#Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

[eutrochiumfistulosum]

Kaiparowits Formation designed for the Paleo Parks series at Studio 252MYA. A pair of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus browse in a swamp towered over by conifers. Since I almost always put a shelly boy in my paleoart, a baeinid turtle sits on a log in the foreground. And there's an enantornithe up there, too... This is available to purchase at 252mya.com.

#paleoart #paleontology #illustration #natural history #science #dinosaurs #parasaurolophus #sciart #kaiparowits Formation #vector illustration #vectorart

[makairodonx]

Deinosuchus hatcheri ambushing a herd of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

#deinosuchus #parasaurolophus #paleoart #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontography #paleontology

[newlabdakos]

Parasaurolophus

(temporal range: 76.9-73.5 mio. years ago)

[text from the Wikipedia article, see also link above]

Parasaurolophus (/ˌpærəsɔːˈrɒləfəs, -ˌsɔːrəˈloʊfəs/; meaning "near crested lizard" in reference to Saurolophus) is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur that lived in what is now western North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.5–73 million years ago.[2] It was a herbivore that could move as both as a biped and as a quadruped. Three species are universally recognized: P. walkeri (the type species), P. tubicen, and the short-crested P. cyrtocristatus. Additionally, a fourth species, P. jiayinensis, has been proposed, although it is more commonly placed in the separate genus Charonosaurus. Remains are known from Alberta, New Mexico, and Utah, as well as possibly Heilongjiang if Charonosaurus is in fact part of the genus. The genus was first described in 1922 by William Parks from a skull and partial skeleton found in Alberta.

Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaurid, part of a diverse family of large Late Cretaceous ornithopods that known for their range of bizarre head adornments, which were likely used for communication and increased hearing. This genus is known for its large, elaborate cranial crest, which forms a long curved tube projecting upwards and back from the skull in its largest form. Charonosaurus from China, which may have been its closest relative, had a similar skull and a potentially similar crest. Visual recognition of both species and sex, acoustic resonance, and thermoregulation have been proposed as functional explanations for the crest. It is one of the rarer hadrosaurids, known from only a handful of good specimens.

#science #paleontology #parasaurolophus

[pixel-dinosaurs-daily]

i am in LOVE with your pixel art! as a paleontologist myself, i adore your paleoart! if you do requests, i’d love to see a parasaurolophus :)

OUAH i really appreciate it!!! especially coming from a paleontologist <:] im trying to separate diets by week (<- has just remembered omnivores exist and now this is a problem But Its Ok) so they might not come until later but absolutely!!! paras are absolutely gorgeous and i think cyrtocristatus in particular has a great shapes :] good taste in Big Fellas !!

#not dinosaurs #requests r always cool also !! theres so many dinosaurs and Deciding On A Guy is A Little Difficult ! #so come. tell me about your favorite guy :]

[lauras-happy-place]

Parasaurolophus walkeri

('near/beside Saurolophus ['reptile crest'], for Byron Edmond Walker')

Lambeosaurinae Parasaurolophini

An icon; a sleek, big beautiful beast of a hadrosaur; represents the West for me as much as the bison.😆

Parasaurolophus comes in three delicious flavours:

P. walkeri (type), Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada, ~76.9 - 75.8 Ma.;

P. cyrtocristatus ('short-crested'), Fruitland Formation, New Mexico, and Kaiparowits Formation, Utah, USA, ~75.5 - 74.5 Ma.;

and with a 2 m skull, the largest of the three, P. tubicen ('trumpeter'), Kirtland Formation, New Mexico, USA, ~76.6 - 74.5 Ma.

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Artwork by Anthony Hutchings.

