HardLambeosaurus
Lambeosaurus lambei
LAM-bee-oh-SORE-us· “Lambe's lizard”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Hadrosauridae
9 m
Length
3 m
Height
3 t
Weight
A duck-billed plant-eater crowned with a hollow, hatchet-shaped crest on its head. The crest was filled with air tubes that may have let it trumpet loud calls.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~76–75 million years ago
Found in
Canada
Discovered
William Parks, 1923
Did you know?
- Its hollow head crest was shaped like a hatchet or axe blade.
- Air passages inside the crest may have worked like a trumpet to make sounds.
- It was named in honour of Canadian palaeontologist Lawrence Lambe.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.