Parasaurolophus walkeri (meaning "near crested lizard") is an genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaur from Campanian Laramidia.
Fantasia (1940)[]
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Role Parasaurolophus are seen in this Disney film while they ate aquatic grasses with some Edmontosaurus and Corythosaurus only to escape from the sudden arrival of the t-rex, and watching the predator fight against a stegosaurus that was desperately trying to save itself and then starve along with all the dinosaurs..
Inaccuracies The Parasaurolophus are seen standing on two legs. But in reality, the "Parasaurolophus" were more comfortable on all fours, switching to their hind legs only when they ran away from the predators that chased them or grazed in the immense vegetation. In the film they feature visible fingers, but that in real life the fingers were embedded in the skin and fused into hoof-like structures.
The Land Before Time franchise[]
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Parasaurolophus are seen throughout The Land Before Time series.
Inaccuracies The Parasaurolophus like all of The Land Before Time’s hadrosaurs are seen standing on two legs. While the real animals could do this, Parasaurolophus were more comfortable on all fours, only switching to their hind legs when running away from predators pursuing them or browsing on high vegetation. They have visible fingers, while in reality, the fingers were embedded in skin and were fused into hoof-like structures.
Dink the little Dinosaur (1989)[]
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Dinosaurs (1991-1994)[]
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Dinosaur Walter Cronkite (1991)[]
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Jurassic Park franchise (1993- 2022)[]
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Power Rangers (franchise) (1993-2022)[]
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)[]
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Role An Parasaurolophus named Dweeb appear as one of the character of movie which is sent into the 21st century to meet children who wanted to see a real dinosaur.
Inaccuracies Dweeb the Parasaurolophus is shown in We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story as walking on his hind legs, but real Parasaurolophus like all hadrosaurs were more comfortable on all fours and their fingers were embedded in muscle and fat and their hands were fused into hoof-like structures.
The Magic School Bus[]
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Theodore Rex (1995)[]
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T-Rex: Back To The Cretaceous (1998)[]
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Disney Dinosaur (2000)[]
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Role Parasaurolophus are seen as members of the surviving herd of dinosaurs led by Kron the Iguanodon.
Inaccuracies While they are correctly shown as quadrupeds, they have a tiny skin frill underneath their crests.
Sky Monsters (2005)[]
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Prehistoric Park (2006)[]
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More than a Parasaurolophus it is shown in prehistoric Texas, as coveted prey by both Albertosaurus and Deinosuchus where they are the apex predators.
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The Parasaurolophus in Prehistoric Park are shown as by bipedal, unlike the real animal, which was quadruped for most of the time and only switched to its hind legs when pursued by predators or feeding on tall vegetation. Their fingers were also embedded in skin and were fused into a structure similar to hooves.
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Deinosuchus hunting a Parasaurolophus
Sky Monsters (2006)[]
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Dinosaur King (2008)[]
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Role Paris a female of Parasurolophus (called parasuro in the series) is one of the main dinosaurs who fights together with Chomp and Ace against the Alpha gang in the first season and then in the second with aliens.
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Bizarre Dinosaurs (2009)[]
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Role In this series two phus appear as one of the many dinosaur species on which paleontologists have conducted numerous researches and reconstructions in some advanced technology laboratories to recreate the characteristics of this animal.
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Dinosaur Train (2009-2020)[]
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Clash of the Dinosaurs (2009)[]
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Role An herd of Parasurolophus appears in this series where he was shown how he used his bony crest with which he could sense the threat of a predator from miles away.
Inaccuracies Parasaurolophus could not use ultrasound defensively.
Prehistoric (2010)[]
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The design is beige in color without a dorsal sail with its duck beak.
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The Parasaurolophus in the documentary lives 80 million years ago, a more exact date would have been 75 million years ago, it did not live with Albertosaurus but with Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus lives. It does not have the dorsal sail that it had in reality where its crest fit. Hadrosaurs had hooves and did not gallop, but rather ran on 2 legs.
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A herd of Parasaurolophus live in front of a beach, then an Albertosaurus appears and chases them. One gets killed with a bite to the neck and devoured on the beach.
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Sea Rex (2010)[]
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Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2010)[]
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Role An herd of Charonosaurus (Parasaurolophus model) he is shown drinking near a pool of water even before suffering the clamor caused by the impact of the asteroid.
Inaccuracies The Parasaurolophus model was used for Charonosaurus even though the legs of Charonosaurus were shorter than those of Parasaurolophus.
David Attenburogh's Flying Monsters (2011)[]
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Ancient Earth (Season 1 2017)[]
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Gigantosaurus TV Series (2019-2022)[]
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Dino Hunters (2020)[]
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The model is a stock one from Turbo Squid.
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- The model has plantigrade feet.
- The back is to arched.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020-2022)[]
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Dinosauria (2021-2022)[]
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Sauria (David Armsby) (2023-2024)[]
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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024)[]
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