Daily Dino Fact #37

#parasaurolophus #special interest #dinos #dinosaurs #fun fact #daily dino facts

[dinodorks]

Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus in the Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum 

by Dallas Krentzel

#Parasaurolophus #Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus #Hadrosaur #Dinosaur #Photo #Skeleton #Mesozoic #Cretaceous #Field Museum #Museum #Palaeoblr

[theoldbone]

New research published today in PeerJ  on an amazing specimen of Parasaurolophus from the Fruitland Formation of northwestern New Mexico. The amazing preservation of the skull reveals in detail the bones that make up the iconic tubes, demonstrating that the crest of Parasaurolophus is constructed just like those of other, less tubular, lambeosaurines. The new skull also helped to firmly establish the validity of this species, P. cyrtocristatus, and links it with other "southern" species!.The fossil was discovered in the BLM managed Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, underscoring the importance of public lands for science. The region is also part of the ancestral lands of many indigenous groups including the Dine (Navajo Nation) and other Puebloan people, making this an important heritage fossil as well.

Artwork by the amazing Andrey Atuchin  based on this new specimen!

#parasaurolophus #paleontology #dinosaur #cyrtocristatus #andrey atuchin

[alphynix]

Weird Heads Month #21: Honking Hadrosaurs

The ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs weren't the only ornithischian dinosaurs to do weird things with their skulls.

The hadrosaurs are commonly referred to as "duck-bills" (despite how their beaks weren't actually duck-like at all), and are famous for the elaborate crests seen on some of the group's members, with shapes ranging from lobes to helmets to hatchets to spikes – and even some of the apparently crestless species are now known to have sported fleshy combs instead of the bony structures seen in their relatives.

But by far the most recognizable of the crested hadrosaurs is Parasaurolophus walkeri, with its long curved backwards-pointing tubular crest.

This particular species was mid-sized for the genus, growing up to around 10m long (32'10") and is known from Western North America during the Late Cretaceous, about 76-73 million years ago.

Its crest was intermediate in size and shape between the other two known species. The larger Parasaurolophus tubicen had a longer and slightly straighter crest, while the smaller Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus had a shorter more strongly curved one. Juveniles developed these crests as they matured, starting off with much smaller bumps on their snouts that gradually grew backwards and upwards.

Some hadrosaur crests were purely for visual display, but in the lambeosaurine lineage that Parasaurolophus belonged to they also incorporated complex looping nasal passages that were probably used as resonating chambers, allowing each species to make a unique-sounding loud bellowing call to communicate with each other.

There are also rumors of a currently-undescribed specimen of Parasaurolpphus that has preserved soft tissue around its crest, possibly a keratinous covering or skin flaps that made it appear even larger and more flamboyant in life than the underlying bone. So I've given this reconstruction a speculative structure like that, along with hoof-like claws on its hands similar to those recently revealed for Edmontosaurus.

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#weird heads 2020 #science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #parasaurolophus #lambeosaurinae #hadrosauridae #hadrosaur #ornithopod #ornithischia #dinosaur #art #duck bills #big honkin' snoots #chonk honkers

[reneg661]

Is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and as a quadruped. Three species are universally recognized: P. walkeri (the type species), P. tubicen, and the short-crested P. cyrtocristatus. Additionally, a fourth species, P. jiayensis, has been proposed, although it is more commonly placed in the separate genus Charonosaurus. Remains are known from Alberta (Canada), New Mexico and Utah (United States), and possibly Heilongjiang, (China). The genus was first described in 1922 by William Parks from a skull and partial skeleton found in Alberta. Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaurid, part of a diverse family of Cretaceous dinosaurs known for their range of bizarre head adornments. This genus is known for its large, elaborate cranial crest, which at its largest forms a long curved tube projecting upwards and back from the skull. Charonosaurus from China, which may have been its closest relative, had a similar skull and potentially a similar crest. Visual recognition of both species and sex, acoustic resonance, and thermoregulation have been proposed as functional explanations for the crest. It is one of the rarer hadrosaurids, known from only a handful of good specimens.

Herbivore

Parasaurolophus (c) Jurassic World Art (c) reneg661

#parasaurolophus

[narcoleptic-drag-queen]

Hi hun! Could I request 35+M for scyvie? Thanks! 🌞

i literally just read ‘daybreak over manhattan’ and then i ran to go write this for you because that fic was truly miraculous. i would DIE for you. also, this is absolutely not me pushing my paleontologist/jurassic park scyvie dream on yall. not at all

35 - “I’m not being nice because I want to sleep with you, but I definitely do want to sleep with you.”

