Re: More on Parasaurolophus

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Nicholas Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: n_gardner637@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: More on Parasaurolophus
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:26:49 -0400
>
>
> Thanks for the help so far and thanks to AM for the skeletal 
> reconstruction...I now have a few questions on Parasaurolophus...
>
> What horizon/formation did Parasaurolophus hail from?

P. walkeri: Dinosaur Park Fm (Alberta), Hell Creek Fm(?) (Montana).
P. tubicen: Kirtland Fm (New Mexico).
P. cyrtoccristatus: Fruitland Fm (New Mexico.

> What type of dinosaurs (including avians) are known from there?

Late Cretaceous (Dinosaur Park Fm, Hell Creek Fm(?), Fruitland Fm, Kirtland 
Fm fauna). I don't know for avians.

> Does anyone think it was possible that hypsilophodontids hunted bugs near 
> colonies of hadrosaurs like in "The Presence of Dinosaurs"?

I belive so, why not stealing vegitation from the youngsters in the nest?


Steven Coombs
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