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Williamson later published an independent review of the remains, disagreeing with the taxonomic conclusions. During the events of 2022, several of these hadrosaurs were captured and transferred to the Biosyn Sanctuary, where they can be studied.

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The specimen was found in either the top of the Fruitland Formation or, more likely, the base of the overlying Kirtland Formation.

Parasaurolophus appears briefly at the beginning of the Disney Pixar film The Good Dinosaur, along with a Diplodocus. cyrtocristatus have a different color scheme being a lime color with the upper body being a dark green albeit split in the middle. Charonosaurus from China, which may have been its closest relative, had a similar skull and potentially a similar crest.

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A Parasaurolophus made brief appearances in the Cretaceous Cruise and the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo. The paint job is similar to the colour pattern the Parasaurolophus in the movie featured, except less detailed (it’s a toy after all). A juvenile Parasaurolophus braincase from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, with comments on crest ontogeny in the genus.

As a large object, the crest has clear value as a visual signal, and sets this animal apart from its contemporaries. Though a hatchling Parasaurolophus was made for the JPS2 toy line, an adult model wasn’t created (unlike for most hatchlings of the two JP toy lines). It is likely that the hadrosaur now live free in the wild or continue to thrive at the sanctuary which is now global. There is at least one example, in the related Corythosaurus, of a slender stapes (reptilian ear bone) in place, which combined with a large space for an eardrum implies a sensitive middle ear. Scientists Use Digital Paleontology to Produce Voice of Parasaurolophus Dinosaur; from Sandia National Laboratories.