M - In Vino Veritas

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Yvie, as a rule, does not hang out with work friends outside of work.

College professors aren’t a lot of fun to go out with. ‘Going out’ means sitting at a bar, getting drunk on whiskey and cocktails, and whining about students and grading and research. Yvie would rather sit at home with her cat and leftover takeout - watching The Shining for the millionth time will always be more entertaining than Nina’s students violating her late policy.

Scarlet, though - Scarlet’s different. 

Scarlet is new to the university, a recent graduate from a doctoral program somewhere on the Pacific Coast. Yvie hadn’t bothered to investigate any further than that, too engrossed in trying to get the grant she wants for her dig proposal and dealing with students that don’t seem to understand that, but she’d appreciated the beaming smiles she got in the mornings, passing by one of Scarlet’s classrooms on her way to her office. 

It was that same smile that convinced her to break her rule, Scarlet clearly expecting Yvie to agree to her invitation for drinks and already grinning in anticipation. Yvie was not going to be the one that made it fall. And besides - maybe Scarlet’s a little more fun than the others. She is from California, after all.

After around five consecutive weekends out with this woman, Yvie thinks she can safely say that she was right. Scarlet is so fun. She’s also maybe the best person Yvie’s ever met, but that’s an issue for a later date.

“Girl, what is that?” Yvie cackles, as the bartender slides Scarlet another deep purple shot. A ‘purple nurple’, is what the bartender called it. “Your fifth one?”

“Sixth!” Scarlet hoots, and her voice is a little slurred. Her nose is flushed pink. Yvie has the sudden urge to kiss it, and the thought is suddenly sobering, her own three purple nurples running a little less warm in her veins. “And don’t call me ‘girl’.’

Yvie laughs at her, shaking off the feeling. She’s just drunk. Developing feelings for someone this quickly - no. She’s definitely just drunk. “Why not?”

“Because I graduated,” Scarlet explains, raising her eyebrows drunkenly, and Yvie thinks she might be the only person she knows who can make her own eyebrows look toasted. “With honors. I’m a woman now, Yves.”

Yvie pretends her heart doesn’t flutter at the nickname, instead snorting at the way Scarlet is trying to look at her severely. “Yeah, of course,” she says, smiling to show she’s teasing. “The true mark of womanhood: a dissertation on the pack instinct of Hadrosaurids.”

“Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus,” Scarlet corrects, not even stumbling across the eleven syllables, and Yvie raises her hands up in surrender. 

“Of course,” she says, and Scarlet gives a short nod. She then downs her purple nurple, and when she looks back at Yvie, her teeth are a little purple. She looks adorable.

“I bet you graduated with honors,” she says, and Yvie raises her eyebrows. “You’re so smart.”

“Am I?” Yvie jokes, but Scarlet doesn’t laugh, instead widening her eyes earnestly. She leans forward, grabbing Yvie's arm gently. Yvie’s heartbeat picks up as she looks back at Scarlet, fighting the blush that wants to creep into her cheeks.

“You’re so smart,” Scarlet tells her, eyes stern. “And so talented. And so wonderful.”

“I haven’t even had my own dig yet,” Yvie laughs, and she’s certain that her face is bright red. She’s giggling, a little, which is horrifying. Yvie shouldn’t be giggling around her brand new coworker, no matter how hot and sweet and funny she is.

“You’re about to!” Scarlet exclaims, squeezing Yvie’s arm a little tighter and shaking her, a little. “You’re going to get that grant, because you’re the best and you know what you’re doing! And then you’re going to find so many velociraptors that you won’t even know what to do with them all!”

Scarlet is drunk. She is so, so drunk, drunker than Yvie, but that doesn’t stop Yvie from leaning a little closer, from letting it go to her head, a little. And maybe to other places. “Flattery isn’t going to get me to sleep with you,” she jokes, grinning. “I’m more of a third date kind of woman.”

