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Corythosaurus Palæont.|ˌkɒrɪθəʊˈsɔːrəs|
[mod.L., f. Gr. κόρῠθο-ς crested + σαῦρος lizard.]
An extinct genus of dinosaurian reptiles remains of which were found in Alberta, Canada, in 1912; so called because of their crested skulls. Also (with lower-case initial), a reptile of this genus.
1914B. Brown in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXIII. 559 (title) Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous. Ibid. 565 Corythosaurus. —Skull short with high anterior, helmet-like crest formed by nasals, prefrontals and frontals. 1933A. S. Romer Vertebrate Paleontology ix. 199 In Corythosaurus we find a peculiar, thin, hollow, dome-like structure capping the skull. 1957New Yorker 2 Nov. 32/1 He was working on a corythosaurus, a large, herbivorous, duck-billed type [of dinosaur]. |