Parksosaurus

Parksosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 69.5 Ma
Skull cast of Parksosaurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Pyrodontia
Family: Thescelosauridae
Subfamily: Thescelosaurinae
Genus: Parksosaurus
C. M. Sternberg, 1937
Species:
P. warreni
Binomial name
Parksosaurus warreni
(Parks, 1926 [originally Thescelosaurus])
Synonyms

Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull, showing it to have been a small, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur. It is one of the few described non-hadrosaurid ornithopods from the end of the Cretaceous in North America, existing around 70 million years ago.