Parasaurolophus walkeri holotype, ROM 768
The type specimen of the crested hadrosaur, a near-complete skeleton from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.
76.5 to 74 Ma · Dinosaur Park Formation, southern Alberta, Canada · CTF-PAL-000001
3D model from Royal Ontario Museum (loads on request)
Embedded 3D model of a Parasaurolophus skull from the holding museum.
About this record
The holotype skeleton was collected in 1920 by a University of Toronto party and described by William Parks in 1922. The long tubular crest houses looping nasal passages. The specimen is the anatomical basis for every later reconstruction of the animal's voice in this archive.
Connections
Reconstructed as
- Parasaurolophus crest resonance, reconstructed callT4 Reconstructed76.5 to 74 Ma · link T4
The call is modelled from the crest airways of this specimen and its relatives.
Diegert, C. F. and Williamson, T. E. (1998). A digital acoustic model of the lambeosaurine hadrosaur Parasaurolophus tubicen. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3).
Living relative
- Capercaillie display call, CairngormsT1 Recorded2019 · link T3
Birds are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs; hadrosaurs are a more distant branch. The link illustrates deep-time kinship rather than direct descent.
Brusatte, S. L. et al. (2015). The origin and diversification of birds. Current Biology 25(19).