Scarlet makes a shocked expression so exaggerated that Yvie almost thinks it’s fake. “No!” Scarlet says, and Yvie’s heart drops into her stomach. “No, Yvie! I’m not being nice because I want to sleep with you,” she leans in even closer, waggling her eyebrows, “but I definitely do want to sleep with you.”

Yvie’s mouth goes dry. “Why, then?” she asks faintly, because she doesn’t know how to interpret the relief rushing through her, as well as the anxiety. 

Scarlet shakes her head. “Because you’re so pretty,” she slurs, and Yvie is reminded of just how hammered she is. “And nice. And hot. And perfect.”

“I’m a little less than perfect,” Yvie says, laughing awkwardly. 

“Well, you’re perfect to me. You’re marriage material.”

Yvie stands up so suddenly her stool nearly falls over, her face burning and her heart stammering in her chest. “Alright!” she says abruptly, taking Scarlet’s hand and pulling her off of her stool. “We should get you home before you get alcohol poisoning.”

“Really?” Scarlet pouts, and Yvie wants to tell her no. Wants to sit at the bar and flirt back and maybe make out with her in the alleyway. But she’s a little too sober and a little too professional, so she says yes, and drags Scarlet outside to call a cab.

Scarlet snuggles her in the back of the taxi the entire way to her apartment. Yvie doesn’t know what’s she’s done to make God so upset with her, but it must have been truly horrible. 

Scarlet continues to cling to her as when she walks her back up to her apartment. Yvie pretends not to be enjoying it, instead managing to maintain a relatively straight face when she leads Scarlet back to where her bedroom is, after some guesswork. She lets Scarlet fall onto the bed, ready to yank off the little heels she’s wearing, bring her a glass of water, and call it a night, but Scarlet clearly has other plans.

She yanks Yvie into bed with her, her hands curled around Yvie’s wrists, and Yvie lands on top of her with an oof. There’s a long pause in which they just stare at each other, Yvie shocked and Scarlet smug, before Scarlet leans her head back with a sigh.

 “This is nice,” she says, pleased, and Yvie pushes herself off of her and back into the floor, her ears burning. 

“Scarlet, I’m going to just--”

Scarlet sits back up, propping herself onto her elbows. She looks hurt, and Yvie’s heart skips a beat. “Can’t you stay?” she asks. “Please?”

Yvie looks at her for a long time, debating. She and Scarlet have grown close in the last month, laughing and bonding over a different drink each outing, so this shouldn’t be weird. She should be able to stay over at Scarlet’s without a second thought, pleased to have a new friend, especially in the sea of dullness that mainly occupies her social circle.

On the other hand: there’s no way Yvie will survive sleeping in the same bed as Scarlet without spontaneously combusting.

“Please?” Scarlet repeats, sticking her lip out a little, and Yvie is tempted to call her a brat. She would, if the circumstances were a little different. Instead, she relents with a sigh.

“Alright,” she says. “I’ll take the couch.”

Scarlet’s bright grin makes it worth it.

Yvie can only hope that it’s still worth it in the morning, when Scarlet is sober and less touchy-feely. 

Yvie can only hope that this wasn’t her only shot.

#i will be leaving a proper review on daybreak later but i had to do this immediately #scyvie #writing #prompts #ask game #also not proofread

[amaze-animalia]

Parasaurolophus

This dinosaur was an herbivore in the Late Cretaceous period, roughly 76 - 74 million years ago. There are three recognized species of Parasaurolophus- P. walkeri, P. tubicen, and P. cyrtocristatus. The parasaurolophus was found in North America and possibly Asia. They could walk as both a biped (on two legs) and a quadruped (on four legs). These dinosaurs were at a height of approximately 16 feet and a length of 33 feet.

This dinosaur is known for their large cranial crest protruding from the rear of the head. The crest was hollow inside with chambers merging into the nasal passages. This feature most likely acted as resonating device to produce more long-distance bellows used for communication. It also may have helped to regulate their temperature. They were also a duck-billed dinosaur, or a hadrosaur.

All information comes from Wikipedia and [here]. Images are not mine.

