![]() ![]() Fossilized skin and hand-prints have been found.Ī Lambeosaurus word hunt activity - For second and third graders.Ī Lambeosaurus brief fact sheet, or go to a printable version. It was the first duck-billed dinosaur found in North America. Many fossils have been found in North America, including Montana (USA), Baja California (Mexico), and Alberta (Canada). Parks in 1923 to honor Lawrence Lambe, an early Canadian fossil hunter. It probably went on all fours to forage for plants. Lambeosaurus walked and ran on two legs, and was a relatively fast dinosaur. Lambeosaurus was an ornithopod, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was midway among the dinosaurs. Lambeosaurus was an herbivore, eating pine needles, the leaves of flowering trees, and twigs. Lambeosaurus was a herding animal that may have migrated from shorelines to higher ground to reproduce. A huge, mass extinction killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago Among the contemporaries of Lambeosaurus in the late Cretaceous (in North America) were Albertosaurus, Nanotyrannus, Parasaurolophus, Corythosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Kritosaurus, T. ![]() Lambeosaurus lived during the Cretaceous period, about 83 to 65 million years ago, at the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles. Family Lambeosaurinae - hollow-crested duckbills.Superfamily Hadrosauroidea - duck-billed dinosaurs.Infraorder Iguanodontia - having spiked thumbs.Order Ornithischia - bird-hipped dinosaurs.Class Archosauria ( diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.).Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain).It is the largest-known duck-bill dinosaur. Lambeosaurus grew to be about 30-50 feet long (9-15 m), weighing 5.6 tons. Its sight and hearing were keen, but it had no natural defenses. Lambeosaurus had pebbly-textured skin and may have had webbed fingers. Males may have had larger crests than females. Its snout was narrow and ended in a beak that was wide and blunt. Lambeosaurus' nostrils went up through the crest. ![]() 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 used in courtship displays. Lambeosaurus was a crested, duck-billed dinosaur. is a user-supported site.Īs a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. ![]()
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