Parksosaurus
PARK-so-SORE-us /ˌpɑːrksəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Parks' lizard
- Parks · Latinised surname · William Arthur Parks, Canadian paleontologist who first described the species
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name honours William Arthur Parks, the Canadian paleontologist who first described the fossils in 1926 (as a species of Thescelosaurus). Combined with the Greek "sauros" (lizard), it means "Parks' lizard". The genus was created in 1937 for the species originally called Thescelosaurus warreni.
- Named by
- Sternberg
- Year named
- 1937
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada
A small, bipedal herbivorous ornithischian (neornithischian), usually placed in the Thescelosauridae/Parksosauridae. The type and only species is Parksosaurus warreni.