Corythosaurus

Corythosaurus casuarius

Corythosaurus had a distinctive helmet-shaped crest on its head. Like other lambeosaurine hadrosaurs, this crest was a resonating chamber that could produce deep honking sounds. Multiple well-preserved specimens have been found.

Physical Description

Measurement	Value	Human Scale
लंबाई	9.0 m	roughly the length of a large SUV
Height	2.7 m	—
वजन	3.8 t	comparable to 3.8 small cars

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Corythosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Late Mesozoic Era

Corythosaurus lived during the Cretaceous Late period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 100.5 to 66.0 million years ago.

The final age of dinosaurs, featuring iconic species like Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Velociraptor. Dinosaurs reached their peak diversity before the catastrophic asteroid impact at the Chicxulub crater ended the Mesozoic Era.

Discovery & Naming

नामकर्ता	Barnum Brown
खोज वर्ष	1914
खोज स्थान	Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada

वर्गीकरण

Dinosauria → Ornithischia → Hadrosauridae → Corythosaurus

Duck-billed dinosaurs

Large herbivorous dinosaurs with broad, flattened snouts resembling duck bills. Many species had elaborate cranial crests used for display or vocalization. Extremely successful in the Late Cretaceous.

Size Comparison

At 9.0 meters long and 3800.0 kg, Corythosaurus was roughly the length of a large SUV and comparable to 3.8 small cars.

Other dinosaurs from the same period:

Abelisaurus comahuensis Adasaurus mongoliensis Adynomosaurus arcanus Byronosaurus Byronosaurus jaffei Caenagnathasia

Quick Facts

वर्गीकरण	Hadrosauridae
भूवैज्ञानिक युग	Cretaceous Late
आहार	Herbivore
आकार	9.0m long, 2.7m tall, 3.8t