky Y., et al (2003) A remarkable hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for lambeosaurines, Comptes Rendus Palevol 2, 143-151

Horner J. R., Weishampel D. B., et al (2004) Hadrosauridae, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 438-463

Pereda Suberbiola X., Ruiz-Omeñaca J. I., et al (2006) Primera cita de un dinosaurio ornitópodo en el Cretácico Inferior (Berriasiense) del SO de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica (Palencia, España) [First note of an ornithopod dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of SW Vasco-Cantabrian Basin (Palencia, Spain), Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 19 3-4, 219-231

Prieto-Márques A., Gaete R., et al (2006) Hadrosauroid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Spain: Pararhabdodon isonensis revisited and Koutalisaurus kohlerorum, gen. et. sp. nov., Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 4, 929-943

Evans D. C., Reisz R. R. (2007) Anatomy and relationships of Lambeosaurus magnicristatus, a crested hadrosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 2, 373-393

Gates T. A., Sampson S. D., et al (2007) Velafrons coahuilensis, a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 4, 917-930

Godefroit P., Hai S., et al (2008) New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of northeastern China, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 1, 47-74

Prieto-Márquez A. (2010) Glishades ericksoni, a new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America, Zootaxa 2452, 1-17

Sullivan R. M., Jasinski S. E., et al (2011) The first lambeosaurin (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 405-417

Sullivan R. M., Lucas S. G., et al (2011) The humerus of a hatchling lambeosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) referable to cf. Parasaurolophus tubicen from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (De-na-zin Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53, 472-474

Prieto-Marquez A., Chiappe L. M., et al (2012) The lambeosaurine dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, northwestern Mexico, PLoS ONE 7 6, e38207:1-32 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038207

Prieto-Márquez A. (2012) The skull and appendicular skeleton of Gryposaurus latidens, a saurolophine hadrosaurid(Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the early Campanian (Cretaceous) of Montana, USA, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49 3, 510-532 doi:10.1139/E11-069

Ramírez-Velasco A. A., Benammi M., et al (2012) Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49, 379-395 doi:10.1139/E11-062

Cruzado-Caballero P., Canudo J. I., et al (2013) New material and phylogenetic position of Arenyasaurus ardevoli, a lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Late Maastrichtian of Aren (northern Spain), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 6, 1367-1384

Sullivan R. M., Lucas S. G. (2014) Stratigraphic distribution of hadrosaurids in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland, Kirtland, and Ojo Alamo formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Hadrosaurs, 361-384

Tsogtbaatar K., Weishampel D. B., et al (2014) A new hadrosaurid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of southern Mongolia, Hadrosaurs, 108-135

Prieto-Márquez A., Gutarra S. (2016) The ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs of Careless Creek (Upper Cretaceous of Montana, USA), with comments on hadrosaurid ontogeny, Journal of Paleontology 90 1, 133-146 doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.42

Cruzado-Caballero P., Powell J. E. (2017) Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 2, e1289381:1-16 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1289381

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