#dinosaur #prehistoric #animal facts #parasaurolophus #mine #aze’s animals

[earthstory]

Parasaurolophus

Common name: Parasaurolophus (Parah-sore-oh-loh-fuss) Size: 9.5 metres (31 feet) Age: Campanian to Cretaceous (76.5 – 73 million years ago) Geographic range: North America Liked: Grazing Disliked: the T-Rex Taxonomy: Animalia > Chordata > Dinosauria > Ornithiscia > Hadrosauridae > Parasaurolophus

The Parasaurolophus was an herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. It was both biped and quadruped, and is easily identified by its huge head crest. Three species of Parasaurolophus have been identified: P. walkeri,P. tubicen, and P. cyrtocristatus. There have been many supported hypotheses on what the crest does for the species:

1) Species identification: different crest sizes or colours between different parasaurolophus species living in one area would help differentiate between the species during mating. 2) Auditory communication: the hollow crest acts as a resonator to amplify calls and create a broader frequency. Because shape and size varies between Parasaurolophus species, the resonation also varies, which could act as another type of species identification. 3) Honest advertising: males advertise better strength and more suitable paternity over other males by displaying louder and longer calls. 4) Thermoregulation: the crest provides additional surface area for temperature exchange to help cool down the skull and brain.

Unsupported/disproved hypotheses for the crest are: 1) Air reservoir: air storage when underwater. This is unlikely because of the very small space in the crest. 2) Snorkel: Not feasible because the crest is a closed structure of solid bone. 3) Lethal weapon: Not likely, due to positioning. 4) Attachment of proboscis: Not likely, due to positioning. 5) Branch guard: Not needed. 6) Storage of salt glands: salt glands are common in oceanic birds. They collect salt in their salt gland from sea water they've drunk, and excrete it from their eyes or nose. However, the parasaurolophus did not live near salt water, and therefore this was an unlikely hypothesis.

~Rosie

Image: http://bit.ly/1KKM4ju http://bit.ly/1PnD98t

Reference: http://bit.ly/1Rbt9Tm

#Parasaurolophus #dinosaur #fossil #fossils #crest #fossilfriday #geology #animal #science

[hazerl]

Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus | Oct 2017 - Jan 2019 | micron pen

#parasaurolophus #skeleton #scientific illustration #dinosaur #illustration #hazerl #stipple

[gaetaniu]

I paleontologi trovano un cranio ben conservato di un dinosauro a cresta tubolare

I paleontologi trovano un cranio ben conservato di un dinosauro a cresta tubolare

Ricostruzione artistica della testa del Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus. L’eccezionale conservazione di un nuovo cranio parziale di Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, una specie di dinosauro dal becco d’anatra vissuto durante il Cretaceo, ha finalmente rivelato la struttura della sua bizzarra cresta ornamentale dopo decenni di disaccordi tra gli scienziati. Parasaurolophus è un genere di dinosauri…

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[lauras-happy-place]

Parasaurolophus walkeri

('near/beside Saurolophus ['reptile crest'], for Byron Edmond Walker')

Lambeosaurinae Parasaurolophini

Parasaurolophus is represented by three species:

P. walkeri (type), Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada, ~76.9 - 75.8 Ma.;

P. cyrtocristatus ('short-crested'), Fruitland Formation, New Mexico, and Kaiparowits Formation, Utah, USA, ~75.5 - 74.5 Ma.;

and with a 2 m skull, the largest of the three, P. tubicen ('trumpeter'), Kirtland Formation, New Mexico, USA, ~76.6 - 74.5 Ma.

~

Artwork by Mohamad Haghani

Daily Dino Fact #29

#special interest #dinos #dinosaurs #fun fact #daily dino facts #parasaurolophus

[campplay]

Jaw Dropping New Dinosaur Skull Discovery Reveals Evolution of Bizarre Crest

Jaw Dropping New Dinosaur Skull Discovery Reveals Evolution of Bizarre Crest

Life reconstruction of the head of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus based on newly discovered remains. Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin The first new skull of a rare species of the dinosaur Parasaurolophus (recognized by the large hollow tube that grows on its head) discovered in 97 years. Exquisite preservation of the new skull gives paleontologists their first opportunity to definitively…

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