(pronounced PARR-oh-SAWR-us) Parrosaurus meaning Parr lizard, honoring Albert Eide Parr, an American zoologist) is an invalid name for Hypsibema , an ornithopod dinosaur (probably a duckbill, but only a few bones have been found) from the late Cretaceous period, about 83-73 million years ago. Parrosaurus missouriensis was named by paleontologist Ch...
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Parrosaurus This nomenclature (“Parr’s lizard” in honor of Albert Eide Parr, an American zoologist) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Hypsibema or Hadrosaurus. Named by U. S. paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore in 1945.
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