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Lambeosaurus Fact Sheet

Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary
NAME: Meaning - Lambeosaurus means "Lambe's lizard," named to honor the Canadian paleontologist Lawrence Lambe
Pronounced - LAM-be-o-SAWR-us
Named By - William Arthur Parks
When Named - 1923
DIET: Herbivore (plant-eater), perhaps eating pine needles, conifers, ginkgos, seeds, cycads, twigs, and magnolia leaves.
SIZE: Length - 30-50 feet (9-15 m) long
Height - 7 feet (2.1 m) tall at the hips
Weight - about 5.6 tons
WHEN IT LIVED: Late Cretaceous period, about 80 to 65 million years ago
WHERE IT LIVED: Fossils have been found in western North America, including Montana (USA), Baja California (Mexico), and Alberta (Canada).
FOSSILS: Many fossils have been found in western North America. Lambeosaurus was the first duck-billed dinosaur found in North America. Fossilized skin and hand-prints have been found.
CLASSIFICATION:
  • Kingdom Animalia (animals)
  • Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
  • Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)
  • Order Ornithischia - bird-hipped dinosaurs
  • Suborder Ornithopoda
  • Infraorder Iguanodontia - having spiked thumbs
  • Superfamily Hadrosauroidea - duck-billed dinosaurs
  • Family Lambeosaurinae - hollow-crested duckbills
  • Genus Lambeosaurus
  • Species L. lambei (type species named by Parks, 1923)
INTERESTING
FACTS:
Lambeosaurus was a crested, duck-billed dinosaur. Its forward-leaning, hollow, bony crest was as big or bigger than the rest of its skull and may have been used to produce sounds, enhance its sense of smell, and/or add to its courtship display. Lambeosaurus' nostrils went up through the crest. Its snout was narrow and ended in a beak that was wide and blunt.

Lambeosaurus walked and ran on two legs, and was a relatively fast dinosaur. It probably went on all fours to forage for plants.





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