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Parasaurolophus tubicen

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Parasaurolophus tubicen was named by Wiman (1931). Its type specimen is PMU.R 1250, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is De-na-zin Wash, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Parasaurolophus tubicen Wiman pp. 1-11
1933Parasaurolophus tubicen Nopcsa and Heidsieck p. 222
1935Parasaurolophus tubicen Gilmore p. 161
1940Parasaurolophus tubicen Wilfarth p. 17
1942Parasaurolophus tubicen Lull and Wright pp. 212-213 fig. 90
1946Parasaurolophus tubicen Russell p. 1
1964Parasaurolophus tubicen Kuhn p. 25
1967Parasaurolophus tubicen Charig p. 716
1970Parasaurolophus tubicen Swinton p. 226
1973Parasaurolophus tubicen Powell p. 118
1976Parasaurolophus tubicen Sloan p. 137
1981Parasaurolophus tubicen Lehman p. 198
1981Parasaurolophus tubicen Mateer p. 52
1983Parasaurolophus tubicen Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1987Parasaurolophus tubicen Lehman p. 207
1990Parasaurolophus tubicen Weishampel and Horner p. 557
1992Parasaurolophus tubicen Hunt and Lucas p. 228
1997Parasaurolophus tubicen Ryan p. 391
1999Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan and Williamson p. 7
1999Parasaurolophus tubicen Williamson p. 44
2000Parasaurolophus tubicen Williamson p. 194
2003Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan and Lucas p. 102A
2004Parasaurolophus tubicen Horner et al. p. 442
2005Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan et al. p. 398
2006Parasaurolophus tubicen Lund and Gates p. 274
2006Parasaurolophus tubicen Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 937
2007Parasaurolophus tubicen Evans and Reisz p. 385
2007Parasaurolophus tubicen Gates et al. p. 923
2009Parasaurolophus tubicen Evans et al. p. 1316
2009Parasaurolophus tubicen Wagner and Lehman p. 606
2010Parasaurolophus tubicen Evans p. 416
2010Parasaurolophus tubicen Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010Parasaurolophus tubicen Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Parasaurolophus tubicen Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2011Parasaurolophus tubicen Jasinski et al. p. 250
2011Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan et al. p. 406
2011Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan and Lucas p. 431
2012Parasaurolophus tubicen Godefroit et al. p. 534
2012Parasaurolophus tubicen Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013Parasaurolophus tubicen Cruzado-Caballero et al.
2013Parasaurolophus tubicen Farke et al. p. 36
2014Parasaurolophus tubicen Sullivan and Lucas p. 372
2017Parasaurolophus tubicen Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12
2021Parasaurolophus tubicen Gates et al. p. 2
2021Parasaurolophus tubicen Kobayashi et al. p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyLambeosaurinae
tribeParasaurolophiniGlut 1997
genusParasaurolophus
speciestubicen

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-25 05:52:29
Modified: 2005-08-25 07:52:29
Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (New Mexico) Parasaurolophus tubicen (47201 type locality: 55295 138835 171030)